Have You Heard of Kiva Yet?

Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.
The people you see on Kiva’s site are real individuals in need of funding – not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs’ profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you [...]

LOST Weekly Screening Commercial

There are theaters here in Austin called The Alamo Drafthouse that are – well, they’re “Austin cool”.  They show new movies, old movies, weird movies, and have weekly live screenings of LOST, along with other shows, concerts and sporting events.  You can also order food and eat right in your seat during the movie (and [...]

Tim Hughes on Effectiveness in Worship Leading

This is from Tim Hughes’ (writer of “Beautiful One”, “Here I Am to Worship”) session at the WorshipTogether.com LIVE tour, in Oklahoma City on March 28th, on being a more effective worship leader. He said there are six questions that are beneficial to ask:
In Preparing to Lead:
1. Where are we leading them to?
* Find a [...]

C.J. Mahaney On Parenting

“As I understand it, parenting is about preparation.  Preparation for our children’s future and preparation for the fast-approaching final day of judgment.  If you are a father or mother, let me ask you: How’s the preparation going?  What is your plan for preparing your child?  What are the content and goals of your preparation?  What [...]

18 Tricks to Memorize More Scripture

Another one of my goals for 2009 is to be more intentional about memorizing Scripture.  Most of us have a much better memory than we give ourselves credit for (how many phone numbers and song lyrics do you know by memory?)  In this article, Demian Farnworth offers 18 tips on memorizing Scripture; some are “no-brainers”, [...]

The Prodigal’s Suspicion

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.
1 John 3:1
“No doubt, at first, the prodigal boy did not believe what was happening. There was his father, running, throwing his arms around his wayward child, embracing him, ‘filled with compassion for [...]

The Second Coming is Like Lightning and Vultures

One of my goals for 2009 is to study the main eschatological views, to better understand them and to determine what I “really believe” about the end times.  Currently, I’m reading A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times, by Kim Riddlebarger.  I’m not suggesting that John Piper is an amillenialist, but this post, from [...]