Living Above The Norm

The pursuit of a simple truth by an analytical mind.

Entries for the ‘Underdeveloped Thoughts’ Category

When Habits Talk on Your Behalf

In a comment to my post on My Experience or The Bible, Peter wrote something that caught my eye – “But is it really possible to interpret Scripture without any sort of tradition.”
Every day I make decisions about how to live my life based on my beliefs. These decisions (often unknowingly, and simply by [...]

Facebook, Fans, Friends, and Family

If I ever want to feel good about myself, all I have to do is log in to Facebook.  Once I’m in, a quick glance to the left and whatever temporal insecurities I may have been facing or whatever loneliness I may have been feeling vanish immediately… After all, I have nearly 700 friends.  Who [...]

When It’s Time to Delete Instead of Catch Up

Needless to say, it’s been a crazy few months.  With the addition of my son to our family back in August, our schedules have been completely turned up-side-down.  Don’t get me wrong, I love my new schedule and the numerous opportunities throughout my day to spend playing with my now 12-week old son are precious [...]

When You Budget the Way You Diet

Kathryn at Million Dollar Journey wrote an interesting article comparing the most common types of budgets.  I’ll save you the recap, just make the jump to her link above to see the differences.
What she did write that caught my eye was her comparison of budgeting to diets.  She writes, “Only you know yourself well enough [...]

Why This Is Harder Than You Thought

Procrastination can be a tough thing to overcome, especially when it comes to our spiritual life.  After all, we have time to fix that, right?  Or better yet, “I’ve got some other things I need to get right before I deal with that.“  What’s worse is that often times when we do start to address [...]

How to Surrender Your Dreams

Yet again, another thought provoking image from Someone Once Told Me.
This time, it reads, “Never Surrender Your Dreams.”
Then I asked myself, “OK. So why then are you gambling?!?”
It’s Had Me Thinking
In his new book, The Principle of the Path, @andystanley teaches that its your direction, not your intention that determines your destination. In other [...]

Even These Guys Face Temptation

Recently, our Life Group has been following Pause, a Series that @andystanley did at Northpoint Church a while back. It’s great stuff. It’s been great talking about how each of us handles temptations in different ways and it has been reassuring at times to learn that other people deal with the same temptations [...]

The Top 100 Church Blogs

Can you say Blog Buffet? It can be a daunting task to comb through the internet looking for good, inspiring information to digest on a regular basis. If you’re like me, you’ve succumbed to the Google way of doing things. I use Google for nearly 90% of my internet searches. When I [...]

Using Twitter and Facebook to Listen with Your Eyes

There’s a big debate in the Twitter-sphere and Facebook world. It’s essentially the same question in two different vernaculars. “Do I have to follow everyone that follows me?” In short, no you don’t. I do, and some. I’d like to take a moment to tell you why in hopes that [...]

One Sided iPhone vs. BlackBerry Debate

Chances are, your ministry or business uses either iPhones or BlackBerry’s on a daily basis.  Depending on which, I thought you might find this either interesting or offending.  Either way, I enjoyed the read.  This post comes courtesy of another post that I read detailing BlackBerry’s 26 Advantages Over iPhone.  Yeah, I know what you’re [...]