Living Above The Norm

Ever heard the phrase, “Picking the lesser of two evils?” This is a little different. I’m sure if I were to ask you to list your various roles and relationships in order of importance or priority each of you could give me some very good answers with little thought. It would likely start [...]

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 [...]

I love free stuff.  As a matter of fact, the only thing better than free stuff is free, useful stuff.  Don’t you agree?  I recently came across this plethora (Haha, Three Amigos) of resources from CustomGuide.
I’m one of those guys that loves keyboard shortcuts.  It started back in the day when I used to work [...]

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 [...]

I recently came across a pretty cool site, Someone Once Told Me So.  Every day, give or take, they post a picture of someone holding a quote.  The premise is this, “Someone once told me… [then they fill in the blank]“.  I’ve subscribed to the RSS feed so I don’t have to keep going back [...]

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 [...]

Willow Creek’s founding and senior pastor Bill Hybels once said, “The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.” I couldn’t agree more. I believe that idea could be restated this way: the world depends on the participation of the local church [...]