Primal
Breaking the fast for one post before the New Year: Primal, Mark Batterson I wanted to hate it. I really did. Just a page or two into the introduction, and I was convinced Primal wouldn’t be any different than any…
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Review: The Expanded Bible
How do you review The Bible? Really, you can’t review the text itself. You can review how it was written and the style, but not the content. Thomas Nelson released The [Expanded] Bible this summer with praise from John Ortberg.…
Caring for the Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell tells stories. And he tells stories well. Lots and lots of stories. That is the premise of his writing style, drawing the reader along his journey to discovery. Discovery, in this case, is the phenomenon of outliers, those…
NYWC Nashville: Catching Up
With $14/day internet in the hotel, the local Panera has become my local haven this week. It’s been a whirlwind 48 hours here in Nash-vegas, but a great time. Showed up Tuesday afternoon and started stuffing NYWC books with Melissa…
monday (wednesday) rundown
the weekend… It’s mid-November, in Virginia. This weekend on our high school mini-retreat I jet skiied, went out on a boat, watched my kids go tubing. It was a blast. Then it turned cold, and it’s around 25 degrees at…
monday, monday, monday.
Well, it’s Tuesday. But Monday was a holiday, so Tuesday is the Monday. the weekend that was: A long drive to Charlotte, obnoxious phone calls, a tough Hokie loss, a night in Wilmington and a tour of EUE/Screen Gem Studio…