Inspired by Kenny Conley (as always), and his post “My 2010 Reading List,” I thought I would put together my own reading list for 2010. I love to read, but I tend to go through stages throughout the year. There are months where all I read is my Bible, and there are period where I read insatiably. I usually have many books going at the same time. I hope to accomplish two things by posting it here:
It will help me to organize my thoughts and have a plan for what I intend to read; and
I hope it will help to
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Today is my birthday (yesterday by the time you are reading this). I turned 37 years old. Now, I’m not much of a birthday person. I don’t tend to make a big deal about my birthday, but I started to think about where I am in my life these days. As I started to put two and two together, I realized that this year marks a couple of milestones:
I will have been married 10 years this coming September.
Next year will be my 20th High School reunion.
I graduated from The Ohio University 15 years ago this past June – Go Bobcats!
We
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This is the prayer my two year old says every night before he goes to be. It’s actually kind of a second prayer as his bedtime prayer usually goes something like:
Thank you Jesus for this day. Amen. You Rock. Amen.
I don’t specifically remember teaching it to him. I may have at some point, but he has adopted it as his standard way of ending prayers. And, when he says it, it is always with a smile and a giggle. “You Rock, Amen!” We were saying prayers last night, I was struck by how simple and profound those three words are!
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I was reading a blog article recently from one of my favorite blogs on the ABC’s of salvation. The inspired me to put together this ABC’s of Children’s Ministry. I had to resist the urge to write more for each letter, so you may see future posts about some of these! J
A is for ACTIVE. Many kids learn best when they are ACTIVE.
B is for BOYS. BOYS present some of the greatest challenges and some of the greatest rewards.
C is for CREATIVE. God created us in his image. So, even those of us who are “craft-challenged” are CREATIVE on some
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OK, so during my recap of my Go Dark week (Http://waynestocks.com/2009/07/25/going-dark-the-recap/) I mentioned that I had written a poem during one of my drives to work. OK, I didn’t actually write it during the drive. I came up with it during the drive and wrote it down later. Maybe I never should have mentioned it, but since I did, here it is. I call it:
Someday
God was around before the start of days.
And he created man on the sixth day.
Man sinned and fell on a fateful day.
Then man rejected God for a lot of days.
So, God dwelt amongst them for
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So, I’m done with my “Go Dark” week. “It’s finally over,” or “is it over already?” I guess it depends on your perspective. Either way, I’m all plugged back in now. I’ve been through about 300 e-mails, and I’ve caught back up on facebook and twitter. It’s amazing how little time it actually took to check in on the important things. It makes me wonder why I waste so much time on it. I did notice tonight that I have so many articles waiting in Google Reader that it doesn’t give me the actual number –
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I was driving home this weekend from dropping my eight-year old son off at horse camp. My wife had a baby shower to go to, and she had the other kids with her. So, it was just me and my thoughts. I started to reflect on all the electronic gadgets that we fill our time up with every day. We have TVs in every room, DVD players, IPods, Computers, the Internet, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Newsreaders, Radios. The list goes on and on.
Now, I am not opposed to technology. I rather enjoy it! Sometime though, I wonder if I am letting
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