This week’s post is an answer to several questions I received recently about fasting. What is it? How do I go about it? What is the goal? What are the results? Let me start with what fasting is. As Richard Foster puts it in his book Celebration of Discipline, fasting, in the Biblical context, is… Read More The Devotional Life Series – Fasting
There is nothing more gratifying than to hear the words, "well done." It is like putting fuel into a car. It keep us motivated in ways that are hard to understand. Now, I realize that we should not be bound by what other's think about us and that it is dangerous to "need to be… Read More Encouragement Keeps us Going
Original Blog Post from Ethan Zuckerman The crux of Andreas’ time was spent helping the audience understand the power of a story to build general awareness and support for what at times are complex scientific and techonological issues. Here is an excerpt I wanted to share. start with the first three rules: treat… Read More Power of a story (Brian Andreas)
“TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.” This is basically a four-day who’s who event in Long Beach, CA. For instance, Bill Gates spoke tonight and he was just a day one speaker. The crux… Read More TED09 CONFERENCE BEGINS – “What are we waiting for?”
Phelps acknowledges photo showing Olympic swimming star smoking from marijuana pipe – ESPN. I am not about to judge Michael Phelps (although I wish for his sake and ours as well that he would have made a better choice), but this is a classic case for us all to think about. Sure we would stop… Read More Light of Day
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