Orphan Advocate, Student of Systems, Family Man
Gotta love free so here’s how you get the ESV Bible for your iPhone or iPod Touch:
It’s a great way to test out the Kindle app and get the ESV bible free!
Of course you can always just grab a Kindle 2 and not try to read the bible on the small iPhone screen…
an expert from The Divided States of America? by Richard Land
“The conservatives too often assume that God is on America’s side, making patriotism idolatrous and the country and idol…Liberals too often don’t believe it matter whether God has a side in public policy debates, or they believe such questions are disqualified from consideration by a supposed constitutional mandate of church-state serparation. That viewpoint makes a particular judicial interpretation or the Constitution an idol.”
Here inlies the deterioration of faith in our country…it does boils down to idolatry. Perhaps even ourselves becoming the object of idolatry in the midst of it all.
So, some hackers changed a road sign in Texas, but you gotta admit, there’s some truth to this one on the road.
I’m wondering how many morning commuters took this personally…prophetic perhaps.
Will you find some common ground?
2008 Unicef Photo of the Year
Surviving in Haiti
What say you?
“The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go.”
~ Dr. Seuss ~
I just got my Catalyst Filter box the other day and I’m excited to start reading them. I must say, the love of reading broadens your mind, keeps yourself in perspective (in humility), and encourages your heart to keep growing. Someone once told me, “becareful of the man who does not like to read.”
I’m first reading Run with the Bulls Without Getting Trampled by Tim Irwin and Life Giving Mentors by Tim Elmore.
What are you reading?
Things are changing fast to say the least. Our country is changing fast. Technology is changing fast. Communication is changing fast. Information is changing fast. Are people changing fast? Should they? I don’t think it’s possible to keep up with change (for whatever that means). So what do we do? I know what we can’t do. We can’t live in the future and we can’t dwell in the past. If we do, we won’t keep up with the present.
Some people have one foot in the future and one foot in the past and they’re just pissing on the present.
I recently got to listen to Jim Collins talk about being Good to Great. One of the things that I took away was that he encouraged people to have a personal board of directors. You need people in your personal circle that can guide you, instill wisdom in you, correct you, keep you focused, and to encourage you. Businesses get this at the corporate level. There are a board of directors that keep the leadership and direction of a company on the right track. Collins’ makes a great point that the same is required at the personal level.
An easy exercise: write down those in your personal circle. Perhaps you’ve got some “vacant seats on your bus” (as Collins would say)
Yea, so I am a Georgia Tech alumni, but this video of Mark Richt is undeniably touching, real, and full of truth.
My wife and I will be starting our adoption process early next year and will be an exciting time in our lives…
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” – James 1:27