What Prayer Should Look Like

Yesterday, I was watching my friend Jerad hold his newborn baby girl. There was this really, really cool moment when I caught him just watching her. She wasn’t talking, smiling, crying, or doing anything to demand his attention. In fact… she was asleep! She was just… there! And he couldn’t take his eyes off of [...]

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SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!

Growing up, Gomer Pyle was one of my favorite TV characters. Maybe it was the fact that he was a Marine like my dad. Maybe it was seeing someone with a familiar accent on television. Probably though, it was Gomer’s ‘aw-shucks’ approach to life that allowed him to roll with the unexpected events of life! [...]

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They’re back… again…

and we’re so happy… again. This is the ONLY sitcom we watch at our house and overall we thoroughly enjoy it. However, we hope they return to Season 2 form, which in my opinion is one of the greatest seasons for sitcoms ever. Favorite episodes include: The Christmas Party (“She loves me an OVEN MIT’S [...]

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Dreaming With Your Eyes Open

Erwin McManus is one of my favorite authors, and I just started his most recent book, Wide Awake, over the weekend. It’s one of those books that has hit me in the right place at the right time. It’s all about dreaming with your eyes open and discovering the future that is waiting within you. [...]

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Glubble – Where Families Play!

We have a 7 and 4 year old at home, and they’re both becoming more computer savvy everyday. For this reason, Evie and I started looking for an internet filtering device recently, and last week we stumbled upon Glubble. Glubble is a Firefox add-on that allows you to customize the internet experience for each person [...]

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You Can Do It – Tony Dungy

For my birthday, my sweet sister-in-law and her family gave me a personalized, autographed copy of Tony Dungy’s new children’s book You Can Do It! Quite honestly, it is my favorite gift this year. Thanks SO much Iris, Gaetan and Rachel! Tonight, I read the book with my kids for the first time. It is [...]

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Declaration – Act of Congress

If you’re a fan of Alison Krauss, Nickel Creek, The Greencards, or The Duhks then go to iTunes right now and download this album – Declaration. Act of Congress, a solid bluegrass band out of Birmingham have put together a great album. I’m a fan of all kinds of music, but mostly I’m a fan [...]

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I’m Not The Boy I Used To Be

Like most boys growing up in the South, I had my share of bodily injuries. At around 11, I busted my finger open on an automatic wood splitter. That hydraulic jack squeezed down onto the tip of my finger and it popped like a zit that had been maturing for a week. When I was [...]

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Enjoy the Journey

In the movie “Cars” the folks at Pixar teach us that life is a highway and we should enjoy the journey. Lightening McQueen discovers that the trip to the race is often times more important than the race or even the prize. Now I know my mind can’t comprehend the awesomeness of heaven and to [...]

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Microsoft Ropes In Seinfeld

Bill and his boys at Microsoft have roped in Seinfeld in an attempt to bring some ‘coolness’ to their product and compete with the iconic Apple ads. The commercial reminds me of the show Seinfeld in the sense that it is discongruent ramblings from Jerry and is really about nothing. And I must admit I [...]

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