Tag: Life

How I Harnessed the Wind

Posted 19 Oct 2009 in Leadership,Life,Social Justice

This is an incredible story. What have you dreamed about doing lately?

A Chilling Irony

Posted 07 Oct 2009 in Life,Reading

Don’t know how I missed this one in July, but in talking with my Dad this morning he told me of the recent controversy of Amazon deleting illegal copies of the book 1984 from user’s Kindles. The irony of this story, to any who have read this book, is so unbelievable that I’m amazed I’m seeing this on verified news agencies and not in Hollywood. Click here to read the article. Here is my favorite quotes from it: “‘Of all…

Short Term Memory

Posted 17 Aug 2009 in Family,Life

As I’ve watched Gavin grow and develop over the last nine months, I’ve come to a shocking realization: adults could never be babies. Let me explain. I don’t know what the first memory that you have is. I’m not counting what you’ve seen on home movies or in pictures, but what you can actually remember yourself. Most of us start at a few years old and anything beyond that is left up to our parents’ memories. So I guess you…

Competitive Fitness

Posted 23 Jul 2009 in Life

I started going to a gym about a week and a half ago called Competitive Fitness. It is in Chandler and it has a unique approach to helping you get in shape. Every membership comes with personal training. The gym isn’t filled with a bunch of machines like your typical gym because the idea isn’t that you go in for a bit and work out by yourself. Instead, there is one workout a day that everybody does, and then they…

A Week Unlike Any Other

Posted 25 Mar 2009 in Church,Leadership,Life

As many of you know by now, Central finally reached the point where we needed to let some of our staff go as a result of the economy. I’ve never experienced anything like this personally, and I haven’t even met a person in leadership who has. For me, it makes sense logically of what had to be done, but the emotions of it are difficult to push through. I have been so encouraged by the response of our staff through…