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  • Brennan Manning

    Brennan Manning will be at Spirit West Coast in Monterey August 3-5. That may be worth the trip. Whenever I feel like a Ragamuffin, I just read a few pages of one of his books. His message board has moved to a new server. There is a great deal of honest, gut-wrenching, and encouraging conversation…

  • A Treat for Avid Philip Yancey Readers

    I recomend one of Philip Yancey’s Best books under my Recomended Reading because it crossed my mind just this week. It is Soul Survivor – How My Faith Survived the Church. Yancey surveys the lives and works of some of his very public heroes and reflects on why their lives helped solidify his personal faith.…

  • Some Updated Blog Snippets

    From the Shoestring Conspiracy: Our shoes are on our feet and ready to be tied. We are somewhere between desparately late and deeply enthused about what is to come of our days. The last thing we want to do is spend one more moment than necessary in the mundane tasks of tying strings or or…

  • Returned from Camp

    I have returned from camp and I am sitting in my office at 9:30 P.M. trying to catch up on a week’s work. But it has been worth it. I had 14 calls on my  cell phone with messages – after I left a message that I could not retrieve any messages – patient folks…

  • Camp

    It is time for camp again. I’ll be leaving in a few minutes for Camp Sierra for the Mid Valley Baptist Chidlren’s Camp. Our theme this year is SPY Camp and it is sort of a fun thing. I’ll be eating more carbs than I ought and walking some of them off. One thing I…

  • My Dad, the Salesman

    Dad excelled in the sales profession. I am not sure what techniques he learned or practiced through the years to close a deal. I just know what I observed. It wasn’t the product that intrigued him although he never sold a product in which he could not believe for any company that would not keep…

  • Fatherhood

    “He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care “                     – William Penn Not just those who live on little, but each of us is the beneficiary of someone’s…

  • Business Ethics?

    Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them. – Psalm 62:10 John Maxwell wrote, "There’s No Such Thing as Business Ethics" and intentionally gave it a title that needed explanation. From the verse above, it looks like Solomon learned a thing…

  • Joining Frenzy

    Lately I’ve been playing catch-up. I’ve been joining every free online community that I run across and starting blogs all over the place. Most of it is to learn what is available. If I am going to be a resource to my friends, I have to make wise recomendations. I joined MySpace, but I still…

  • Cravings or Desires

    I read a chapter in Proverbs most every day corresponding to the day of the month. I've been doing this for quite a while an have failed to exhaust all the insights that pop out of the page, grab me around the neck and shake the living daylights out of me. Solomon was a successful…