January 2012
6 posts
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions...”
– John Adams
“Some people say, “Give the customers what they want.” But that’s not my...”
– Steve Jobs
“Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to...”
– Jonathan Ive
“Deciding what NOT to do is as important as deciding what to do.”
– Steve Jobs
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
December 2011
3 posts
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
WatchMy first Sunday Morning to share @HarvestTime! Let me know what you think… :)
November 2011
2 posts
“The secret call means the good testimony of our heart, that we undertake the...”
– John Calvin
October 2011
5 posts
“Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional.”
– Mark Sanborn
“The gospel is a whole-life-of-Jesus story, not just a reduction of the life to...”
– Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel [Emphasis added]
Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at Stanford in 2005
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed...
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at...”
– Steve Jobs, The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993
“The gospel doesn’t work for spectators; you have to participate for it to...”
– Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel
September 2011
3 posts
4 tags
1 tag
Strategy
Change has a tendency to sneak up on you even when you’re expecting it. We can plan and plan and plan but ultimately all we can do many times is roll with the punches. Lately I’ve been focusing a lot on how I can help people move from where they are (spiritually) to where they want to be (spiritually). I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about and creating systems. Systems...
August 2011
2 posts
Pancakes
My Great-Grandmother was an amazing cook. For all of my friends who constantly ask me… I wanted to post her simple yet AMAZING recipe for Swedish Pancakes here.
4 Eggs
2 Cups of Milk
1.5 Cups of Flour
.5 Cup of Sugar
.25 Cup of Margarine (Melted)
Blend until there are no lumps and pour the batter into a non-stick pan to cook.
Enjoy:)
July 2011
6 posts
Fields
“Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.” (Jn 4:35)
Do you see them? I say them because “them” is the harvest. Not a literal harvest but real people (many of whom we know and love) that need a REAL Savior. If you DO see them… pray.
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to...
WatchFinley riding her Rody donkey. (I laughed at the end:))
“I’m not saying we never have people walk out the back door. Of course we...”
– Larry Osborne
WatchFinley enjoying her first birthday.
June 2011
1 post
“To a worm in a horseradish, the world is a horseradish.”
– Malcolm Gladwell
May 2011
7 posts
“If your project doesn’t have movement, then compared to the rest of the...”
– Seth Godin
“The bathroom is a creepy place for pictures of your friends.”
– 238
“Mediocre is beyond reproach, deniable, tested, reviewed, sure-to-please pablum....”
– Seth Godin, Graceful
“Be a raving fan publicly. Be an honest critic privately.”
– Andy Stanley
“If we get better, then our customers will demand that we get bigger.”
– Truett Cathy, Chick-Fil-A Founder
“Leadership is power. You can choose to empower or overpower others. An...”
– Jeremie Kubicek
April 2011
4 posts
“A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who...”
– Bill Johnson
“We must not make cheap what cost God everything.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“It offends me that so many people who dislike smut are getting it shoved in...”
– Gil Reavil, Writer for Penthouse & Maxim (after having a daughter)
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
– GENERAL ERIC SHINSEKI, CHIEF OF STAFF, U.S. ARMY, RETIRED
February 2011
7 posts
January 2011
1 post
October 2010
1 post
“Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to...”
– Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall
September 2010
2 posts
Stories My Friends Have Heard a Thousand Times...
PART 1:
I have a serious heart for missions. I actually spent 3 years as a missionary in Copenhagen, Denmark - it was amazing. Before that I had multiple opportunities to go on some short term mission trips. (If you’ve never been on one, they are life changing.) My first overseas experience was to a country in Asia. I am leaving out the name of the country because of the secrecy required...