A Splash of Brightness at My Living Canvas

I have finally come to grips with a reality I have long fought to admit:  I can only keep up with one blog!
If I didn’t have a full-time job I might be able to better manage my multi-tasking blogging capabilities but I confess that for now this blog will have to be it.  It [...]

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Spiritual Heroes

{Repost from my Daily Bright Side blog}
So the daily bright side blog has been a bit silent over the past week. Well, please do not think we are already out of business. There is still plenty of bright side to go around! The bright side of silence, at least here on this [...]

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The Bright Side of Monday: Frontline Arlington

I go to church on Mondays. This is really good for me because I work at a church. Going to church on Mondays lets me have a day off on Sunday. It also lets me worship in a different building than the one where I go to work each day. But the best part about [...]

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What could the Church learn from Facebook?

I was recently in a meeting where a top leader at my church made a very interesting comment:
“Our congregation is probably a lot larger than we think.  If the average church-goer attends twice a month, our numbers could be double what we think they are.”
Another top leader made a similar comment:
“If everyone on the [...]

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Is Life Meaningless?

I have spent some time in Ecclesiastes lately and have been wondering, is it true that there isn’t anything new under the sun?  Is all the flurry of activity in life, particularly in my own life, meaningless vanity?
I am wondering if the things that fill my life are placed there by me or placed there [...]

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Book Review: “Fearless” by Max Lucado

In a time in History where people have many things to fear, Max Lucado delivers a dose of wise counsel and biblical truth to help treat fear at its root. While Fearless deals with specific fears fueled by headlines in the local papers(such as terrorism and the global economic crisis), it also deals with [...]

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Book Review: “The Noticer” by Andy Andrews

Sometimes, All A Person Needs Is A Little Perspective
Have you ever read a book that was just what you needed at just the time you needed it?  Well for me, this weekend, that book was “The Noticer” by Andy Andrews.
Work has been really hectic and stressful the past several weeks.  I have been so focused [...]

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The Bright Side of Monday

Last night at Frontline Arlington was amazing!  So much so that it was my Bright Side of Monday.  Check it out!  I even have a video for it that I shot with Brian’s new Iphone 3GS!
http://dailybrightside.wordpress.com
The Last 3 weeks of sermons at Frontline have been off the hook.  Come out to one of the campuses [...]

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The Unlikely Disciple

My most recent read, (aside from rereading the last 2 books of the Harry Potter Series) is The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose.
This is an intriguing memoir of a young freshman at Brown University who, in 2007, after a visit to Thomas Road Baptist Church, decided to go “undercover” at Liberty University for what he [...]

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15 dollars can do more than save a life in Eburru

Now that Jeff is back from Kenya, I have compiled all his videos and photos on my computer and came out with the first of I’m sure several videos of whats going on in Eburru.  This video shows, at a very high level excatly whats going on in Eburru, a few interviews with the in [...]

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