Archive for January, 2008



Off to Chicago

I am heading out to TEDS for Acts 29 Coaches Training today. I will try to blog a bit while I am there but no guarantees. I will be trained how to coach others in this incredibly challenging task of planting churches. A noteworthy resource made available to coaching candidates is Coachnet. Check it out. […]

State Of The Union Drinking Game 2008

Stolen utterly completely, but full of laughs and worth sharing.
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President George W. (Dubya) Bush will be delivering his State of the Union Address this Monday Night, January 28th, 2008 at 9pm EST.Unlike last year, there is some cause for celebration as this will be the last address Dubya will deliver as President. […]

I predicted a few months ago that November 2007 might see an inverted Sold/Not Sold ratio in the Austin real estate market, that being a situation where more of the listings in the Austin MLS fail to sell than do sell.
I was wrong about November but it did happen in December. For December 2007 […]

On Skiing

Total, after this week, I have skied six or seven days in three places (Steamboat, Breckenridge, Park City) all in the last 5 years. I am therefore what you would consider an expert. So here’s a few observations I made:

Falling is fun. It is rather hilarious to fall in snow. As long as you’re careful, […]

It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Guess who’s making a comeback?

Oh I’m going to that tour!

God & Politics

Tonight the PBS NOW program focused on God and Politics in 2008. Surprisingly, this piece was even-handed, demonstrating both the socially progressive and politically charged expressions of faith in Evangelicalism. Pastors from across Kansas were interviewed, revealing disturbing to encouraging stances on the role of faith and politics. An interesting quote (as best as I […]

Friday Fives #30

Skipping the links for the round. Click here for details.

Five Celebrities We’ve Seen At Sundance:

Rachel Dratch
Matthew Perry
Quentin Tarantino
Damian Lewis
Graham Colton

We only went out once so far besides skiing, so there might be more to follow.

Google is opening shop in a Downtown Austin historical building. This is great news for Downtown Austin in many ways, not the least of which is the positive buzz created by Google’s move. Google brings with it a certain degree of “brand” buzz that will surely attract even more tech companies to downtown Austin.
There are […]

Pastoral Accountability & Qualifications

If interested, see the post over at Church Planting Novice.

I’ve been showing and previewing a lot of property lately - probably more than a hundred homes in the past week. After showing a home and syncing the MLS key each night, the lockbox owners (listing agents) are notified electronically that the lockbox was opened by my key. This normally results in what we […]