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Pause

We continued in our "On the Run" series with a message entitled "Pause."

Miles are achieved on the run, but direction and meaning in our lives are determined in the pause.

To hear the sermon you can click here to download the podcast from iTunes or click here to download it or listen online from our church website.

7 Years

7/15/07 -7 years ago this day I married Rebecca; the love of my life. Let's face it, I hit the jackpot!

Move over Milan!

A few weeks ago I mentioned that our 1st Calvary t-shirts were on the way. Well, they've arrived! So for the low price of $11 each you can own an original Calvary Fellowship t-shirt in black, cedar or sapphire.

This time the revolution will be fashionable!

You can feel safe allowing your children to read my blog

Apparently my blog is rated G:

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• dead (1x)

I read about this rating system from Dan Kimball, whose blog is rated R.

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Sweetly Broken

This was the closing song at our service this past weekend. What a powerful song!

You Can Run...

We begin our new series On the Run this past weekend with a message entitled "You Can Run..."

As Jonah discovered, you can run from God, but you cannot outrun God. And when God comes after us it is to get us back, not to pay us back.

To hear the sermon you can click here to download the podcast from iTunes or click here to download it or listen online from our church website.

7/7/7

Well this unique date of 7/7/7 is here today (777 representing the # of God and the Trinity). In honor of this special day, I'd like to give props to the band that brought awareness of 777 to me by posting this video of them in their heyday (yes, there was a time when this was VERY cool!).

btw: Over 20 years ago I caught a Stryper bible at one of their shows (yeah, I know you're envious).

Great quote on vision

"A vision without a task is but a dream,
a task without a vision is drudgery,
a vision and a task is the hope of the world."
-From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730

(I got this from the book I reviewed yesterday.)

Getting Things Done

I just finished reading "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. It was fantastic! Not in a pager-turner, edge-of-your-seat type of way, but in a very practical, helpful, value added way.

The author asserts that most of us are completely stressed out and confused about our workload because we keep too many things in our heads and in our inboxes that are simply unprocessed stuff. These things pop in and out of our minds to haunt us and to hinder us from experiencing "stress-free productivity."

He then goes on to describe a detailed system for processing our stuff into manageable tasks and projects. When followed these steps have the power to free our minds from the constant "lower-level thinking" so that we can reserve our brains' firepower for truly important things. None of the steps are complicated, yet none are regularly taken by most people.

You always hear the cliche "work smarter, not harder." This is the book you should get if you want to really figure out how to do that.

Happy Independence Day!

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