Last night, Erin asked me what time I was born. She was somewhat shocked that I didn't know. I sort of thought just remembering the day was enough. Dana suggested that knowing the exact time allows you to count down to the actual time you were born and celebrate then.

So, my question is who actually knows the exact time they were born?

Consider this yet another survey. Please respond and let me know when your birthday is, and if you know your "birthtime", post that, too.

Warning: Posting your birthday on this blog may result in you receiving an email from me that says, "Happy Birthday", on the date you enter.

Labels: indiscriminate

Kim and I have read The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman1 and we know many other people who have also read it. I feel like some people treat that book as the fifth gospel, but I've never really connected with it.

I think he makes some good points about people feeling loved through different "languages". I have just never found any one of the "languages" he illustrates that accurately describes what makes me feel loved.

I'm not the most emotionally connected person. So, it's not like I the answer that Chapman was missing. It has always been difficult for me to put a finger on what it is that makes me feel loved. Taking from the book, it's sort of "Acts of Service, it's sort of "Quality Time", and it's sort of "Gifts".

All that said, last night something happened that made me feel more loved than I have in a long time. For those that subscribe to the gospel of Gary, my love tank was filled.

Last night Kim and I made a stop between Chipotle and home. We stopped by the home of another SAS employee to check out a refrigerator they had posted on our electronic bulletin board. The fridge was only about four years old, but white, and their new kitchen was going to include black appliances. It was a nice fridge and a great deal.2

We drove away from the home where we saw the fridge with the expectation that we would talk it over and let them know our final decision today. On the ride home, we went over the pros and cons of buying it. I admitted that one of my selfish reservations was that if we bought the refrigerator, we would not have the money for me to buy a bike.

It was at this point that my wife blew me away. I know she loves me. I never question that, but I don't know if her love has ever been so apparent as when she said, "I don't want us to buy a new refrigerator until you buy a bike." That might not seem so significant, but I know she would really like to have a nicer refrigerator and the fact that she is not just willing to, but wants to set aside her desires for mine makes me feel loved.

So, the profound "a-ha" moment for me is that I think I have discovered my love language. I think my love language is sacrifice. It makes a lot of sense in relation to how Chapman describes how to figure out what your love language is. He suggests that most people show love in the way that they want to be shown love. I feel like I try to show Kim I love her by setting putting her first a lot the times. It makes sense now that her doing that for me moves me in such a way.

There is something profound in there that points back to my faith. I just don't have to expound on it, right now. Plus, this has gotten pretty long. If you made it this far, thanks for accompanying me on the journey.

In conclusion, my wife is amazing. I am blessed to have her. I love you schnucky-bumpkins, sweetie-pie, post-it note, pumpkin'!3

1. back I was unaware that there was a "Men's Edition". Has anyone read that?


2. back Kim and I have been talking about buying a new fridge since moving into our house about a year and half ago. We've even saved money dedicated to buying a new fridge. So, this was a great opportunity.


3. back Like I said, I'm not very emotionally connected. I can't say all these heartfelt things without making a joke. We'll call that a defense mechanism.

Labels: family

I'm looking for opinions here.

I'm in the market for a bicycle. I've actually been window shopping for a bicycle for about two years. Now, I am actually thinking about spending the money to buy a bike to call my own.

I want a road bike. I want to be able to use the bike in triathlons and charity rides, but more importantly, I want to have the bike to use as transportation around town.

The two main places I have been looking are on craigslist for a used bike and at Cycling Spoken Here for a new bike.

I've heard varying opinions about buying a new bike versus buying a used bike and I thought I would see if there were any more opinions out there that I had not yet heard.

So, let me know what you think.

Labels: questions, sports

Today was my birthday. In general, I don't get excited about birthdays, but today, birthday or not, was a really good day.

I think it all started on Wednesday night1. I went to bed at a decent time. Before going to sleep, I read a little. Then, I had a good conversation with my wife. Then, I turned out the light and went to sleep while it was still Wednesday, i.e. before midnight2.

I have decided to start waking up earlier3 in an attempt to spend more time with Palmer, which in turn helps my wife get her day off on the right foot4. So, I got up right when the alarm went off. Kim, who was not super excited about the idea of the radio blaring at 7:15AM, wasn't fazed. She didn't even know the alarm had went off.

I got up, checked my email, listened to an Andy Stanley podcast and did some reading. I wanted to fit in some blogging, but there just wasn't time. Then, I got Palmer up, I fed him, changed him, and got him dressed for his day. I then passed Palmer off to mommy, hopped in the shower, and shortly after, headed off to work.

Work was work. Nothing super exciting happened there. I did go to lunch with some guys and they all chipped and paid for mine, which was nice.

After work I came home for a few minutes before we jumped back in the car to head out to dinner. In the short time I was at home, I got a card from Kim's parents (Thanks for the gift card!) and a gift from Kim. Did I mention that my wife is awesome?

Kim knows I am not into birthdays, but she is, so she got me a gift anyhow. She made me this great card, one because she is creative and does things like that and two because she knows that I am not a fan of paying $3-4 for a piece of paper, i.e. a card.

The gift she got me was white undershirts and socks. I need the socks, the ones I have are well past their prime, and I tell Kim that the undershirts I have are "broken in", but she just sees them as holey. So, now, I have some non-holey undershirts and some new socks. She also included two get out of jail, I mean... the house, free cards.

She created these two gift cards that are each redeemable for a round of golf whenever I want. I've been telling her that I want to get out and play some golf, but that I feel bad leaving her with Palmer for five hours while I am out chasing a little white ball into the woods. She's great.

For dinner, we invited all of our friends to meet us at Chipotle. We ended up with about nineteen people there. It was great food mixed with great company.

After dinner, Kim and I came home, got Palmer in the bad and then snuggled up on the couch to watch Lost and the Biggest Loser. Then, we headed off to bed, again at a decent time.

It was a really good day. Thanks to everyone that took part in it.

1. back I once read that the Jews look at the time you go to bed as the start of your day. That's why their fasts last from sundown to sundown and not sunup to sunup. The idea is that the sleep you get the night before has a huge effect on your day ahead.


2. back "Before midnight" may not sound like a "decent time" to you, but it's a rare occasion when I lay down to go to sleep before midnight.


3. back I used to not set my alarm and I let Palmer be the alarm, but he must have had the same kind of idea because neither one of us have been waking up before 8AM. The new plan is to set the alarm for 7:15AM.


4. back ...or left, which ever is a good one that day.

Labels: indiscriminate

While carpooling in traffic, you have time to take in a lot of observations. Recently, I have started noticing the different ways in which people use their turn signals. I'm sure they could be described better, but here are the two main ways I see turn signs used in traffic...

1. "By the way, I'm coming over."
   These are the people that when they are ready to move over, they see a gap in the other lane, and as they merge, they throw on their turn signal as to say, "By the way, I'm coming over." These people can be seen checking their blind spot every half second as they prepare to make their move. Then, they either speed up or hit the brakes to get their car in line with the gap and when the space is there, they move in for the kill, throwing their turn signal on as an after thought. This is generally followed by a courtesy hand wave that to me says, "Please forgive me."


2. "I'd like to come over, please."
   These are the people that know they want to get over, so they put on their signal well in advance of when they are actually merging, and wait for the people in the other lane to back off and make room. These people may even slow down a little to let other cars pass them as they wait for the person that is going to make room for them to move over. Once in the new lane, this person will also gives the courtesy hand wave, but this time it is to say "Thank you." At some point, soon after merging, this person will turn off their signal.

These are definitely over simplifications, but they cover a lot of people. I know this because I have ridden with many of you.

Now, I'd like to perform a very non-scientific experiment1. I'd like you all to respond and declare your allegiance to the group you feel best represents you on the road.

So, which are you?

1. back After a few days I'll follow up with the findings. I work at an analytics company, this is what we are known for. Well, analytics and intramural sports.

Labels: indiscriminate

Can you really lose your voice, if you don't know how to talk?

Palmer has been coughing and crying so much that he has lost his "voice". He still makes sounds, but he has lost his upper octaves. If you've never noticed before, babies make a lot of different noises, most of which are high-pitched. Well, now every noise Palmer makes reminds me of Amanda Overmeyer.

Here's a little clip of "Sick Palmer":

Labels: baby, family

Palmer woke up around 4AM on Saturday. Kim was sick all week and by the end of the week, Palmer had caught the bug. He woke up coughing and the coughing led to crying. I tried propping him up, so as to allow the sinus drainage to drain down his throat and not sit in his sinuses. Unfortunately, they are not selling infant cold medicine any more. So, this is the only advice our pediatrician had for us.

Well doc, that didn't work early Saturday morning. I ended up having Palmer sleep in the bed with me where I could prop him him on pillows and hold him close to comfort him when he would start crying. This is something "they" say you shouldn't do, but Palmer and I both survived and got a little sleep, too.

Saturday morning, after some breakfast, Palmer and I headed to the gym for some basketball. I brought the pack-n-play along to contain Palmer, as he is becoming more mobile. I can't say that he was happy about being there, but he did okay. The guys joked about my parenting when I put the pack-n-play in the office and turned out the light, but it was time for a nap.

After basketball, we came home and we both took a needed nap. Palmer slept for three hours, but I only slept for about one. While he was sleeping, I took the time to paint the ceiling in our downstairs bathroom, one of the many items on my "honey do" list.

Saturday night, Palmer, Jeramie, and I went over to Mike Baumann's house to hang out since his wife, Amanda, had gone out of town for the weekend, too. Mike had made some of his award winning chili and wanted us to come help him eat it. The chili was awesome. It really was award winning. He said he won the "people's choice" award at a chili cook off last year.

After chili, we decided to play a game of Risk. NOTE: Risk takes a long time to play. We ended up quitting the game at midnight with no clear winner. It was a lot of fun, but it was time to go home.

Palmer slept and coughed again in my bed on Saturday night. However, there was more coughing than sleeping.

Labels: indiscriminate

Last night, we happened to catch a segment on 20/20 titled 'What would you do?' The segment featured two parts. In the first part, there were three white kids vandalizing a car in the parking lot of a park in a primarily white neighborhood. The second part substituted the three white kids for three black kids.

ABC sent each group of kids out there with spray paint, a bat, and a "slim jim". They beat on the car, they painted all over the car and they attempted to break into it. The point was to see how the other people in the park reacted, to see what they would do.

It turns out that the three white kids were out there for over three hours. In that time span, they were only confronted a few times and only one person called 911.

When the white kids were replaced by three black kids and a new car to vandalize, they drew a lot more attention. Several people confronted them and ten people called 911 in less time.

When asked if they would have reacted the same way if the kids were white, the people who had confronted the black kids whom ABC spoke with afterwards all said yes. Some even said they "hesitated" more because the kids were black. Hmm... seems like the data doesn't back up that claim.

Here's the worst part... while the white kids were vandalizing the car, one person called 911. During that same time, two other 911 calls were placed from the same park. Coincidentally, there was another set of three black kids in car in another parking lot at that park. Two 911 calls were placed referencing the kids in the car. One 911 caller said, "There's a couple of guys in the car laying down, like, they look like they are possibly about to rob someone."

These kids were SLEEPING. Later it was revealed that the sleeping kids were family members of one of the actors from the second group, i.e. the black kids. Justin, the actor related to the sleeping bandits, said something like "I guess they called 911 to have them arrested for sleeping while black."

It was an eye-opening piece. You can read an article about it here. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Labels: injustice, news

Last night Jeramie and Matt Rowe came over to join in with Palmer and me for our guys weekend. We started off with a well rounded meal of some leftover box lunches from Matt's work (Roast Beef and Chicken Salad Sandwiches), a can of soup, a box of Oven Crispy Popcorn Shrimp, and we finished it off with some White Chocolate Macadamia Nut cookies. Who needs vegetables anyway? Palmer did eat come Sweet Potatoes.

Then, we pretty much sat around with the TV on. We made lots of jokes, laughed a lot, and talked about random things. We all have similar humor styles; lots of sarcasm and jabs at one another (typical guy stuff). We did watch Jeopardy to make sure we got some educational television in there. Other than that, Matt caught up on the last two weeks of Lost and we found out who got kicked off American Idol.

The one thing that we watched that was not on the DVR was probably the most entertaining. It was a 20/20 segment titled 'What would you do?'. I'm going to follow up this post with one just on that. So, hold tight.

I put Palmer down for bed around nine, and then our party moved upstairs to the office/den/room where the computer is located. Matt showed us the most recent plans he has found for the house he is going to build after he rips down his current house. We discussed where Kim, Palmer and I would live in this house because he thinks he would need renters to cover part of the mortgage in the beginning. The also discussed a lot of 'green' modifications he could make for this new house, like using a geothermal heat pump.

I guess I should let Kim know that the Rowes are going to live in our extra bedroom while their new house is being built and that we all are going to move into that new house together. NOTE: This is not true... well... at least it's not finalized. If you know Matt Rowe, you know that doesn't commit quickly and saying that he wants to do this and doing it are two different things. Do I think he will rip down his house? Yes. When? Who knows?!?

We had a great time. Matt and Jeramie headed home around mid-night and after watching the Biggest Loser from Tuesday, I went to bed. too.

Labels: indiscriminate

This afternoon my wife is heading down to the beach for a girls weekend. She is getting away for a few days of girl talk, girl movies, and probably toe nail painting. I think it will be great for her.

Her going away for a girls weekend means we get to have a guys weekend at home. Palmer and I will get to hang out all weekend long. I'm really looking forward to it. I think Kim is looking forward to it, too.

We've read most of the book Babyproofing Your Marriage. In the book is suggests that the mom take off every now and then and leave the dad at home with the baby for the weekend. They have some term for it that has a negative connotation, like it's punishment for a dad to have to be a parent. I think they call it a Training Weekend. I am all for the Training Weekend.

I think it's good for everyone involved: mom, dad, and baby. Kim will get some much needed rest. I will get to experience a small sampling of what Kim goes through when I am at work. Palmer will get to see that he can survive without mommy for a few days, hopefully.

I think Kim going away will be good for me especially because I will get to do everything on my own: feeding, changing, bathing, entertaining, crisis avoidance, etc.. I really don't mind it. It's what I signed up for. And, I'm not just talking about this weekend. This is the stuff I signed up for when I decided to become a dad.

Wish us luck.

Labels: family

Tonight, Kim and I went out for dinner at NoFo with a few friends1. This was not your run of the mill Tuesday night on the town for the Smith family. Tonight, NoFo was donating a percentage of their sales to the Alliance of AIDS Services - Carolinas, i.e. AAS-C or "the Alliance".

The Alliance is a local organization that serves people living with HIV/AIDS in the Triangle. Our home group and Visio Dei as a whole have been working with the Alliance for a little over a year now. We provide volunteers that serve in practical ways. We've moved furniture, painted, and hung shelves, among other things. Going out to eat tonight was just another thing we could do to help them out.

They have a few events coming up that I'd like to invite you all to take part in.

The first is on Saturday, March 8, when the Alliance will be hosting their latest installment of Drag Bingo. No. You don't have to dress in drag to come. Though I'm sure they would let you in if you did. The event is hosted by Mary K-Mart and the BVDs. If you follow their links, I'm sure you will be able to figure out where the event gets its name. We plan to attend on March 8. You should come with.

The second event that is coming up is the 2008 AIDS Walk+Ride on Saturday, May 3. I've mentioned it before, and I'll probably mention it again. I'm still looking for people to sign up to walk and ride on our team. We are up to 17 people, but I'm a little disappointed that they are all connected to our home group. It's free to sign up to walk. So, even if it turns out that you can't make it, you haven't lost anything by signing up.

If you know you can't make it to walk or ride, e.g. you live on the other side of the country or planet, you can always participate by donating your hard earned money. I've set a lofty personal goal of raising $1,000. Last year I raised just over $700. So far, I've met 3% of my goal. So, needless to say, I need your help. Help a brotha out. Please consider donating. Every $10 bumps me up 1%.

1. back The Smiths, Bernie, and Jenny

Labels: activism, aids, food

The good folks at NOOMA are about to release another video. The official release date of their nineteenth video, Open, is February 22, but you can see it for free today. You just have to visit the NOOMA Facebook page to check it out.

I'll make it easy for you. Just click here.

ht: Chris Marlow

Labels: church, video

I may be late to the party on this, but craigslist has implemented a "best of" feature. When you are viewing an ad, you can flag it as "Best of Craigslist". If enough people flag the ad, it's listed on the "best of" page. There are some great ads there. A few of my favorites have been: To the person who broke into my car last night and Things I've learned.

Labels: indiscriminate

'ello mum, [I imagine that if Palmer could talk, he'd have an Irish accent.]

This morning, the tall one with the furry face told me that today is Valentine's day. He said that means that I'm supposed to tell you how much you mean to me. Well... that's kind of hard. Let's ignore for a moment the fact that I can't speak your language. Beyond that, it's hard to put into words how much you mean to me.

Let's see... you feed me, clean me, burp me, teach me, sing to me, play with me, read to me, cuddle me, snuggle me, and among other things you put up with my crap, literally. Yeah, without you, I'm pretty much helpless.

I'm sorry that I can't speak your language, yet. I'm trying to get better. You may have noticed that I practice all the time. Thanks for teaching me all those words. I hope that I can get them right soon.

I really want to talk to you. I want to tell you how great of a mom you are. I want to tell you how much I love you. I tried to tell the other one, but he doesn't understand me, either.

Speaking of him, I think you mean a lot to him, too. Not only do you take care of me, but you cook, you clean, you do laundry, and you're always making sure we're taken care of.

He's always telling me to be nice to you. He also tells me that he's proud of you. I'm not sure what that means, but I think he thinks you are doing a good job. I think he likes you.

I like you, too. You're the best mommy I could ever have.

Your favorite son,

palmer


p.s. What's a Valentine's Day?

Labels: family

This post will become the [care] page linked from the main page of my blog. The plan is to update it with the things, events, organizations, etc. that I care about.

Labels: activism

Friday, I took the day off work and it was probably the best day of my life. I know that sounds a bit over dramatic, but it very well could have been. I stayed at home and spent all day with Kim and Palmer. We just hung out at the house. At one point our entire family took a nap. Palmer in his crib and Kim and I on the couch. It was beautiful.

It was the most Sabbath like day I can remember. Palmer was amazing. He was so chill it was scary. He ate when I wanted him to and he slept when I put him down for naps. Kim wondered what had happened to our son that she spends every day with. Between eating and sleeping Palmer played, laughed, and didn't fuss. He even took a crap without getting it all over his clothes.

Saturday morning I left to go skiing with six other guys1. We went up to Ski Beech, which is a little over three hours away. We skied from about one o'clock until nine o'clock. I was surprised that after six years or more away from the slopes, I still had it. Well, I "had it" as much as I ever had. I fell about three times: once after trying to go big off a jump2, once coming off a box, and once right after I sprayed Mike, who had just fallen. That last one was probably karma.

Sunday, we decided to not go skiing because of the weather. It was cold and windy, which makes it seems real cold. Instead, we went on a hike, sort of. We visited what one person described as a rock colony. It was a place in the river where the water flows downhill through hundreds of car sized rocks. We climbed the hill rock-by-rock and then descended by jumping from one rock to another. One of the guys called it an adult sized jungle gym.

After playing at the river, and almost getting hit by a falling branch on the walk back, we drove home. I got home around five and spent the rest of the night with the family. I got to feed Palmer and give him his customary bath before bed. Then, Kim and I capped off the weekend by catching up on some television. We curled up on the couch and watch an episode of The Biggest Loser.

It was a great three days filled with family time and time with some great guys.

1. back Barry, Matt, Rowe, Daniel, Mike and Jeramie


2. back Big is relative. I was probably going to get two feet off the ground, as compared to my previous one foot jump.

Labels: family, sports, travel

I saw this site referenced on the American Consumer News blog, which is probably my favorite blog, where you provide food to hungry people by playing a word game.

I'm not trying to be vainglorious, but I rock this game. You should try it out and post a new word you learn in the comments of this post.

Labels: activism

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Everyone should watch this video. It's eye opening, informative, and clever.

Thanks for pointing this out Daniel.

Labels: green

I graduated from Eastern Alamance high school in 1998. Now, ten years later I am involved in planning our first reunion. Last Friday we had our first official planning meeting. There were about ten of us there. We met at an Italian restaurant in Alamance county for dinner and discussion.

When I got there, I realized that I had not talked to any of the other "party planning committee" members in about eight years. Things were a little awkward at first. So, after making the statement, "Well, this is awkward.", I suggested we go around the table and give a basic update, e.g. where we live, if we are married, if we have kids, etc.. I purposely tried to stay away from the "What do you do?" question, mainly because I don't like to be defined by my job.

I quickly found out that I was the only person that does not live in Alamance County. Some of them had left at some point to go to college, but they all had ended up back in the A-Co. Though I tried to avoid the "what do you do" discussion, nearly everyone gave their current occupation. It was great to hear what had been going on in everyone's lives. That's the main reason I want to go to the reunion.

So, everyone else had given their run down, and someone asked me, "Shannon what have you been up to?" Before I could answer, Marsha1 piped up and said, "Saving the World... at least that's what Leslie said." It was awesome. I was so proud of my little sister.

This gave me an opportunity to talk to them about a few of the things that we are doing at Visio Dei. Hopefully, the future provide more chances to talk to them about these things. It would be amazing if I could some of them involved in my well drilling project, or something else.

1. back I have a younger sister, Leslie. Leslie has a friend, Morgan. Morgan has a sister, Marsha. Occasionally, Leslie and Morgan hangout at Marsha's house. I graduated high school with Marsha. Marsha was at the meeting.

Labels: indiscriminate

My wife hates to go bowling. Well, that's an overstatement. More aptly, my wife is not the biggest fan of going bowling. Ironically, her cousin likes to bowl so much that he does it for a living.

Chris, i.e. "C.J.", and Kim grew up together. They are only about a year apart in age. He has been bowling his whole life and bowling professionally since 2003. We've gotten to see him bowl on ESPN a few times, which is pretty cool.

This year, he has an awesome opportunity to participate in one of the biggest tournaments of the PBA season. It is sort of their "post-season" tournament. It's called the Motel 6 Roll to Riches. The Riches part is that there is a $150,000, winner take all prize. It features the winners of the four PBA major events and two other bowlers that are voted on by the fans.

This is where you come in. I need you all to go here and cast a vote for Chris Loschetter.

Thanks for the support.

Labels: family, sports

The Patriots not winning the Super Bowl is about the same as me not winning my fantasy football league this year.

Tom Brady
LaDainian Tomlinson
Edgerrin James
Maurice Jones-Drew
Randy Moss
Steve Smith
Jason Whitten
Steelers, DST

How do you lose with a team like that?

Speaking of our fantasy football league, Jason and Jeramie, your checks are in the mail, seriously. And Jeff, when can I expect to see a check from you. Don't make ask your wife for it.

Labels: sports

A few weeks ago, I posted that I wanted to redesign my blog and add a sorted blog roll. Well, Daniel took on the challenge and hooked me up with what I was looking for.

If you ever go to my blog site, which I know a lot of you do not visit the actual site because you subscribe in a feed reader, you will see that I have redesigned the layout. It is not a finished product, but it's on its way. I wouldn't try clicking on any links because they probably will not work, but you can at least get a feel for what it looks like.

In the knew design, I have a blog roll on the right hand side. Currently, I am only listing Visio Dei bloggers. Soon, I plan to add list with the other blogs I read.

The dynamic blog roll that Daniel created has a few features:

1. It is sorted chronologically. The person that has posted most recently will be listed at the top followed by the next most recent, and so on.


2. It has a posting date threshold. If you have not posted in the last month, you will not be listed on my blog roll. A month seemed a little harsh, but that's how Daniel designed it. So, that's what I am going with. So, don't fade into blogger oblivian <cough>Jeff</cough> or I'll lose you.

At it's core, the blog roll is an AJAX call to a PHP script that takes the feed from a Google Reader shared tag and runs it through a Yahoo! Pipe and then displays the results, I think. You'll have to ask Daniel if you want the nitty-gritty.

Anyways, thanks a lot Daniel.

Labels: blogosphere

Chris Marlow pointed to a great post on Gary Lamb's blog today. The post is Gary Lamb, pastor of Revolution Church in Canton, Georgia, ranting about church planters that claim they want to reach the unchurched, that really just want to "do church" differently. That hardly captures the essence of his post. So, you'd be better off reading it for yourself.

The post struck a chord with me because I can see myself as one of the people that he's talking about. My hope is that I am "reaching the unchurched", but do my actions back that up? My answer... No, at least not all the time. So, this post was challenging. You should read it. Maybe it will force you to look at and examine why and how you "do church".

On a side note, Revolution Church is a church community with multiple locations. This is interesting because this is the vision for Visio Dei.

Labels: blogosphere, church