Making A Splash

I was listening to the Manager Tools podcast the other day amongst all my other podcasts and the the topic was CPA.  Mark talked about how he hates twitter because it is distracting to leaders and relates it to how it is an example of continuous partial attention (CPA) which he says is always bad for leaders.  I didn’t know what he as talking about so I Googled it.

I hit on this site from Business Week.  It talks about that with CPA, “we’re motivated by a desire not to miss anything”. It goes on to say that multi-tasking is not the same as this continuous partial …

Okay so everyone is doing posts like this these days so I thought I would throw my hat in the ring.

Honestly I am really tired of the whole process.  I’m tired of being told what to think.  I’m tired of being told we need change. I’m tired of hearing about mavericks.  I’m tired of hearing slick speeches and tired of hearing everyone twist words.  I could really do without special TV commercials and I could give up hearing pontification with little substance.  I’m tired of the news only telling me about their favorite candidate.  I’m tired of endorsements.  Since when did the latest Hollywood star or your favorite newspaper ever change your mind anyway?  And most of all,  I’m tired …

We are hearing a lot about change these days.  Some change we like, some we don’t like, and in the case of my 401k, my missing change.  At any rate, I was reading today in Joshua chapter 5 and came to verses 10-12:

Did you catch that about the manna?   Here one day, gone the next. Bam.  Just like that.  Now I don’t pretend to know what manna really was.  I mean, the Israelites went around the dessert for 40 years calling it “What is it?” so they were probably very ready for a change.

In that passage, that is all there is about the transition from manna to no manna.   Maybe some …

Okay so I’m going to open a can of worms here.  I really, REALLY can’t stand chick flicks.  I think they are the spawn of Satan.  No really.  I can count on one hand how many chick flicks I have watched in the last 5 years.  Admittedly we don’t go to the movies much and neither do we rent very often.  However when we do either, watching a chick flick is not even considered.  For me, watching them is like tin foil on a filling. Yeah it’s that painful.  Give me action, mystery and adventure any day.

So why do I hate them so much?  Well it’s simply a matter of garbage in, garbage out.

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As …

Oh man I am stoked.  So I’m at this conference for the next few days and am really looking forward to a time of spiritual renewal.  Tonight the band led us in incredible worship and then rocked us a little bit too.  I loved it all.

After James challenged us from the Word and led us into some incredible prayer time, we had a chance to go out and visit the conference sponsors.

I of course went straight for the Crossway Table. I was REALLY hoping to get a sneak peak at the new ESV Study Bible.  I wasn’t disappointed.

My first impression? It’s big.  …

How many times have you studied the Bible and it didn’t stick with you for more than a day or worse a few hours or even a few minutes?  So let’s be honest.  If you have a daily quiet time all year, do you remember all 365 (366 days this year) quiet times?  Of course not.  Nobody does.  But do you remember any?  Do any of them stick? 

I love that picture.  Yes that is a wall of gum.  Pretty cool huh?  So how do you get gum to stick to a wall?  Will it stick if you just throw the pack up against the wall?  While entertaining, I think all …

So this applies to many things but today it hit me with my RSS reader.  A what reader some of you are saying?  Well it is software that you can subscribe to blogs, news sites and other things with and easily read everything without browsing to each individual website.

Well I have been using Yahoo! mail for years.  Since 1997 probably.  And while it has not always been great, it was what I was used to and it just worked.  It had multiple email address access way before Gmail.  Anyway, in the last year or so they added an integrated RSS reader into the mail client.  I was …

I was digging in to Mark chapter 7 the other day and I was in the last chunk.  Verses 31-40 to be specific.  Here it is:

The fact that that Jesus stuck his fingers in the guys ears, spit and touched the guys tongue, is funny.  He may have even spit on the guys tongue.  Now that’s just not right.  Do lots of things like Jesus but don’t spit on people’s tongues.  Not only will you not heal them, you might end up needing healing.

Anyway, verse 37 has really stuck with me.  “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”  The people were incredulous that he could even heal deaf and mute …