i wrote a post a couple of years ago titled, 'Your Obituary Starts Here' which i need to flesh out a little i think, because we don't say or think enough about that. When i turned 40 last year, among other things my wife got my best friend from college to bake a Boob Cake [yup, exactly what you thought when you read that] and put together a bunch of the things i had wanted [...]
i don’t understand existers. you know, people who exist. who go thru the motions. have a job, maybe have a family, have some kind of church life (or not) but that’s it. no huge hunger for more – meaning of life – changing the world – world domination (in my case, for Jesus) – adding to someone, or some community’s life or meaning. it’s like they don’t even care. How do you not even care? [...]
i have a friend called Roy (or Conrad Roy) he is one of the new students who was in our church enGAGE this year and is now part of our leadership team for next year i really like Roy, for a number of reasons: he says ‘awesome’ a lot. now i don’t like it when people say ‘awesome’ a lot because i personally have reserved the word ‘awesome’ for God cos it seems a travesty [...]