August 2009
21 posts
“The kingdom is like this,” says Jesus: it envisions the abolition of the...”
– Ched Myers
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10 Reasons you should join the Electric Highway &...
Being an ambassador for this year’s Nike+ Human Race 10K has helped me to solidify my passion for running. Because come on, let’s be honest—if I quit running in 6 months, I’ll feel much worse now. Right?
But not only that, it’s also solidified by passion for getting others to run.
Thus, I’m writing a post to tell you to do a couple of things. Sign up for the...
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check out my first blog for Nike!
“We are invited to see ourselves and our lives as part of God’s story. That...”
– StanleyHauerwas
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I run because I was too big for comfort...
My running story is probably similar to that of a lot of runners: I started running because I felt like the person I saw in the mirror was twice the size of the person I was just a few years before.
It’s not about being superficial; honestly, it’s not. It wasn’t that I had to “look better.” It was that I was overweight and physically out of shape. I ate poorly and...
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Join the Electric Highway for the 2009 Nike+ Human... →
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the Electric Highway
What can bring the road to life?
Thousands and thousands of feet pounding it. Over, and over, and over.
Runners electrify the pavement.
One runner or many runners, they all contribute.
A two-ton chunk of metal gets the road dirty. The sweat of runners gives it a rinse.
Go and give the road a nice rinse today. Bring out that original shine.
The highway may look busy with bumber-to-bumper...
“Christianity is more than a matter of a new understanding. Christianity is an...”
– StanleyHauerwas
Framework
When you think about your life, what’s the biggest framework you would put yourself in?
Is it just your sphere of influence?
Your family?
Your fellow city members?
Your nationality?
Your race?
Citizenship?
Humanity?
or, perhaps even broader, just a participant in the planet’s rhythms?
Whether you realize it or not, the choices you make will deeply effect someone.
Even the...
What do you make of this?
What happens when life keeps punching you in the gut, leaving you frustrated…
sad…
confused?
I’ve said before that we have to be “interpreters of pain” for others. But after a summer from hell, I don’t want anyone to interpret my pain.
Is there always a reason behind everything?
Or does the world just suck sometimes?
Maybe all we can do is just take the...
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interpreting God/
Why do we pick ourselves up when we fall,
is it only so that we learn to stumble?
Maybe so we don’t stand so tall,
love drops so humble.
Our broken steps,
Our bones break,
The strangled smiles,
The naivety strangles.
What does it mean to know,
to love blindly,
or to sink below/
What does it mean to lose sight,
to bend backwards,
to get lost in the broken...
What Inspires You?
What makes you want to move forward, rather than languishing in self-loathing, despair, boredom, or apathy?
In short: what inspires you?
What moves you to action?
What makes you live as if something matters….
as if you have a singular, spectacular, powerful focus?
And have you ever thought about this…
What if humility, at its core, is really a deinvestment of power?
This morning...
