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At orange I had the opportunity to meet Craig Jutila what a great guy. One of the guys who was with him was Joe McGinnis. Joe does all the stuff for family ministry and runs the empoweringkids site. It has lots of great insights and tools for families and those who minister to families. Here […]

My good friend Kenny showed me this video. It does two of my favorite things, mocks Microsoft and shows why Apple’s branding is so strong….simplicity. Love this video hope you do too.

My daughter is 10 months old but having worked with pre-teen girls now for quite a few years my wheels are turning thinking how I am going to handle certain situations that will inevitably come up. One of those will no doubt be modesty. I came across this post Are Your Daughters Looking Sexy? Her are some guidelines for

I came across this app when our video guy mentioned it. I thought I would check it out. Am I glad I did. Square is a ministry/small business tool you can’t shouldn’t live without. It is an application that turns your iPhone, android, iPad device into a credit card machine. You plug in a small “Square” card

I remember the day I stopped using a PC forever. It was a glorious day. I had always loved computers my dad bought a PAL286 (you heard me 286 as in 286mb’s of beige box goodness. He was told by the guy at Office Max that “That was all the hard drive space he would ever need)

When I was growing up my mom often told me,  “If you have low expectations, you are rarely disappointed.”   I have found this to be helpful. There is always something else that you need, want, desire (every year apple comes out with a new iPhone). The key to contentment is to be grateful, and have low expectations.

Two sunday’s ago our computerized check-in system was down for our first service on the East coast. This is never a good thing. I will say that we have been with this company for over 5 years and this is the only glitch we have experienced on a sunday morning. Disclaimer being mentioned. Here is what we

Just finished Donald Miller’s book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. What a powerful book! I haven’t read a book like it…..maybe ever. I was moved by Miller’s writing style as well as his content. I the only other book I remember crying while reading is No Compromise the Keith Green story. Here are the

One of the most profound moments at Orange for me this year was the Donald Miller session. He was talking from his new book A million miles in a thousand years. His book talks about the process of him writing a screen play for a movie based on his life story. In the process of

The winners of the Shout Praises Kids: Promises DVD and CD combo pack are: 1. Stormy Martin from twitter @stormymartin 2. Rich S. from a blog comment Congrats you two email me your mailing info and I’ll get the stuff out to you. (Winners were chosen using http://www.random.org/)