First post of the New Year. Some decent articles (links) followed by a few of my own thoughts below (bullets). Be challenged, and enjoy!
Weekly Links
Link of the Week
Parenting and responding to Newtown. A week or so old, but a good collection of thoughts here. Worth the read.
Christian Faith
ABORTION: Time Magazine says the pro choice movement is losing ground. Encouraging, but this Christian blogger (Russell Moore is one of my favorites) offers some perspective.
KIDS and TRUTH: I have been struggling about how to appropriately teach my children the things I believe. Here’s a short article promoting a resource that made me think.
INTROVERTS: Here’s a book review about a book about introversion. It’s helpful to think through if you’re an introvert.
Miscellaneous
SOCIAL MEDIA: Here’s a neat little infographic about 2012 and social media.
Bullet Thoughts for the Week
Faith:
- I listened to John Piper’s farewell message early this morning. You can find it on the Desiring God blog if you like (it’s from about a week ago), but it is very typical of how he has challenged me to think about life and leading.
- I really believe God is going to do some amazing things this year. Really.
- Pray for us in Kenmore. Next week we will be praying for 165 hours straight. This effort, led by First Glance, our local youth/young adult/moms outreach, is very exciting. I’m praying for FG as they host, and I’m praying for God to move and be at work in powerful ways.
- I am praying through family leadership and discipleship. Like anything else, it takes faith because you know you can’t be successful on your own.
Sports:
- The Browns will find a coach, and for those saying Shurmur would be better than other candidates, I disagree. Shurmur regularly looked lost and made terrible decisions. Not to mention the sloppiness of play at times. All of those things are directly related to coaching.
- Title game tonight. I’ll be happy if either team wins, but I really want to watch a good game. I hope for a great game.
- I don’t care that hockey is back. Sorry, hockey-loving friends.
Miscellaneous
- There are not a lot of people like me at the gym on Monday mornings. Probably a good thing.
- I do a lot of reading on the web and I get really annoyed when I’m trying to read an article and some advertisement comes up before I can read the article I’m trying to get to. Grrr.
- I’ve enjoyed the snow. Sounds like we’re in for a week of warmer weather. I hope we get some more snow. The best thing about warmer weather . . . the heating bill is less!
- School started back up for the kids today. The funky-ness of holidays on Tuesdays is now over and the routine can continue. For us, it’s been a good break with lots of family time and rest.
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