Year 2008

Parchment Reviews

Review: Holding Fast (rated 4 stars)

Holding Fast: The Untold Story of the Mount Hood Tragedy by Karen James In 2006, avid mountain climber Kelly James and two friends planned a climb of Mt. Hood outside Portland, Oregon just before Christmas. Holding Fast is the story…

Jeff Noble
December 10, 2008

Campfire Talk

Everyone’s a-Twitter

Nowadays, many companies are discovering the immense application of using Twitter for direct and viral marketing. Most churches have not. Perhaps because their members still live in a 1.0 world. Heck, there are churches I know that still don’t have…

Jeff Noble
December 9, 2008

Homestead Happenings

Doctor update

Carolyn had her surgery this morning at 6:00. The doctors removed two nodes, one from her breast and another from her groin. Initially, they told us that they would test one before removing the other. Today, however, they said they…

Jeff Noble
December 8, 2008
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Parchment Reviews

Review: Searching for God Knows What (rated 4 stars)

Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller I almost put it down. The first three chapters, while very humorous, just left me wondering what I was doing wasting my time reading this when there are so many good books…

Jeff Noble
December 6, 2008
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Church Chew

Worship services of significance

So far this week, I’ve had the joy and privilege of participating in two worship services that were not at Journey but were highly significant. Briefly… Sunday morning, our church was invited by Revival Center Church to worship with them.…

Jeff Noble
December 4, 2008

Parchment Reviews

Review: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars by Mark Batterson Mark Batterson is the founding pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. Carolyn and I missed the opportunity…

Jeff Noble
December 3, 2008
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Shootn the Bull

Twittiquette

I am loving Twitter. I am an unabashed Twaddict. I play with my Twitter daily. And I Twinkle on my iPhone occasionally. Twitter users will know what I’m talking about. Others will be ready to censor Notes from their RSS…

Jeff Noble
December 1, 2008
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Homestead Happenings

Christmas decorating

While Caro rolled out of bed early for a Black Friday trip to Wal-Mart (where she claims she bought nothing), the kids and I snoozed our lives away until mid-morning. In fact, Caro had apparently come back and left for…

Jeff Noble
November 29, 2008
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Goin' to Town

Interview with the Pakistani Spectator

In probably one of the most unusual interviews I’ve ever done, I recently responded to a series of questions for a news/blog site in Pakistan. I have no idea how they discovered my blog, but they sent me a very…

Jeff Noble
November 28, 2008
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