Year 2013

iPhone prank

This may be one of my new favorite pranks. I was setting up Carolyn’s shortcuts on her iPhone. You know, the option that allows you to type in a short code, and the iPhone will fill in a phrase for…

Wes likes repentance

Wednesdays are full days of meetings for me and our staff. It wasn’t so full for one of our interns named Wes this week. Our intern meeting with he and Maggie at 9:00 a.m. was, well, Wes-less. We texted to…

Bible Reading, Day 214

I’m reading the Reading God’s Story: One-Year Chronological Bible reading plan at at YouVersion. Check it out here. Today’s reading was Nahum 1-3. “Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows..” Thought: Purposeful annual repetition of religious events serves to…

Learning from gifts

Yesterday I received an amazing gift from Viktor. I’m asking folks around the office to call me “Captain Jeff” now. He collaborated with Carolyn to put my mug shot on a Star Trek figurine. The rest of the day was…

A conversational diet

From Northstar Church’s sermon Sunday. (Link) Let’s ween ourselves off careless, worldly speech that is focused only on the trivial and meaningless, and let’s begin a speech feast of grace, truth and beauty. Listen here.

Connectedness vs relationship

Great thoughts from whimzie: We live in a world where with a few keystrokes and in a matter of seconds, people all over the world can know our opinion about anything we want to share. I’m sharing these thoughts of…