How to stop abusing your finances

There’s a great article over at the Motley Fool about how to stop living paycheck to paycheck. In brief, the five principles that are shared: Evaluate your illness. Attack your illness. Cure your denial. Take some preventative medicine. Relax. Check…

Back up your blog

MMI shares about how Slice of Laodicea’s blog was accidentally deleted by their server. This is an important reminder to all bloggers to backup! I can’t imagine losing all the content I’ve spent hours writing and producing to a goober’s…

Aim lower; think smaller…

I’d love to know your comments about this video… Since our church has thousands of kids (it feels like that when we’re all together), it’s a wonderful reminder and encouragement to continue being strategic in family ministry and discipleship.

Our Story, ruining the Metro

This entry will be a little different from most of the others in our story, but it’s such a “moving” story, and one previously unwritten, that I thought it might be appreciated here. It occurs during our tenure in Garland,…

Survivor Men

Sam and Zac McKinstry spent the afternoon together. I never saw them until they came loping into the house, dripping in sweat. “Where have you been?” I asked, curious. “Riding bikes on North Main,” Zac said. “Where on North Main?”…

A weekend of service

Whew! I’m sitting here on a Sunday night reflecting on a busy, fulfilling weekend which our family and friends, many from Journey, spent in service. On Friday evening, about 15 of us volunteered to work the concession stand at what…

Must have application for the Mac: Quicksilver

If you’re a Mac user and haven’t yet discovered the simplicity and ease of Quicksilver, then you might as well convert back to a PC… No, not really. That would be ridiculous. However, I’ve found that Quicksilver is a can’t-live-without…