Here’s the newest song by Jars of Clay, recently performed live on The Wally Show.
And they have some great news to share too!
After nearly a year of “trying”- it’s official. We have successfully conceived a new record.
— JARS OF CLAY (@jarsofclay) May 16, 2012
My church created this video describing the basic elements of the Gospel of Jesus, paying special attention to its impact on our identity.
In this week’s episode I talk about the struggle to give my attention only to what needs it in that moment rather than allowing it to be hijacked by so many smaller, less urgent matters. Technology is a major culprit in this battle. I’ve tried to come up with some creative solutions to keep myself from getting lost in a sea of digital clutter.
If you’re a student at FSU taking finals this week, good luck on all your tests!
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What did the world do before it had Lionel Worthington? My roommate Zack has created a monster phenomenon. I really like his supporting cast in this latest installment of the Campus Safari series. My friend Hope does an amazing job. In the span of a couple minutes she goes from terrified to keenly interested, from uncomfortable to sassy. She delivers her final line perfectly. Adrian does an impressive job faking being hungover. At least I think he was faking.
The cast behind the camera is roughly the same. Bryan Zhang is the director and writer. Patrick Gines is the cinematographer. Tyler Sununu, another of my roommates, tries his hand at boom operator.
Josh and Kyle are both first-year staff for the FSU Navigators through the EDGE Corps program. This semester they each taught at Nav Night for the first time. Recordings of those talks have been added to the FSU Navigators Podcast. I thought I’d share them with you because they both did such a good job.
When girls ask: “where are all the nice guys?” – they are in the friend-zone, where you left them. #singleguyproblems
— Single Guy Problems (@snglgprblms) March 25, 2012
Ladies, I’m not saying you ought to settle. But you might find it’s worth giving a guy a chance to win your heart even if he’s not exactly who you thought he’d be. But if you do choose to turn guys down flatly, at the very least don’t follow that by publicly lamenting over the fact that you’re not yet married.
In the interest of full disclosure, I say this as a man who has finally found someone willing to extend that chance after years of being attracted solely to women who would not.
In this episode I follow up on a question I received from a friend who read my birthday essay last week. He was interested to know how I planned on becoming physically and spiritually healthy, something I mentioned as a goal of mine for the coming year.
See that. I actually do care about my readers and listeners. Ask me questions and I’ll address them, maybe even “on air.”
I know I sound a bit disinterested in this episode. I’m actually just running out of steam.
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Today I turn 28. I am waist-deep in my late-twenties. I am growing increasingly aware of the generation gap present when I’m around the college students I work with and minister to. I find myself in more and more conversations that subtly (and not-so-subtly) inquire why I’m not yet married. I’ve had a brooding sense of stagnation, a feeling that only in recent months has begun to lift. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
I went back and read the birthday essay I wrote last year and was struck by just how optimistic my outlook on the year ahead seemed to be. It was the epitome of looking at the glass half full despite my typical proclivity to the contrary. I chose to focus on what was good in my life. It was an especially difficult choice because at that time I was in the middle of some painful and uncertain circumstances. But even in the midst of those events I can remember thinking to myself, “Well, at least things can’t get any worse.” Of that I was wrong.
I will remember the year between my twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth birthdays as the most difficult and most formative year of my life up to that point. It was a year when I came face to face with my demons, my idols, and my savior, none of whom seemed to want to leave me alone. Throughout 2011 I found myself becoming increasingly distraught with disillusionment, losing any sense of direction and understanding of my life that I’d had prior. I experienced God’s discipline and his faithfulness; I found him to be true to his word in ways I’d previously only read about. He fought for me even when all I could do was wait and hope he would come through.
In this week’s episode I talk about how being a blogger adds a wrinkle to communication in a dating relationship.
A special welcome to my new stalkers listeners who are friends with Kathy. Glad to have you here.
Sorry for the scratchy spots in this recording. I had my MacBook on my lap and forgot that the mic is easily disturbed when you move your computer around.
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