Hurray! It’s time for my annual soundtrack. I can hardly believe I’ve now made five of these things. These are the twelve songs that impacted me the most this year.
I love the cohesiveness of this mix. Tracks one and twelve form bookends, a kind of point and counter-point that frame three narratives. Tracks two through four depict the rise and fall of unrequited affection. Tracks five through nine all have something to say about heaven. Tracks ten and eleven are about regaining perspective.
It’s a great day for podcasting! In this week’s episode I talk about the two-part message series I’m teaching for the students of the FSU Navigators. I gave the first message last Thursday. Now I have the challenge of creating a compelling sequel, which I’ll teach this coming Thursday.
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Happy MLK Day! In today’s episode I talk about how we all have personal non-negotiables, things we choose to hang on to no matter what the cost. I’ve found that I often choose my non-negotiables without careful consideration. That lack of intentional decision-making can lead to trouble.
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If you follow me on Twitter or if you’re my friend on Facebook you likely know I’m a property manager for a few rentals in Tallahassee. You probably know that because I’m often complaining about how the job seems to interrupt my life at seemingly the most inoppertune times. Back in November the job tried to interrupt me again, except I wasn’t in the state.
Well it’s about time. In this episode I talk about how circumstances, especially traumatic one, affect our beliefs. I illustrate the point with an old Chris Rice song and an excerpt from a book by Elizabeth Elliot.
Ironically enough Chris Rice’s record label is Eb+Flo Records.
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I’ve been blogging for nearly eight years now. I first started because I wanted to share my experiences as I studied abroad. I wrote as often as I could while I was in Europe, wanting to capture every memory as vividly as possible. I started with a simple goal and saw it through. As a result I have thirty-one posts from that summer through which I can relive some fantastic adventures.
I love to blog because I love to write. Essay or tweet, notepad or napkin, hidden in a journal or for all the world to see; it doesn’t matter. And I want to do whatever I can to become a better writer. Consistency will go a long way but I don’t believe it’s enough simply to hammer out some words and hit publish. So to that end I’ve made a few blogging goals for the year ahead.
I won’t go so far as to say that these are the best tweets of the year. Neither are they all of my favorites. But they’re my favorite tweets that I took the time to save as favorites, meaning I had easy access to them to create this post. I’ll try to be a little less discriminating in 2012.
Anyway, on with the show. Some of these tweets need to be grouped together for the full effect and will be grouped together thusly.
Great idea! This sounds like one of those shows you see on Discovery Channel. But doing this as an independent blogger? That’d be wicked awesome.
Man, it’s cold in Connecticut. In this week’s episode I share the topic of my two-week message series I’m scheduled to teach for the FSU Navigators early on in the spring 2012 semester.
I think I ought to clarify the final spoiler. Each December I begin to evaluate whether I should stay on staff with the Navs in the upcoming fall semester and, if the answer is yes, how I can best serve the ministry. I’ve started that process for fall 2012. There’s a good chance I won’t make a decision until after I’ve given these talks.
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I’ve had Facebook Timeline for a couple months now as a beta tester. I interact with Facebook as a user and web developer. So, in other words, I’ve had the chance to see Timeline inside and out. Here are some initial thoughts and, as the title suggests, they are very preliminary.
There are a few things I really like about the new profile setup. It’s great to be able to designate certain content as Featured content, to show users which content you’ve added (or that others have added) to your Timeline is most important to you. This is something you used to be able to do on your profile several iterations ago, and it’s nice to see it added back again.
Facebook has made it super easy to navigate from one time period to another, without which this change would have driven me crazy. So, even if you don’t like the change, at least it’s fairly easy to use.
I even like the new profile cover, the huge image at the top of your Timeline, though I wish you could select a photo you’ve been tagged in instead of just the ones you’ve uploaded.
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