Archive for January, 2004

Planning a Super Bowl Party? Why not have fun and make a difference for Africa?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

A very convicting look at how poorly the world is responding to the AIDS crisis in Africa… I’m just as guilty as most, but I did just give $20 to World Vision so I’m not a total loss.
Planning a Super Bowl Party? Why not have fun and make a difference for Africa? - DATA, Debt […]

Gift Card Sales Soar in Christian Stores

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

“PlastiCard Plus reports its August to December gift-card sales increased 56% from the same 2002 period…”
Is that really a good thing? I may be the exception, but I buy gift cards for someone when I don’t know what they’d like — when I don’t have a good enough relationship with them or the relationship has […]

Community of the Way

Monday, January 26th, 2004

My Pastor is doing a series on the “Community of the Way.” What is a COTW you might ask? Well… it’s a community of people following “the Way” (Jesus). It’s an communal adaption of the term for early Christians: “followers of the Way.”
I’m really digging it. You can listen to the first 2 sermons on […]

Reading for a living

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

What I’ve been reading this week… in preperation for my new job duties… it’s nice to get paid to learn new stuff
Planning Extreme Programming
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
UML Distilled

Get me an ETA on the EPA ASAP

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

I’m not mentioned anywhere on the website… but I will be a panelist at this thing here…
EPA 2004: Spring Training
I get to rip apart… I mean… look at EPA member publications’ Web sites and evaluate them. My buddies Andy Wright and Matthew Taylor will be joining me. The old gang back together — should be […]

24/7

Thursday, January 22nd, 2004

So I’ve been reading Red Moon Rising and just got back from One Thing so I’ve got 24/7 prayer on the brain.
There’s an IHOP starting in St. Paul but it’s on Tuesdays — the same day as my small group (ironically a prayer group) so that’s out. Then I got this new job at Bethany […]