Zoo Camp...

Reagan went to Zoo camp so here are some adorable pics of Reagan as a bird for the female contingent of the blog:

Here come the Pics...

I am clearing off our digital camera so there will be plenty more where this came from; Here is some Chicago Lovin' :

Support is growing for The Cause...

This can be our anthem of warning about the impending doom:

I hate to be picky but...

My Hotel smells like cat pee with about 95% accuracy. I also don't really care for cats all that much so I wont post a picture cleverly illustrating my predicament.

I see too much "God" stuff...

I am still in the process of deciding whether it is good or not; primarily for Christendom, secondly, for the purity of my soul. Of course I believe that the products I sell are quite exempt from most scrutiny and all the others are firmly placed on the chopping block.

I attend a number of conferences (another one this week in fact), meet a lot of great people, and a number of questionable ones, all of whom want to show, tell, or give me something. I haven't had to purchase a Christian book or magazine in about a year. I also get to hear a fair number of slogans and catch phrases.

It is this new level of jadedness that I revisited a very common phrase that many churches and ministries use as a tag line:

"Loving God, Loving Others."

What's wrong with that? It is a seemingly accurate if not benign statement right? Well here is my major contention with the statement and I will let you decide whether or not I am being prudish or profound:

The actionable sequence of these statements are completely contingent upon human behavior and competency. If, for example, this is the major mission statement of your church or ministry then everything is resting on you; God wont be loved without you and all those others will be unloved as well.

I would submit that I am far too aware of my own shortcomings to rest anything more than mediocre blogging as something to be accountable for. If a Christ-centered organization is hanging it's hat on the efforts of its people I think we have missed the point. The scary problem that we have is that we have missed it so beautifully. Never before has ministry been so pretty and strategically precise.

I hope though, that all of the effectiveness and strategy hasn't caused us to miss what we started out to do. I hope that we are not the church of Ephesus as indicated in Revelation:

BibleGateway.com - Passage Lookup: Revelation 2:1-4; via kwout

What do you think?


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Exhibit C...

Shape-shifting robot squeezes onto military radar | NetworkWorld.com Community via kwout

Now I am just rubbing it in...

Free concert, 72 degrees slight breeze, sun peaking over the sky scrapers...

Where I am today...

Not a bad life.

Batting 1000% so far...

I wont build it up, I will simply tell you what I had:

White wine rabbit sausage with some awesome cheese from France on top.

It is my new love language.

Very excited...

About traveling without our son not about the book (yet).

On the road again...

I guess it would be more correct to say I'm on the plane again. We are off to Chicago for a conference and I am with my Wife no kid and two great friends. Should be fun and I will be sure to post pictures of the deep dish.

PS- I picked out a Robert Ludlum novel for my wife to read on the plane, we will see how she takes to the trashy spy novel genre.

Exhibit B...

Robots: New MAARS Kill-Bot Delivered to Military, May Finally Get to Shoot Something via kwout

This is for your own good...

I am now starting a new section on my blog for the good of all humanity. It will simply be titled, "Robot Wars."

Don't say I didn't warn you that this was coming, go ahead laugh now but when we find ourselves locked in an epic struggle for survival against all the machines that we built then you won't think I am so crazy will you?

I humbly submit exhibit A:



Stay tuned.

A Cherished Experience...

Though it's true awesomeness cannot be known by a cell phone picture, this is the "Crazy Burger". Chili, cheese, and pastrami. I am still paying for it.

Back to the future moment...

A co-worker friend of mine and I were chatting online and he hooked a computer up to his LCD in the living room to act as a media center. I called him from skype and we had a little video chat. It was totally like the scene from Back to the future 2 where they had all of the guys chatting on the big TV at the same time. Hopefully next week I can post about the hover board that we have been tinkering on as well.

FYI- This is a screen shot from my computer of me looking at myself from his webcam pointing at his TV. Thats not confusing is it?