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5 Tips to Success

Posted in family, leadership, life on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m always on the look out for what successful and productive people do to be and become successful and productive. I seek out these habits – like arising early – as a means to drink from the marrow of life and get as much from my short time on earth, both for myself and for [...]

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Arise At Five

Posted in Blogroll, advocacy, blogs, change, family, fatherhood, leadership, life, prayer on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Every time I mention to someone that I wake up at either 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. the first question they ask me is “Why?”. Why would anyone who doesn’t HAVE to wake up that early do so? Apparently it’s OK for people who must be at work that early, but why punish yourself?
I’m not naturally [...]

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As A Witness

Posted in Bible, family, grace, leadership, life, ministry, preaching, speech acts on August 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »

On facebook, I’ve been chronicling my ups and downs – mostly downs – in dealing with my former landlady here in Redwood City. From our arrival six months ago, she has been – in our opinions – intrusive, abusive, and over-bearing, to say the least. At first she stopped by the house every day to [...]

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Celebrity and Humanity

Posted in authentically black, family, fatherhood, grace, life, race relations, ranting, speech acts on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

For some reason, I feel compelled to write a few words about celebrity and humanity with Michael Jackson’s memorial hanging as the backdrop. It should be said at the outset that I have always been a Michael Jackson fan, though a conflicted one.
If MJ were still alive and had a CD coming out next week, [...]

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Loving Is Coming

Posted in Missional Church, advocacy, authentically black, church, equality, family, friends, history, kids, life, politics, race relations on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We’re in a season of celebrating at my house. The reason? Rochelle and I decided a few weeks ago that life was too short not to live with great joy! Plus, we realized that there is much to celebrate in life (and my mom bought me a sweet grill). One of our upcoming celebrations will [...]

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The Real Thing (a reflection on “Lars and the Real Girl”)

Posted in Bible, equality, family, grace, life, movies on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last night I began preparing for my summer preaching series, “Summer Blockbuster.” I’m going to take a look at movies that subversively — even to the authors and producers — tell the gospel in beautiful and compelling ways. One of those movies will certainly be “Lars and the Real Girl.”
Lars… is about a quirky young [...]

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