Biscuit Weather

When my son is coming home, I make biscuits.

Biscuit Weather Biscuit Weather

Me Monster: Fighting the Temptation to be Spectacular

Moving from popularity to ministry in every area of life.

Me Monster: Fighting the Temptation to be Spectacular Me Monster: Fighting the Temptation to be Spectacular

Dreams: The Forgotten Spiritual Discipline

The movie Inception reminded me that dreams are one of the great forgotten gifts of the Bible.

Dreams: The Forgotten Spiritual Discipline Dreams: The Forgotten Spiritual Discipline

Ditch the Safety Talk: Work Dangerously

Safely or dangerously? How do you work?

Ditch the Safety Talk: Work Dangerously Ditch the Safety Talk: Work Dangerously

In Praise of Fiction

A good story has more to offer than a warm fuzzy feeling. Consider these other benefits...

In Praise of Fiction In Praise of Fiction

PhotoPlay: The Visual (and Mysterious) Poetry of Thirds

Some break rules. Some keep them. Some do both and bear fruit from it.

PhotoPlay: The Visual (and Mysterious) Poetry of Thirds PhotoPlay: The Visual (and Mysterious) Poetry of Thirds

Learning the difference between work and service

Sometimes you have to let go of something - maybe even let it die and fall to the earth - before your life can bear righteous fruit.

Learning the difference between work and service Learning the difference between work and service

We Are Real

We’re launching a community writing project to share stories about how real online relationships can become.

We Are Real We Are Real

What I Learned From Managing Twenty-Somethings

Being teachable and learning from young employees can be difficult when they know more about their jobs than you do.

What I Learned From Managing Twenty-Somethings What I Learned From Managing Twenty-Somethings
Towering Figures

David has gone to the same camp for the past nine years. He worked his way up the ranks of awards and badges each summer, impressing counselors and cabin mates. He’s a genuinely good kid and was simply doing what his parents taught him. Last year he received the coveted Teepee pendant, a sure indication that as a camper he had a shot at the granddaddy of them all: the Tomahawk Award.

Only one senior is eligible and he had this final summer to do it. [click to continue…]

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Jesus, Joni Mitchell and Me (A Confession of Faith)

by Bradley J. Moore on July 29, 2010

I reconnected with an old friend recently via the miracle of internet and email. It had been 30 years since we had last spoken.

Her name is Margaret, but I always called her Madge, and sometimes, Midge. Back in the early 80’s, when we both attended the same college, Madge was the resident Bohemian eccentric avante-garde dance major. She was a deeply spiritual woman, with piercing green eyes and long flowing chestnut brown hair, just like Boticelli’s Venus.

I looked up to her, and loved to make her laugh. There were some good memories.

The other day I noticed her email address listed in a tiny sidebar of the monthly e-alumni update, announcing some theatre production she was involved with. [click to continue…]

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Dreams: The Forgotten Spiritual Discipline

by Gordon Atkinson on July 29, 2010

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The following review contains no spoilers.

If you plan on seeing the movie Inception, you better show up with your brain fully engaged. This movie makes the plot of the Matrix look like an ABC after school special. Before you go, make peace with the idea that you’re going to have a hard time figuring out what’s happening. And when you leave the theater, you’ll have a hard time remembering the things you didn’t understand while you were watching them.

In other words, this movie plays like a dream. Which makes sense, because the whole movie is about dreaming, and most of it takes place inside the dreams of the people in the story. [click to continue…]

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Becoming One with Ourselves

by l. l. barkat on July 28, 2010

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L.L. here, thinking about one of our premier Network photographers—Kelly Langner Sauer. Not long ago, Kelly occupied two online spaces; her blog and photography sites were separate. But anybody who knows Kelly knows that her words and her images, her life and her camera, move together.

At some point Kelly told the world she was no longer going to try to maintain these parts of herself as separate pieces. She unveiled one beautiful, new, oh-so-Kelly site. I love going there. It was a good decision on her part.

Here at HighCallingBlogs, we’re feeling a little like Kelly these days. [click to continue…]

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If It’s Not the Swivel Chair: Managing Weaknesses

by l. l. barkat on July 28, 2010

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“Stop it!” she scolded. The little boy did it again. Turn, turn, turn, went the swivel chair.

“Just stop!” she raised her voice higher this time. He laughed, dark eyes wide open. Turn, turn, turn. His mother gave him a strong shake, jerked his chair towards the table, and stared hard. [click to continue…]

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Biscuit Weather

July 28, 2010
biscuits

My son towers over me. His broad-shouldered frame is lean and muscular, seemingly strong as stone. But he is not mine. I know that. I give him up each time he leaves.

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Ditch the Safety Talk: Work Dangerously

July 27, 2010
On the Rock

We are told to put safety first at work. But living to a Higher Calling means that sometimes we’ll have to break the rules – to live dangerously.

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In Praise of Fiction

July 26, 2010
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While skirting the headlines of the local paper last week, I was delighted at a little gem tucked away at the bottom the front page. The article chronicled a London theater group’s attempts to determine if being exposed to Shakespeare would increase milk production in a herd of dairy cows. The Changeling Theatre Company performed [...]

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PhotoPlay: The Visual (and Mysterious) Poetry of Thirds

July 23, 2010
Laura

Some break rules. Some keep them. Some do both and bear fruit from it.

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The Business of Playing Favorites

July 22, 2010
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The best managers spend more time and energy on certain employees– their top performers.

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Learning the difference between work and service

July 22, 2010
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Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit…John 12:24
I used to work for Jesus. Okay, to be perfectly honest, the treasurer at Covenant Baptist Church signed my paycheck. But in seminary we were taught that ministers really work [...]

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