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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men: Remodeling

I had a pretty active weekend, in addition to the Easter plans and Angel Food distribution, I also helped prep my parents kitchen for new counter tops. They ordered the counter tops a couple of weeks ago, and later that same week someone came out to take the final measurements and make a template. They scheduled for the new counter to be installed today, so we had to work hard all weekend to get things ready. Monday we pulled the old counter and sink, expecting a new one to be in place by dinner Monday. The installers didn't come at the earliest part of their time span, which is fine … [Read more...]

Today is my third post in the “Who is God” series on Make a Difference to One. I’m explaining “Spirit” and how we can use simple analogies that are fun for kids to explain a very complex concept. Click through for the full article.

Apr

Who is God: God is … Spirit #MyExperienceAs #guestposts #JesusFreak #Writer via @Nick_theGeek

God Is… Spirit

“Telling lies about others
is as harmful as hitting them with an ax,
wounding them with a sword,
or shooting them with a sharp arrow.”

Apr

Proverb a Day 25:18 #MyExperienceAs #JesusFreak #ProverbaDay via @Nick_theGeek

~Proverbs 25:18
New Living Translation

“My child, eat honey, for it is good,
and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste.
In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul.
If you find it, you will have a bright future,
and your hopes will not be cut short.”

Apr

Proverb a Day 24:13-14 #MyExperienceAs #JesusFreak #ProverbaDay #YouthPastor via @Nick_theGeek

~Proverbs 24: 13 & 14
New Living Translation

The Day Someone Did Not Find What They Were Looking For

Yesterday we had our Easter Egg hunt. Before we actually start looking for the eggs I like to have a very short, like 5 minute, talk with the kids. I started it off by having them all come up for Easter Eggs. I was throwing them out at the parents and older siblings too. I let them yell and scream and even eat the candy in the egg they got. With kids it is important to make sure they can be as loud as possible, that's the only way to know they are having a good time. Youth are good at this too, and sometimes when I preach in "big" church I think about trying to get the adults to yell in … [Read more...]

When Good Kids Get Better

It is so easy to focus on the students that let you down, that you pour time and energy into and who leave to do their own thing. A while back I saw one of the girls that I had an opportunity to reach out to for a few months, but who never really responded to the sermons, everything was just about hanging out with friends. We had to go way out of our way to pick her up and drop her off while shew as coming. When I saw her she had a baby of her own. I felt that I had some how failed and wondered if there was anything I could have done differently. I get hung up on things like that. I … [Read more...]

“Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich.
Be wise enough to know when to quit.
In the blink of an eye wealth disappears,
for it will sprout wings
and fly away like an eagle.”

Apr

Proverb a Day 23:4-5 #MyExperienceAs #JesusFreak #ProverbaDay #YouthPastor via @Nick_theGeek

~Proverbs 23:4-5
New Living Translation

I wrote about the Gallery post format output change on my Design Blog with detailed instructions on the code I wrote and exactly what it does.

Apr

In case you were wondering, I did update the gallery output on my blog #MyExperienceAs via @Nick_theGeek

Changing the Gallery Post Format Output

Just looking at how Matt Mullenweg handles Galleries according to this article on Post Types, Taxonomies, and Formats by Otto. I think I’m going to rewrite the Gallery format for my version of Tapestry to emulate that.

It will be much more functional if the gallery ever has more than a few images.