http://www.mandoron.com Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:46:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My wife has been encouraging me to read Crazy Love by Francis Chan for a few months now.  (You can interpret that as nagging if you want to...)  This week's business trip to Florida seemed like a good time to start, so I began reading it a few days ago. [Note:  ... http://www.mandoron.com/2011/03/05/checking-my-motives/ My wife recently bought me a Stephen Covey "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" daily calendar.  While it's not quite as cool as last year's Fender Custom Shop calendar, it does have some great nuggets of wisdom. Tuesday, in particular, caught my attention: "Our level of development is fairly obvious with ... http://www.mandoron.com/2011/02/24/unfortunately-character-can-be-faked/ For the last 2 weeks, I've been reading the Life Application Study Bible Devotion on YouVersion.com.  Yesterday's devotion (referring to Exodus 17:2) really hit home: "The people complained about their problems instead of praying. Some problems can be solved by careful thought or by rearranging our priorities. Some can be solved ... http://www.mandoron.com/2011/02/06/stop-complaining/ As I was leaving Quik Trip with my coffee this morning, I noticed a Toyota parked next to me with the engine running and nobody home.  It got me thinking about some of the things that leave me bewildered. Here's a partial list: Why do people leave their car running unattended outside of convenience ... http://www.mandoron.com/2011/01/15/things-that-baffle-me/ My friend @mechem retweeted a link to an interesting NY Times project called Mapping America: Every City, Every Block.  I'd recommend checking it out. You can type in your city or zip code, and then check out census data overlaid on a Google map.  The initial map is racial/ethnic distribution, but ... http://www.mandoron.com/2011/01/12/census-data/ Greetings Earthlings! So... it's been more than 3 months since my last post.  And 8+ months since my last post that wasn't a Sunday Setlist.  After taking a little break, I've decided it's time to get blogging again.  But no Sunday Setlists.  Well, probably not. From the beginning, I wanted to use ... http://www.mandoron.com/2011/01/10/where-oh-where-has-my-mandoron-gone/ What a fun, but exhausting, weekend!  My daughter turned 9 yesterday, so she had two friends sleep over Friday night and a birthday party on Saturday with about 15 screaming/giggling girls...  I also had the great pleasure of seeing her baptized tonight at the GracePoint Baptism Bash!  A great end ... http://www.mandoron.com/2010/09/26/sunday-setlist-september-26-2010/ This week at GracePoint we launched a new series called OMG, comparing other religions with Christianity.  With all the stuff in the news lately, it was very timely to learn more about Islam. The setlist: Show Me What I'm Looking For by Carolina Liar (walk-in and exit) Let God Arise by Chris Tomlin See His Love ... http://www.mandoron.com/2010/09/20/sunday-setlist-september-19-2010/ Happy Monday! We wrapped up the "Jack'd Up" series  at GracePoint this week.  There's been some amazing stories about the jacked up and broken people that God has poured out His love on. The setlist: All Jacked Up by Gretchen Wilson (walk-in) Jesus Freak by DC Talk The Time Has Come as recorded by Jesus Culture King of ... http://www.mandoron.com/2010/09/13/sunday-setlist-september-12-2010/ Woo-hoo! It's been a couple of weeks since I actually got this out on Sunday... Today was week 2 of the "Jack'd Up" series at GracePoint.  The message this morning was titled "No Perfect People Allowed".  Props to Kelly  for sharing his story on video about how God had taken his jacked-up ... http://www.mandoron.com/2010/08/29/sunday-setlist-august-29-2010/