Archive for the ‘awareness’ Category

…coming soon: a blog-fast

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

a whole lot (fifteen to be exact) of bloggers are going on a trip to africa in several weeks with compassion international to raise awareness (and hopefully, child sponserships) for poverty in africa. some of them are amongst my favorite reads; los, anne, shaun... to just name a few. i saw ...

…one thing

Monday, January 21st, 2008

one thing matters today; unity. please take a moment to remember. after jesus, this man will be the next person i wait in line (probably for centuries) to meet in heaven. MLK Speech Video from cedarcreek church on Vimeo. we put this video together at cedarcreek, was shown this last weekend. i would follow a ...

…all i want for christmas (the rest)

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

this has been a weird journey. i started off strong, but i just couldn't summon the stamina to continue to find things that i really wanted. you all had to know what this was leading up to... the number one thing i want for christmas is for people to stop sitting ...

…a few minutes out of your day

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

...may help to save a life. a friend of mine is challenging the system here in toledo in regards to the homeless. he started a website, and created a video. please watch this video, and if you feel compelled to act, check out his website at 1matters.org and take action. [youtube kc2fKOELc3s]

…restoring christmas

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

i've been thinking a lot about christmas lately. obviously, i have my reasons; it's my job, i have a lot of responsibility at christmas-time, figuring out how to afford christmas presents for everyone, ecstatic that i was at least able to get my wife something for christmas for the first ...

…top five things i can’t stand about christians (one)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

i'm a facebook addict. there, i said it. *deep breath* i feel much better to have that weight off my shoulders. the interesting thing about facebook, is that even though it is truly a very watered down sense of community, it allows you to know certain things about people that you may ...

…here’s a great idea (fight the man)

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007



…site updates, some cool links

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

i cleaned out the link-love section a little today, as well as some updates to the "check it" section, here's a brief run-down of the new things i find interesting enough to pretty much advertise on my site... 1. banksy not really safe for work, or children for that matter... (not that ...

…john cena, cnn, wwe & steroids

Monday, November 12th, 2007

i watched "death grip," a cnn special investigation on the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional wrestling the other day. i'm not a huge wrestling fan, heck... i'm not even a small wrestling fan. i used to watch it a lot, so a lot of names are still familiar ...

…guest blog from ken leslie, founder of tent city

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

ken posted this as a comment to my tent city post, but i really wanted to make sure everyone saw it. i hope he doesn't mind. My reason for writing here is simply to clarify a misquote reported in Josh’s blog that I felt might be misconstrued out of context, and ...