Theological Word of the Day

Lately, I’ve been benefiting from the Theological Word of the Day Blog.  I’ve added it to the top of my Google Reader and enjoy stretching my mind in this direction on a daily basis.
Enjoy.

Major Causes of Procrastination

(From AAIM seminar on Getting Things Done):

Avoiding an unpleasant task.
Lack of energy/motivation.
Escaping from an overwhelming project.
Don’t know where to get started.
Don’t know what to do next.
Just completely overwhelmed by the quantity of stuff to do in general.
Unclear goals.
Urgency addictions (i.e. you thrive off of urgency)
Psychological defense mechanism to protect you from fear of failure, [...]

A 25th Hour

I was recently in a group of people to whom the question was posed: what would you do if you had an extra hour every day? How would you spend it (sleeping was a prohibited response)? Most of the answers from the group surrounded family (more time at home, more time with kids) or self [...]

Big Head Todd in O’Fallon

I’m really, really excited about this.

Missions-Minded vs. Missional

Brent has written an excellent post over on his Colossians Three Sixteen blog on the confusion surrounding the term “missional” and has done a good job of distinguish between a “missions-minded church” and a “missional church”.
Drawing largely from Ed Stetzer, Brent writes:
But we need to be careful and make a distinction between “Mission(s)-Minded” churches and [...]

Life Sounds

It seems to me that certain periods of life are marked by certain music. In college, for me, it was anything by the Dave Matthews Band or Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Meg and I moved here to St. Louis in the summer of 2002 and agree that two albums specifically mark [...]

Acts 29 Quarterly Regional

Today I attended the Acts 29 Regional which was held at The Journey here in St. Louis.  You can read the description of the event here.
It was a great day and I really appreciated Daniel Montgomery’s (Lead Pastor of Sojourn Community Church) presentation of the Christ-centered church and Christ-centered life.  He really helped me to [...]

Old Testament History – Part 17

Tomorrow night will be the second to last class in our study through the Old Testament Historical books.  In this session, we’ll be looking at the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.  The notes for tomorrow as well as the synthetic outline for Ezra-Nehemiah are below.

Ezra-Nehemiah Synthetic Outline
Ezra and Nehemiah

 
Next week will be our wrap up [...]

Getting Things Done – Part 2

This is Part 2 of a blog series on Getting Things Done.  See also: Part 1 (Categorizing Your Tasks).
 
Living in Quadrant 2: Important/Not Urgent
In Part 1, I shared a model for categorizing tasks.  I stated that Quadrant 2 (Important/Not Urgent) is where we want to live and be.  This is the important quadrant to manage [...]

Back-Words

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

OT History – Part 16

I’m a little late with uploading the notes for tonight’s OT History class.  Tonight we’ll be looking at a broad overview of 1&2 Kings tonight and touching on 1&2 Chronicles as well.  The main intent for tonight is to help the class to be able to see how they should study Kings and Chronicles and [...]

Making a Book Your Own

Tim Challies shares a quote from Mortimer Adler, author of the classic How to Read a Book.  I read something similar in a book several years ago by J.P. Moreland  (Love the Lord Your God With All Your Mind) and allowed it to revolutionize the way I read books.
Here is a quote from Mortimer Adler, [...]

Life Admin

Recently I’ve decided to add a little more structure to how I go about my life.  I’m calling it “Life Admin.”  Basically, I’m making it my goal to sit down for an hour or so on the first Monday of the month blocking out some time to reflect on the previous month as well as look [...]

You Might Live in the Bible Belt If…

You might live in the Bible Belt if…there are 7 churches between your house and the nearest grocery store (…and another one just one block further…and none of them are your home church).
Take a closer look by clicking on the Google map below.

Getting Things Done – Part 1

Getting Things Done – Part 1

As a continuing part of a leadership development program that I am involved with at work, today I attended another AAIM seminar.  Today’s seminar was a full-day seminar focusing on Personal Productivity (i.e. Getting More Done / Getting Things Done).  I’ve been looking forward to this seminar for a [...]

Book Fair This Weekend

My wife and I are excited for the 59th annual Greater St. Louis Book Fair going on this weekend at West County Center (i.e. the east parking garage at the West County Mall). Most everything there is priced between $1-$5. I’m looking foward to scavenging around for some good finds.
Here is the time [...]

Redbirds Win This One

I took my daughter to her first ever Cardinals game this past Tuesday.  In her first outing she got to witness a double-pickle play and also an inside-the-park homerun.  The Cards won 7-2 (and all even though we only stayed for a couple of innings – we got to see all 7 runs scored).
My wife has [...]