Um… yeah. But I don’t care how they market it… and you do know it *is* marketing, right? Free (to me) coffee is good. Grab your reusable mug and fill it for free at Starbucks on April 15, 2010! If you are in any of the following places… looks like you are in luck. East [...]
Archive for April, 2010
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 16th 2010
This brother puts out some AMAZING videos… like this one on Resurrection. Resurrection: Rob Bell from The Work of Rob Bell on Vimeo. At the heart of the historical Jesus story is the provocative, compelling, subversive, beautiful insistence that nothing can ever be the same again, not after resurrection. H/T Heart of Campus Ministry
1 Comment Scott Pagel on Apr 14th 2010
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Real Live Preacher Bible study is on
Last week I mentioned Real Live Preacher’s online bible study. Gordon just posted an update. It’s on. THIS EVENT IS Tuesday, April 13th at 6pm in California, 7pm in Colorado, 8pm in Texas, and 9pm on the East Coast. Anyone else around the world will have to figure out the time for yourself. Go read [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 13th 2010
Doug Lucas at www.brigada.org (and president of mission organization Team Expansion)asks: Here’s a question that many USA-based mission agency home offices are going to face: What impact will the new health insurance legislation have on insurance plans for their global work force? How will Obama health care plans impact our organization? Got any favorite website [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 13th 2010
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Husker Shrine
Over at HuskerMax.com they are highlighting a few Husker Shrines – fan memorabilia taken to extremes. In my opinion… the best one so far is #7. Clay Anderson, a spacewalking NASA mission specialist, couldn’t take a full-fledged Husker shrine aboard the space shuttle Discovery, so a Husker ballcap had to suffice. At 200-plus miles above [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 13th 2010
When we present the Gospel without modern Christian-culture baggage; and when, as we are making disciples, we model and teach obedience out of love and respect for Christ; and when we recognize the work of the Holy Spirit and do not usurp that role; and when we have the relationship patience to let this process [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 13th 2010
Failure has always been a part of my growth… physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, educational, occupational. It seems that as I grow, I also find myself failing. In fact, failure often leads to growth. Do we make room for failure today? Do we allow people opportunities to fail without making them feel like failures? Do people [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 12th 2010
Filed under media,ministry,taiwan
Taipei beats Singapore
I don’t know how to properly hat-tip a retweet in a blog post! This link comes from Carrie’s My Several Worlds twitter account and her blog is here. It was the mental image of chair-wielding politicians that I carried with me when went to Taiwan recently. The wife and I and some friends flew to [...]
1 Comment Scott Pagel on Apr 12th 2010
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B.A. – Face – Hannibal – Murdoch
WOO HOO!!!
2 Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 12th 2010
Math professor, programmer, and blogger John Cook discusses how work expands to fill the time allowed for it, and why the more trivial something is, the more time we waste discussing it. “Work Expands to the Time Allowed” – Lifehacker Whether it be as simple as writing a letter… or as mulit-faceted and complex as [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 9th 2010
