Yesterday was MISE2010 in Portland- and it was awesome! To help prevent the food comas that usually set in after lunch, we (The MISE2010 Team) put together a this little video.

Enjoy!

I had a blast hanging out with Brett Eddy, Michael Forney, Jesse Rice, Jake Schwein, Renee Johnson, Jim Gray, Aaron Smith, Tim Engstrom, Tyler Braun, Jenni Clayville, and Brett Aljets and am looking forward to the next MISE2010 in the early fall- stay tuned for deets on that!

This is a repost of sorts. I originally talked about this here, but I’ve had enough questions regarding it as of late, I thought it merited a revisit.

I ♥ WordPress. It’s the platform I use to develop all my sites.

I switched from WordPress.com to WordPress.org a little over a year ago, and have loved it!

If you’re wondering what the difference is, check out this sweet infographic after the jump.
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I’ve been so graciously given the opportunity to do some guest posting on one of the best faith-based, media-centric blogs around today- MEDIASALT.

For the next couple months myself and a few other folks are going to be guest posting on MEDIASALT.

My first post of four is up today, and I’d appreciate you taking the time to not just check it out, but check out MEDIASALT as a whole as well. Eric and Cleve are doing really great stuff, and I absolutely love their tagline for the site:

God isn’t bland. The Church shouldn’t be, either.

Word.

OK. If you’re in an RSS reader, please jump out and come to the blog. Please, please, please!

This has the potential to be epic- and if not, pretty cool.

A couple points of order.

• Do have clothes on. I’m going to ask you to submit your video via Vimeo or YouTube, so please make sure that your content is PG and that you’re ok with it being public.
• This isn’t going to scare, embarrass, shame, or otherwise do anything demeaning to anyone. This is just fun. (If at the end of this you don’t want to submit you’re video- you don’t have to! Problem solved right? Cool- glad we agree.)

There are some things you’ll need in order to participate.

1. Computer (hopefully you’ve all *checked*)

2. Webcam or video camera.

2.5 Decent lighting. Please just turn the light switch on in the room your in. Your face needs to be clearly viewable, please.

3. Ability to follow instructions. (seriously, if you can’t do this, just stop now. This entire experiment hinges on your ability to follow directions precisely.)

Get ready to begin after the jump- and DO NOT scroll to the bottom! Follow the directions, please!
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I posted about this before here, and this has been making the rounds for a bit now- so I thought I’d throw mine into the mix.

Which is closest in likeness?

Hope. It’s a funny thing, eh?

It rises and falls like the tide on this ever changing sea we call our emotions.

It’s been used in book and movie titles, and even as part of political campaign slogans.

Today, at least for me, hope became more real and reached new heights of clarity with one statement:

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No- ‘IT’ is not sex. At least not in this case.

Yesterday I mentioned that I doubt. Today I’m pretty much vurping (vomit-burp: not a full vomit, but still not pleasant and definitely not fun like a burp).

Jason Boyett wrote a book O Me of Little Faith- and I’m probably going to read it.

Today he asked the question: How do doubters achieve a balance between honest questioning, personal transparency, and concern over the spiritual well-being of non-doubters?

Here’s my answer in the comments on that post:

wow.

Yeah- I need to read this book (or maybe I don’t).
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I have doubts. Unbeliefs. Approval-denials.

I really hope this isn’t a surprise to anyone.

The problem is that I didn’t think I had them. (And, I still don’t know if my doubts are real.)

I am constantly telling myself that doubts are fear-based thoughts. That they’re not really real.

THEY ARE REAL- they exist. Small to large, minute to ginormous, funny to serious, uneventful to life-changing, secular to religious.

The hardest part is that, at the same time, I hate them and cling to them.
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