An Appointment with the Lord

April 26, 2011

Today, Kay and I have an appointment with the Lord. “Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.” Corrie ten Boom Today, Kay and I are engaging in the real action. “Prayer is where the action is.” John Wesley Today, Kay and [...]

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An Experiment

April 21, 2011

I’m sitting outside the Apple store. Stunned. Replaying the conversation in my head. “You can do without your computer for 5-7 business days, right?” Gulp! “Um, I thought that if I called ahead, had an appointment, explained the exact problem in detail over the phone, made sure you had the parts, then you could repair [...]

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Death and Life and Easter thoughts 2011

April 21, 2011

I’ve been continuing to think about some things from church this week. Death (Luke 22:14-20) The last supper: bread and wine. The bread. Jesus’ body. Broken. Crushing wheat is part of the break-making process. Leaven changes crushed wheat into bread. The wine. Jesus’ blood. Poured out. Crushing grapes is part of the wine-making process. Fermenting [...]

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Attention all grandads

April 19, 2011

Karin’s grandaddy passed away last week. She is a colleague. Karin wrote a powerful tribute to her grandaddy. I would have liked Karin’s grandaddy. Anyone who values drinking a Coke with peanuts inside is my kind of a grandaddy! It’s a Seabourn family treat also. For the Seabourns, little red spanish peanuts are the kind [...]

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One of the most courageous women I know

April 17, 2011

She is one of the most courageous women I know. I watched a video she released today, and I cried. I showed it to Kay, and she joined me in crying. Joyful crying. Kay and I have 2 videos from Christine we want to share with you. She and her special-guy husband made a huge [...]

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Simplify

March 28, 2011

Have you noticed how things tend towards increasing complexity? As time goes by, layers are added. Things are piled on. I like the approach promoted by Ward Cunningham, the inventer of the wiki. He asks, “Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution. You are always taught to do as much as you can. I say, [...]

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Technologies for a startup church

March 24, 2011

Dad, I’m pretty sure I’ll be asked to set up the church local area network (LAN) when I join Imago Dei church. I’ll probably set up some type of internet connection. What do you recommend for our startup church for file sharing, printer sharing, and internet connection? My son is finishing his degree from Dallas [...]

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Operational and Strategic Technology

March 21, 2011

By 2014, Information Technology shops will begin to split into two units — operational and strategic — under separate leadership. So claims an interesting video presentation by the Pink Elephant group, a leader in IT management. The entire video is interesting. This claim is made at the 7:56 point in the video. We discussed this video [...]

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Bouncing down the runway during an earthquake in Japan

March 15, 2011

We were taxiing to the end of the runway, maybe 5 minutes before full power would be applied and we would soon take off. Then it began to feel like we were driving over rough construction. The huge 747 bounced up and down, the wings flapped. It wasn’t nearly as bad as some mid-air turbulence [...]

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Developing Leaders in Technology

March 9, 2011

Richard has been to every one. Oumar has been to most as have several others. At this last Global Technology Leaders meeting, we had 28 leaders from 12 of the 13 areas of the world. When I was asked to pioneer the role of Chief Technology Officer for Campus Crusade for Christ, my assignment was [...]

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