I am just an average guy writing about the stuff of life that gets me excited, makes me think, or keeps my attention for longer than two minutes. A geek at heart, I love to learn, and am always looking toward the future.
This past week WFAA Channel 8 ran a story that painted Ed Young, Senior Pastor of Fellowship Church, in a very negative light. The gist of the report was that Ed’s salary ($1 mil) and various perks (private jet, $200k+ parsonage allowance) are intentionally kept hidden from his congregation and he’s profiting from his non-profit [...]
Let’s face it. Even though the actual football being played last night was really compelling, the real reason to watch the Super Bowl is for the commercials. The early to mid 2000s saw a slump in the quality of the commercials (mostly website, beer, and movie commercials), but the last few years have seen a [...]
Have a few books you want to sell but you don’t want to get ripped off by Half Price Books? I’ve been there and I’ve found that it’s really easy to make a lot more money from selling books using eBay and Amazon. When I first got started I felt like I was spending way [...]
Over the past month or so I’ve been wanting to get back into blogging and trying to figure out what my personal blog should be focused on. What’s my niche? Why do people read my blog? What should I write about? It’s the type of questions that I believe every blogger asks at some point [...]
The Rock Church in San Diego is stepping it up. They’ve volunteered over 400,000 hours to the city’s mayor so far this year and will end up giving 600,000 hours by year’s end.
“What I like to point out, though, is that we are one church in one neighborhood, having this kind of impact,” said Pastor [...]
I used to be really cheap. If I had an option of buying something generic that would save me money over buying the name brand I would do it. Not only would I buy generic, I would ALWAYS pick the cheaper item if there was a choice. It seemed like it was the better choice.
Not [...]
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