Stac’s Place

I fell asleep last night on the couch about 7:30. It was weird. Kim says that she tried to wake me up around 11:30. I vaguely remember seeing a few scenes of Dirty Jobs at some point. I got off the couch and went to bed somewhere around 2:30. Weird.
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I have admitted unashamedly that I am a fan of Hannah Montana, right? It’s a good tv show, usually packing a moral lesson into the mix of hilarity and hijinx from Hannah/Miley Cyrus. My kids walk around the house singing her songs. Lilly read one of the Hannah Montana books today, and [...]

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That’s me, at 12 years old…I don’t want to admit it. After all, I am a die-hard national league baseball fan. I tend to agree with Mark McGwire (from an ESPN article by Alan Schwarz)
Ask almost any major-leaguer who has played in both leagues, and he’ll tell you he prefers the National [...]

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I got home from XStream in time to catch some of the World Series game 1. The Rockies, having swept the Diamondbacks, are coming off 8 days of rest, while the Red Sox played 7 games against the Cleveland Indians, winning the final 3 games of the ALCS to get into the World Series. [...]

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Our staff was out of the office today. We try to do an of-site staff retreat a couple of times each year. Instead of us all going away together this time, we were given a day away to spend in prayer–sort of a personal retreat.
I spent the morning at home reading and praying. [...]

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Kim and I took the kids to the Steven Curtis Chapman concert tonight, sort of. We are in the process–the LONG process–of adopting a baby girl from China through America World Adoption Agency. We have been playing the waiting game since June of 2006, and we’re not projected to travel to China until [...]

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There’s a bunch of us at church today for the Lead Like Jesus simulcast. I have to admit, I wasn’t sure about today’s seminar. I love listening to Erwin McManus, but I don’t know that I’ve ever read or heard Ken Blanchard. But I’ve been in a pretty heavy place emotionally and [...]

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Tonight at XStream we continued the discussion about following Jesus with our middle school students. I could say that we lined out a pretty good start for these young men and women. I could say that we provided them with the basic ideas of discipleship.
But I don’t think that I have ever felt [...]

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I know that it was a huge box office flop. I know that it cost gazillions of dollars to make, and that Costner overreached. I know that it was a colossal bust, and that the experts panned the whole post-apocalyptic thing. I don’t think that he cares. See The Postman if [...]

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I don’t even know these people, but Falling Creek Camp looks like something that I would have loved as a kid. It’s close to my parents, and I found it while looking for a Wilderness First Aid course. Their camp promo video is enough to make me think about sending my son there [...]

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