”It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.” - Bill Murray [vc_separator type='full_width' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='' down=''] I used to think the best...
"Anyone who has ever painted or drawn knows the experience of dropping out of the world of words and time. A state of reverie takes over; there is no sensation of the passing of hours. The voice inside our head that allows us to talk...
This morning at our weekly meeting for Floodgate staff, Gary Molander dropped this thought on us. He said, (something like) "Maybe God is not concerned about picking up the pieces of our lives, and putting us back together. Maybe He wants us to be broken. After...
[vc_row][vc_column width='1/3'] Election time seems to bring to the surface our most cerebral ideals, and our basest fears. I find myself thinking a little deeper about how the world works, human nature, and what my part in it all is in the midst of all the...
For as long as I have been a church-going Christian (basically, most of my life), pastors have begun sermons with a joke, an interesting story, or ancedote. If the story isn't amusing, entertaining, or well-told, something crucial is lost, we start checking our watches. Even...
I have been struck recently, by the seeming convergence of some interesting developments in the secular culture and Christianity. Often times, such a convergence creates suspicion and skepticism, as we are called as Christians to be in the world, but not of the world. However,...
I was doing some thinking yesterday about which is a more effective way of bringing about change. Is it from within the system or from without? The argument for affecting change from within a given system, is that you have access to “the strings or...
I love the new AT&T (formerly Cingular, formerly AT&T, formerly Cingular…) commercial that features a dialogue between a mother and daughter that I am sure is pretty commonplace in many households. Thankfully, my kids aren't old enough to have their own phones yet so that...
My friends and I were discussing this a while back, and realizing that all too often, we push risk aside because we are afraid of failure. I know that I often become stymied because I am more afraid of failure than I am attracted to...