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Amplify

1 Corinthians 15:33 say's Bad Company Corrupts Good Character. 

I believe that with all my heart. I have also been learning that the flip side of that is just as true. Good Company amplifies Good Character. 

As I have been thinking about the 2010's I have been thinking about list of people that I am intentionally going to try to spend time with. I want to be around people who make me better. This is not an issue of influence, career or money. It is an issue of my heart. I want to be around humble people who are seeking God. I need God and I need Humility. 

Who do you spend the most time with? Do they corrupt or amplify the good in you? 

I am going to start by eating lunch today with this guy and this guy. 

Late Night or Early Morning

I have always been fascinated by sub-cultures. I stumbled on this video today about night shift workers in downtown Dallas. Defiantly looks like it's own little world. 

Night Cometh :: Graveyard Shift from TK McKamy on Vimeo.

What if your church had a service for those who worked the midnight shift? Starts @ 10:30pm over at 11:30 everybody to work by mid-night. There are thousands of people who work this schedule everyday and I have never heard of a church service for them. 

Sounds like a Jonathan Project.

If you thought the Kindle was cool.........

Great Song

If you have an idea.....

Check out this site. 

This has got me thinking about what the Jonathan Project site will look/be like in 2010.

Quote

"The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry man; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the man who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the man who has none; the money which you hoard in the bank belongs to the poor. You do wrong to everyone you could help, but fail to help." 

St. Basil the Great

How David Beats Goliath

I just posted that I read Outliers but here is a fascinating and free article from the man himself.

just can't seem to get it right......

Funny how a picture and title can make such a statement.  

We have all been in a situation where no matter what you do, people are going to be ticked off at you. Last night Obama got to experience this at a level most of us will never understand. 

What guides your decision making process? 

I all too often make decisions based on what will look best, not what is best. 

All to often external implications dictate what I will do rather then obedience. 

When I do this I know it's because I am seeking the approval of men and of God. What I end up doing is putting my hope and trust in my own rational. 

Instead I need to "put my hope in the living God, who is the savior of all men." (1 Timothy 4:10) 

I need to obey my God who's love I cannot earn, not try to earn his love by choosing to do good things that he is not calling me to do. 

Today is an exercise in obedience. Even if it ticks somebody off. :) 

Top 5-12 New Blogs I've been following

1. www.kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com Quite possibly the most incredible story you have never heard. 
2. www.givepassionlife.com/blog One of my roommates from college is currently roaming the world. 
3. www.michaelhyatt.com He is the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing. If you can read, you have probably read a book that has been published by them. 
4. www.soulcityblog.com a church plant in Chicago. Best line ever from them about planting a church, "were not planting a church, were expanding the church." 
5. www.stillsearching.wordpress.com I am very new to this guy but he did just write a book called Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide. Also does some serious movie reviewing! Which is good for a guy like me who goes to the movies once every 3 years. 

Africa Bound!

 Not me. Yet.....

But my Good friend with more names then you would actually believe is. (I think it really is 6 names in his official name) 

Check out his site HERE. 

He has a huge heart for missions (started this)  and is working a group called EMI where he is going to work with group forming a Master Plan for Christian University on the West Coast of Africa in Burkina Faso. 

He spoke to a group at my house tonight and he is the real deal. God is using him in a big way. 

We ended the night asking everybody if you were forced to go on a 2 week mission trip tomorrow (all expenses paid) where would you go and why? 

Since you most likely won't be going in two weeks chip in a few bucks to help Andrew do it! 

But Seriously where would you go and why?