Today begins my 12-week training for the American River Parkway Half Marathon. It seemed like a good idea a few weeks ago to sign up for it. It’s on May 1, just about 2.5 weeks after my 30th birthday. The last time I ran a race it was a 5k and I’m pretty sure I was in 5th grade. I remember doing pretty well – but…that was about 20 years ago, so…

As I was writing this post, Sarah asked me, “So, 3 weeks would be the 28th, right?” That’s the joke (err, I don’t know if it’s actually a joke, per se) around our house. 3 weeks is about the amount of time that I commit to doing something. I ran for a couple weeks back in August (you can see my stats here) but again, it only lasted a couple weeks. I used my Moleskine PDA for about 3 weeks. And I’m sure Sarah could give you other examples as well.

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I just wanted to let you know about a recent change here on Pomomusings. I’ve installed the IntenseDebate commenting system onto this blog in the hopes of improving the ability to have discussions here on the blog and to share things from Pomomusings with your other social media platforms.

However, if it’s something that is a hassle or if it’s something that you don’t like the look of (compared to the default WordPress commenting) I probably don’t want to keep it. I only want to keep IntenseDebate if it’s something that will be helpful to all of those who contribute to the discussions here on the blog.

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Ordination Update: Finally, A Decision

Many of you know that while I had planned on being ordained in December of ‘08 – things didn’t really pan out how I thought they would. It’s been over a year now since it all began – and while I haven’t wanted to rush into a decision concerning next steps, it became more and [...]

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Remembering: It’s Too Easy to Forget

Today I received an email from my buddy Keas Keasler, who is currently on a study trip in the Middle East with Princeton Seminary. The email directed me to a post he wrote entitled “A Pilgrimage (of many sorts) to Israel.” Reading through Keas’s post, as he was exposed to the stories and lives of [...]

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Uncommon iPhone Cases: Create Your Own

The above video shows you the new iPhone case that I made at getuncommon.com. These iPhone cases are made by a new company called Uncommon – they’re great because you can create your own case using any image/photo/graphic that you want. The quality of these cases is amazing. Both Sarah and I were VERY impressed [...]

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Tic Long Returns and Becomes New Executive Director of Youth Specialties

Later this morning, Youth Specialties will officially make this announcement, but I wanted you to hear it here at Pomomusings first: Tic Long is now returning to Youth Specialties and will serve as the new Executive Director.

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Very Bad Praise Music Lyrics

With the recent purchase of a new guitar, and my desire to get back into leading worship and playing my guitar and writing more, I decided it was time to weed through all of the worship music I’ve had on my computer since college and do some categorizing. I made folders (Good Songs, Okay Songs [...]

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My First Pair of Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars

Update: So, after wearing the low-top laceless Converse All Stars, I realized that my feet just didn’t work too well with that shoe. I need some more support and those shoes just weren’t giving me that. So I went back and exchanged them for a pair of Chuck Taylor hi-tops with laces. I’m currently trying [...]

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Sex & Youth Ministry

Sex and youth ministry. Not necessarily words that normally go together, right? I’d say it’s pretty safe to say that as a whole, we’ve really let our youth down when it comes to talking about sex at church. Before seminary, I served as the Director of Youth Ministries at a small church, and I can [...]

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Virtual Community IS Community – RIP @gideony

As I finished lunch this past Wednesday, I was checking tweets and saw the above tweet from Bruce Reyes-Chow. Then I started doing some searching through hashtags and people’s tweets, and realized that the news was in fact true: fellow emergent church blogger Gideon Addington had taken his own life.

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Faith on Campus Video Contest

Patheos has launched a video contest called the Faith on Campus video contest on their website. It’s being put on in partnership with Washington Post’s On Faith Website. It looks like a really sweet video contest, and the winning entry will win $2,500.
There are three categories that the video must fall into:

“Why I Am A [...]

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A Theological Statement for Your Critique

I recently ran across the following theological statement that belongs to a denomination in the United States. I simply offer it to you for your critique, feedback and thoughts. What do you like about it? What does it offer? What is it lacking? Is this something you could stand behind?
“The [insert Denomination Name] acknowledges as [...]

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