As many of my readers know, I left my corporate job last year to pursue my dream of running Cross Focused Media full time. It’s been nearly four months since I took the plunge and I’m learning that being in business for yourself is a bit of an adjustment after 12+ years in corporate life. I’m [...]

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One of the things I’m passionate about in this life is books. HT: Jeff Oien for alerting me to the article 20 Beautiful Private and Personal Libraries on Flavorwire. My favorite was Miquel Mateu’s library at the castle of Peralada, Spain (below). Between the black and which pattern on the floor and the red chairs [...]

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It’s not my birthday for several days, but a few presents have already arrived. My mother-in-law blessed me with a copy of Courageous on Blu-ray and my sister and brother-in-law sent me a copy of How to Position Yourself as the Obvious Expert by Elsom Eldridge Jr. and Mark L. Eldridge. For the rest of [...]

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Rachel Held Evans featured a post today on her blog, where Jana Riess answers questions about her conversation to Mormonism and other questions related to Mormonism that I believe were asked by some of Rachel’s regular blog readers.  The post is available here:  LINK.  It was interesting to get an insider’s perspective to some common [...]

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Last week I found myself in a bit of a conundrum.  I wanted to participate in an upcoming blog tour for Planting for the Gospel (Christian Focus, 2011), but had actually lent my copy of the book to a friend.  Fortunately, the kind folks at Christian Focus Publications came to my rescue and provided me [...]

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I recently celebrated my 33rd birthday.  I’m never quite sure what my kids are going to get me, but I really felt like they wanted to put me into a sugar coma this year.  As far as sweets are concerned, I received two bags of gummy bears and a bag each of Reeses Peanut Butter [...]

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This past weekend, my mother-in-law gave us the wonderful gift of free babysitting for 24 hours.  When you have as many kids as I do, these types of offers don’t come along too often.  It had been more than 9 years since our last overnight trip away from the children, so we mulled it over [...]

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I was spending a little time reviewing the google analytics information for Bible Geek Gone Wild this morning and noticed that the 10 highest viewed pages this year are: Home Page – 4275 Page Views Continued Controversy over the Shack? – 1005 Page Views Cheap Book Stand from IKEA – 517 Page Views Does John [...]

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After 10 years of resistance I finally took the plunge and am converting from PC to Mac. I’m interested in doing more audio and video stuff for Bible Geek Gone Wild and I really felt that the Mac platform was the better way to go. I opted for the 13.3″ MacBook Pro. So far, my [...]

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If you have a Kindle or iPad, I encourage you to take a few minutes and listen to some of the innovative ideas Kevin Rose has for the social media potential of internet connected e-book readers.  Many thanks to Bitsy Griffin who blogs over at Jack Of All Trades (bgjackofalltrades.wordpress.com) for bringing it to my [...]

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