A short story: I ran my first marathon in 2002.
It was the Twin Cities marathon, accurately billed as the most beautiful urban marathon in the U.S.
To prepare I read the book, “A Beginner’s Guide to Running a Marathon,” thoroughly following its instructions for practice runs.
I was ready.
If you haven’t seen the Avengers movie yet, you should! The movie got me thinking about how vital teamwork in ministry is because lets face it, no matter how cool or relevant we are, or how big our campus meetings get, college ministry will not be sustainable without a team.
The other day I wandered into the woods of a local park.
The combination of a coffee drink in one hand (a prerequisite in the Northwest) and a sunny day in April (a rarity in the Northwest) brought me and my two boys to a muddy little creek tucked behind a set of tennis courts in the very same park I had played in as a little boy.
The creek – which created a border between the park and a local neighborhood – was muddy and cold, but that was no deterrent for two ambitious and adventurous little boys.
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When the money gets tight…
How do you make decisions?
It seems that most of us have felt the economic pinch of our time, and been dealt serious budgetary cuts — and some have even lost funding for positions — in an attempt to make ends meet.
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