Three tweets from this week:

sun, i love you, i really do. but you are making my grass grow way too fast. can we work something else out? Monday 9:52am
rain, i love the way you sound out there, i really do. but you are making my grass grow way too fast. can we work something else [...]

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Anne Rice is living out my dream. I’ll cede it to her — she is more qualified. Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana is the second book in her historical fiction series about Jesus. In it, she combines historical Jesus research and fiction writing, and therefore two of my dreams/passions.
I think I enjoyed [...]

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There is an adage that celebrities always die in threes. It doesn’t apply to hard drives.
A week and a half ago, my buddy JJ called me asking me if I knew how he might recover files off his MacBook hard drive that had just crashed. I didn’t. Last I heard, he was buried in a [...]

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A little St Patrick history the Veggie Tales way….

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I can’t seem to stop thinking about mustard.
A few weeks ago in class, we looked at these words of Jesus from Mark 4:30-31:
Jesus said, “How can I describe the Kingdom of God? What story should I use to illustrate it? It is like a mustard seed planted in the ground. It is the smallest of [...]

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In addition to the bits I posted here last week, I have posted some more indepth reflection on our time in Austin on the Hodos Project blog.
A few have wondered aloud why I am maintaining a separate blog for the Hodos Project. The Hodos Project blog is streamlined and focuses on updates for those praying [...]

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Some thoughts from our final day in Austin:

We had lunch with John Berryhill from the Emerging Church Network. I met John in Austin a few years ago as he was helping to develop smaller faith communities throughout the city. I love his heart for cultivating churches that are meaningful for
those who aren’t followers of Jesus. [...]

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Some thoughts and reflections from day 2 in Austin:

Spent a precious few hours this morning with David Gentiles and Rick Diamond from the Journey Imperfect Faith Community. We really apprecited hearing what their community is all about and getting their perspectives on Austin. Thank you JJ for connecting me with David.
For lunch, we connected with [...]

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We ran ourselves ragged in Austin today. Some of the highlights:

Chris Marlow was gracious enough to set up some time to connect with several other church planters: Jonathan Dodson, Jeff Mangum, Jeremy Self, Jacob Vanhorn, and Charles Whitmire. Thanks for your time…I hope there will be more opportunities to sit with each of you.
Max was [...]

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