Been studying “time”. Life looks different when you speed it up or slow it down.

Here is some great art created by slowing down a bullet.

Last years Catalyst was themed “together”.

This is my contemplation of that concept.

Ok i haven’t written anything in a long time. Way too much going on in my life to find the time to put anything worth while here …until ….tonight.

I saw this video and went….” wow, i didn’t know that could be done. So, even though it’s not my video i am putting it here and if you haven’t seen it yet, take a look. 

Penn and Teller are two guys who have been around for a long time. Penn has never been shy about stating his atheistic views and scoffing at many of the views many of us have.  I found this video blog from him fascinating.  I don’t think i need to try to explain the implications here. But it seems pretty important to me.

I am gonna give away six books at the end of this blog.

I read books.  All the time. Every day. Not all the time every day, but you know what i mean.  I even own a kindle and have bought one for some friends and i now have the kindle in my iphone. I read books on Physics, and comedy, and writing, parenting, economics, business, marketing, novels (sometimes), biographies, heck i even read my own book God’s Blogs 4 times.  All that to say….they all usually provide insight or information and sometimes wisdom that i can glean and learn from. But, i am taking time on this blog to tell you about one that you should read. I know a lot of pastors read this strange blog of mine, and lot of leaders do as well, so this book I’m talking about is for you too.

Andy Stanley just finished his book “The Principle of the Path”.  It sounds kind of simple. It is ….but…it’s freaking brilliant.  I think i can say freakin here. It’s just an adjective that we made up to give some zest to the word following it.  It’s brilliant because it’s about a principal that he explains that is guiding us whether we know it or not. And since that is true we need to know about it so we can use it to help us get where we want to be. Andy amazes me constantly because he takes brilliant ideas and makes them simple to understand. And they are always life-givers.

He’s written a lot of other books.  I am particularly fond of “The Best Question Ever” …mainly because that one was dedicated to me.  I read the dedication about 100 times.  But, leaders, buy this book. For two reasons.  You need to speak to your followers about this principle. And you may indeed still need to know this. We are going through some very weird times in our world and in the good ol USA…and things may not be picking back up as quickly as we hope. This book is imperative for those who may not yet understand this idea. Dave Ramsey talks about it. Franklin Graham talks about it. So does Andy Andrews. Now I am.

Just to make it interesting. There’s a video on bigstufmedia.com. It’s called happy together.  If you go watch it and tell me who the main two characters are in the video, and you are one of the first six to do so, i will send you one of Andy’s books. You also have to tell me about a book you absolutely firmly without question know i need to read…tell me that too. I’m not givin’ away these books for you to do nuthin. 

But, you will be glad you played the game.

I’m gonna put a picture of the cover here and a link to go buy it.

link  http://resources.northpoint.org/store/shop.do?cID=75&pID=1751

cover

Ok, 7 million people have seen this but just in case you are one who hasn’t, i felt the need to put it on here. Very cool. It won’t embed here so you gotta go to the youtube page….check it out.

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM&feature=email

So, Catalyst has asked me to do a few random blogs….the video kind….vlogs….

For those of you who watched my gadget review some of this is a repeat but hey, some of it’s new and just darn exciting….If you like gadgets.

I am gonna keep bringing back the video for our film festival but meanwhile, i wanted to show you something that thrilled my soul. I got permission from Sarah to show this. We do baptism videos at our church quite often and people get to tell their story. Sarah told hers and my soul was thrilled because her life changed. And her life changed because God is using 24 little kids from Africa to touch the hearts of people all over the world. Little kids that seem to have nothing, yet, thru their faith in God have everything they need. Watch Sarah’s video.

Hey, Bigstuf is sponsoring a film festival, We are looking for the best film 3-10 minutes long on the theme of “time”.   Winning includes $2500 plus exposure to thousands of people. All details will be on bigstuf film festival web site within two day. I think its gonna be bigstuffilmfestival.com

Here is the little video i made to let some folks know about it.