Tide to Go and the Talking Stain

This has to be one of the funniest commercials I have ever seen. Thank you Tide to Go and the Talking Stain. You made my day! What kind of awkward or embarrassing interview experiences have you had?

When I interviewed at the University of Florida for the doctoral program in clinical and health psychology it was [...]

Practical Christian Living - From Consumerism to Contentment

We are experiencing technical difficulties with our email due to a website server switcharoo and so I am posting the content of our next LIFE group lesson here. Feel free to give feedback.
Icebreaker: What would have been your favorite thing about living in the Garden of Eden?
Last week we talked about sin in the garden [...]

Kingdom Consumerism

In talking about Kingdom Consumerism Philip asks the question, “does the 1st Corinthians passage about unity (“I’m of Apollos, I’m of Cephas, I’m of Paul, I’m of Christ…” bring anything to bear in addressing this issue? That is, in terms of churches making the statement, “I’m of Rick Warren, I’m of Bill Hybels, I’m of [...]

Just When You Thought You Owned Everything But a WordPress Hoodie…

After you purchase your new WordPress Hoodie here is something for you to consider…It is a nifty cover for your laptop for those sunny days on the beach. It is called, get this, “Lap Dome.” If I saw someone with that I would have a hard time not laughing. I am really sorry about that [...]

Losing our Sense of Wonder - John 2

When I read the story of Jesus clearing the temple I often wonder about how all those money changers got in there. Certainly no one walked up one day and said, “I have a great idea…let’s fill this place up so full of merchants that we will forget why we came here in the first [...]

Catching #756 & Finding Our Value

Barry Bonds hits home run 756 and the man who caught the ball, Matt Murphy, finds value. On the Today Show this morning Matt Lauer made the comment that this would change his life. Why is it that as a culture we find value in everyone else’s accomplishments? I think it was Tony Robbins (yes [...]

Christ & Culture - Beauty

★☆★ The Dove self-esteem Fund

The way beauty is defined over time and across cultures varies dramatically. We look to the arctic and to Fiji to find ideal body types that are much more robust than we find in Western cultures of today. We look to the past to the painters of Western Europe several hundred [...]

More Special K and Chuck Norris for President

It looks like I am not the only one speaking out against Special K’s new commercial and the message it is sending to our young women. See here and here for more.
Here is another interesting link for you. If you liked the Chuck Norris jokes of the past you will probably like this link from [...]

Special K Commercial and Body Image

Have you seen the newest Special K commercial? A very skinny lady comes out and is thinking about skipping breakfast in order to lose weight. She decides instead to eat Special K because that is a healthier option than skipping breakfast. While I agree that eating breakfast is a good thing, I can’t help but [...]

Consumerism And Committment

We live in a world that produces discontent. There are so many options and varities of everything that it takes us forever to make a decision on which TV to buy or which car to purchase. By the time we make a decision what we have bought is already out of date and there is [...]