by joncook | Dec 23, 2010 | Everyday Life
I’ve started to share a few of the lessons I’ve learned from George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life. I think a lot of us in ministry are victims of this next one. Lesson #2: Even if Harry gets to go off, do great things, and get all the...
by joncook | Dec 22, 2010 | Everyday Life
When I was growing up my family would watch It’s A Wonderful Life around Christmas time. Every year. Every single year. This year I’ve started watching it again and realized that there a lot of great lessons to be learned from George Bailey. Maybe what...
by joncook | Dec 17, 2010 | Friday List
Snow has finally come to Denver! Do your Friday dance, play your Friday mix, and cue the Friday List. Here’s a closer look at the Christmas Tree industry, a $2 billion industry with a capital B. A gunman robbed the Bellagio hotel in Vegas and made off with $1.5...
by joncook | Dec 10, 2010 | Friday List
Happy Friday everyone. It’s December 10th here in the Mile High City and no snow to speak of. 15 days til Christmas so cue Bing Crosby singing White Christmas and enjoy the Friday List. O Tannenbaum – Police in Berlin have found a pot plant decorated as...
by joncook | Dec 3, 2010 | Friday List
Happy Friday everyone. It’s Hanukkah, spin the dreidel and cue the Friday List. Admit it, the Hanukkah song by Adam Sandler is already playing in your head right now. Enjoy. New music video on Hanukkah – Candlelight by The Maccabeats. A Pennsylvania man...
by joncook | Nov 29, 2010 | Everyday Life
People talk about having a balanced life, that the ideal life should be in equilibrium with all of the demands that are placed on us. Whether it be work, family, friends, commitments, community, hobbies, and even our vacations, they should all be corralled into a...
by joncook | Nov 26, 2010 | Friday List
Happy Black Friday everyone. Hope you got your Christmas shopping off to a great start. Apparently the reason it’s called Black Friday is because it’s supposed to bring all companies who are running in the red back into the black in their accounting...
by joncook | Nov 25, 2010 | Everyday Life
It’s Thanksgiving Day here in the US, which means lots of eating, drinking, football, and early bedtimes with the two-fold purpose of sleeping off that turkey you ate and also getting enough rest before the 4 AM sales start the next day. Thank God for all of the...
by joncook | Nov 24, 2010 | Everyday Life
When I was a kid we had a book that was pretty popular in our family, Tales from Sawyerton Springs by Andy Andrews. It’s a collection of (mostly) true stories from this town that may or may not exist down in the deep South somewhere that was Andrews’...
by joncook | Nov 21, 2010 | Everyday Life, Faith Journey
Last week I got the flu, which is usually as enjoyable as getting a TSA full-body scan. One thing that happens when I get the flu is that my appetite goes south for about two weeks. Things are just now getting back to normal but for a while there it didn’t...
