by joncook | Oct 28, 2010 | Everyday Life, Purpose
I remember watching the Wizard of Oz when I was growing up. Side note: who didn’t think that those blue flying monkeys were the creepiest things ever? Leaving out the monkeys though, there were many great elements to that story, which is why it’s a...
by joncook | Oct 26, 2010 | Everyday Life, Purpose
Last November I had a chance to listen to Rob Bell share during his “Drops Like Stars” tour. One of the elements that he shared involved the Art of Elimination. The Art of Elimination is about removing those things that are not at the essence of what is...
by joncook | Oct 25, 2010 | Everyday Life, Faith Journey
Apparently all of the elements of the human body, including your skin, are worth a grand total of $4.50. Yes, someone actually calculated that and yes, that’s also somewhat disturbing. According to the US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, this is the elemental...
by joncook | Oct 22, 2010 | Friday List
Happy Friday everyone. Enjoy the List and stay classy, San Diego. Someone purposefully parked a van behind a jet engine to see how it would handle the engine blast. Apparently terrorists don’t have the best health care plan or else bin Laden’s former...
by joncook | Oct 18, 2010 | Everyday Life, Faith Journey
Recently I’ve been thinking about how much we have to “unlearn” as human beings. In fact, I’d say it is an art to be able to unlearn things in life. When you move into a new house you have to unlearn your old set of directions for driving...
by joncook | Oct 16, 2010 | Everyday Life, Faith Journey, Thinking
There are over 144 million blogs currently existing on the Internet. That’s approximately one blog for every two US citizens. If everyone wrote an average of 20 posts per month for an average of 240 posts a year, that would average to well over 34 billion...
by joncook | Oct 15, 2010 | Friday List
Happy Friday everyone. Today’s my dad’s 50th birthday so shout-out to the world’s greatest dad if he ever reads this. Anyways, do your Friday dance, do your Friday thing, and on to the Friday List. If you’re anti-yoga and can’t quite do...
by joncook | Oct 14, 2010 | Everyday Life, Faith Journey
Let’s face it, we’re incomplete. We’re broken, sinful, and in need of repair. And we try to fix the fact that we’re incomplete through a variety of ways: You might bury yourself in your job or career, trying to shake the corporate ladder...
by joncook | Oct 12, 2010 | Leadership, Purpose, Vision
Our Creative Planning Team is taking a sabbatical for the rest of the year. This wasn’t something that I had planned on happening but in retrospect I see a lot of benefit from this break. Over the last week or so I’ve done a lot of thinking about teams...
by joncook | Oct 11, 2010 | Faith Journey, Songs
A buddy of mine showed me this song last week and it rocked my world. It’s called “Naive” by Sleeping at Last and the lyrics are powerful. I don’t know if the artists of Sleeping At Last are believers in Christ but there is an incredible...
