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  • Never Make Them Mad

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    I used to try my best to make people happy… Never make anyone mad. Then, I came to my senses and realized… It’ll never happen. At least, if I’m doing what I should be doing. No matter who we look at over the course of history, anyone that did anything significant caused people to get…

  • Turn the World UPSIDE Down

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    Acts 17:6 “…These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,“ I came across this passage several days ago and it has literally kept me up at night. I so desperately want this to be said about me.

  • Top Posts of 2010

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    2010 has been a great year for me. I’ve learned, grown, made mistakes, and had fun doing it. That being said, I thought I’d post some of my favorite and most viewed posts from each month of 2010. As you click through, please feel free to share, tweet, or like the posts that are your…

  • Squealing Tires, Black Marks, & Moving Forward

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    When I first got my driver’s license, my friends and I used to have a little fun in our cars. What we did wasn’t that safe for our lives or for our cars, but here’s what we liked to do… We’d find a straight stretch of road with little traffic. We’d come to a complete…

  • 8 on 8’s – FRESH START

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  • 8 on 8’s – GENUINE

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  • Young Leader: Tweets

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    If you follow me on twitter, you may have noticed that I’ve posted random tweets to young leaders. While I am NOT an expert, I do think that being young and leading is one of the hardest things to do. It’s often a calling to lead those older, more experienced, and even smarter than we…

  • Live Up

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    Philippians 3:16 “Only let us live up to what we have already attained.” When I was growing up, my Mom used to have this saying she’d tell me after I did something that I knew I shouldn’t have done. Mom would always say, “Jonathan, you know better.” This verse kinda says the same thing… I…

  • Thoughts About Dead People

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    If people are asked when I die what one trait I displayed the most in my life, I hope they say dependability. It seems like a lot of us have forgotten the importance of being dependable and holding up our word. Instead, we’ve exchanged being dependable for being more productive. We’ve exchanged being true to…

  • I Cheated & Got Caught

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    A few Thanksgivings ago, I almost got kicked out of college. Seriously. I had a biology paper due the day before Thanksgiving break. Since I really couldn’t have cared less about biology (I still don’t), I just wanted the paper done. So, I did what any other upstanding, future ministry leader, freshman college student would…