Pressing Forward
writings from a runner racing to get closer to Jesus
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Last night (Saturday, May 9) was the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. This seems to be a light-hearted, fun event, and has always been a place for our president, other politicians, and media personnel to joke and have fun while raising funds for charitable causes. You can read about it here.

President Obama [...]

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Here’s what I subscribe to right now in my RSS feeds via Google Reader, and I recommend them all (love this on my iGoogle homepage so I can see all my updates as soon as I open Firefox):

Adam Feldman blog my friend Adam’s writings

Challies.com especially for the “a la carte.”
Church Crunch technology and the church
Church [...]

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I must admit that I stole the title of this post from Dave Cheong. You can find his post here, and its a valuable read.
My friend Earl taught me the value of “cross-over principles.” He introduced me to writings outside of ministry that have so many basic lessons in them that could be [...]

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You have to watch this funny video!

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This is worth every bit of the next 9 minutes of your life.

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Today I had the opportunity to spend about 15 minutes with the 2 classes of 3 year olds at Bethel Christian Preschool, the preschool run out of my church. The purpose of this time is to let the kids get to know me better since I’m the youth & children’s pastor at the church, [...]

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I just added a new page to my site called “Currently Reading.” I thought I’d share with you some of the books I’ve read lately and am currently reading. Maybe there are some that you’d be interested in. Or why don’t you suggest a favorite book of yours here? Just leave [...]

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Just when you thought you saw it all when you drove next to a teenage girl driver who was somehow texting while she drove, this will amaze you! I have to admit that I did add unlimited texting on my phone plan, but I don’t do anything near this! READ THIS ARTICLE BY [...]

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The title gets your attention, huh?  I’m not a big Ellen Degeneres fan, but this video is hilarious!!  Check it out.

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I’m just under 5 weeks from my entire life changing.  It drastically changed about 4 years ago when I married my wife.  I had to stop living just for me and learn how to live with somebody else and consider her greater than myself.  I’m still working on that one.
And soon I’ll have to learn [...]

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On Saturday, June 28, 2008, I officiated my first wedding ceremony in Big Rapids, Michigan.  What made it even more special was that it was for my great friends Dave and Crystal Stuart.  We left Centrifuge camp real late on Wednesday night to drive to MI.  We got there about noon on Thursday.  We had [...]

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Click here to watch the video that just aired on the Today Show this week about two girls from Taylor University who were involved in a fatal vehicle accident a couple years ago. One girl died, but not the one the authorities reported! The girl everyone thought was dead was struggling to stay [...]

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Well, you can see again that it’s been a while since my last post.  I’ve been extremely busy with a lot of different stuff going on.
I started coaching JV baseball at a local high school. It’s a solid 2 months with 13 young guys.
A new worship time is starting at Bethel, which I’ve been a [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve written on here, so I’m going to try to update more often.  Sorry to all of you faithful readers…if there are any.
Just this week, my laptop “crashed.”  I was updating some software and when it wanted to restart, it never came back on.  It’s being fixed now, but for [...]