Beautiful stories

For those of you who don’t subscribe to our podcast, you’re missing out!

Not because of our savvy production skills or Thomas and Stewart’s great accents — but because of the amazing stories we get to share each and every week.

We’ve just published our sixth episode of our third “season.”

Here’s a run down of the stories we’ve shared so far in 2010:

David Timothy – Dallas SoupMan
William Stanger – Salvation Army Officer in Canada
Charles Lee – justice and compassion issues, co-founder of JustOne
Pernell Goodyear – Salvation Army Officer in Canada (part 1 and 2)
Jonathan Merritt – Why creation care matters

If you have’t subscribed, simply click here and all the new episodes will be downloaded every time you use iTunes — or you can subscribe to our regular RSS feed in your favorite reader as well.

Also, in case you missed it, my buddy Chad interviewed me over on Homebrewed Christianity about my novel. Really enjoyed it and was honored to be invited on as a guest.

11 must have WordPress plugins

I’m building more and more websites and blogs on the WordPress engine.

(If you haven’t taken a look at it lately, it’s so much more than just a blogging platform.)

I’ve realized more and more that I’ve got a number of “must-have” plugins that I install as soon as I setup any site I work on — no matter what it’s for (even my local demo sites).

I’ve actually tried to cut down on many of the plugins I used to use (I no longer use Lightbox on most of my sites, rarely use social button type plugins — opting to hard code the links instead) in order to speed up page load times.

Yet, there are some that I’ve become so accustomed to using on various sites that I get lost without them.
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How quickly life can change

In case you’ve missed the news — we have two foster boys in our home now.

They’re such a joy.

For their protection we won’t be publishing any photos and such publicly online and for now, we’ll simply refer to them online as N (the oldest) and M (the youngest).

And oh how quickly life can change….

What my master bath looked like on Sunday….

Red Oak, Texas Home for Sale

What it looked like tonight…

How quickly life can change

It’s been a challenge – but an absolute blessing as well.