Understanding the fine print

Stacks

As part of our training to be foster parents, we were required to make a set of family rules. It seemed almost funny to come up with house rules, knowing we were wanting an infant or toddler at the oldest.

They’re broad and yet basic. Not super specific.

And of course, our first test of these rules, our first placement — two toddlers.

I considered reading all the rules to them (I think there are 7 or 8 rules) but in reality it wouldn’t make any sense to them.

Instead of focusing on the big picture rules, we have to daily remind them of the fine print.
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The Big Red Tractor

From Francis Chan:

Excellent!

How does your community of faith compare? Are you trying to push the Big Red Tractor with your own strength, or putting its true power source to full use?

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Add a Buzz This button to your WordPress blog

Last week Google released Buzz to the masses — with mixed reviews.

Love it or leave it, it’s another avenue to help share your content with others.
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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.