I’m a stats freak.  I love them even though I, ironically, almost failed my “statistics” class in college which was required for my Sociology minor (but I digress). My new addiction, thanks to Blake Bergstrom, is Geo Hive. This site is full of interesting international statistics like the following graph… I’ve blogged a lot about [...]

I actually ran across a website yesterday called “The Mother of All Excuses” (No, I wasn’t looking for one).  It exists so people can share excuses they’ve used and so others can read them and take advantage of them. There are literally thousands of excuses for being late to work, missing work, cutting class, cheating [...]

For the past several weeks I’ve been on a July “study break.” This is a month that I usually don’t write new messages (I still speak at other churches some) or hold any intense meetings. I keep up with email, chat with a few staff, attend a few meetings, but for the most part it’s [...]