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KILLER Interview For KILLER Tribes! (KILL Me Now!)

Are you going to the Killer Tribes Conference on March 31st in Nashville? (Circle Yes/No)

IF YES: Awesome! I can’t wait to see you there. I’ll probably be wearing my custom made Air Jordans that say “Flying J” on them. Now that you know that info, you’ll be wandering the conference staring at shoes trying to find me. You’re so silly.

IF NO: What are you, stupid, or possibly too far away for the cost of travel to be worth it? Cause one of those reasons I can totally understand, and for the other one there is carpooling.

Here’s a video about something!

And here’s the good news, children: Bryan Allain, self-proclaimed hopscotch master and host of the conference, was gracious enough to sit down (at his computer) for an interview (in response to an email) and in the process give away a FREE TICKET to the event! Did you read that correctly?

FREE. TICKET. To the event. Exclamation point.

So enjoy this interview, and check the end of the post to see how to enter into the drawing for the ticket.
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Angry Birds (Repost)

Due to a highly busy and bizarre week, there’s no NEW post today. I don’t like not posting new material every Wednesday, but you’ll have to excuse that every now and then. It won’t become a habit. I can promise that much. However, I did help Mandie Marie write a guest post for Rob Shep yesterday that you should read.

Here is a post from June of last year, which is likely well before you ever started reading this or any site. Enjoy, and don’t forget to check back Friday for a chance to win a ticket to the Killer Tribes Conference!

Angry Birds is a video game that exists solely to remind us of the futility of life. Since it was released for the iPhone in 2009, over 12 million copies have been sold. That’s through the Apple App Store alone. 12 million people willingly paid a few dollars to hurl little wingless birds towards some pigs that look like they went rooting in the wrong sort of ‘shrooms.

"Man, storing the TNT in this flimsy structure seemed like SUCH a good idea during the rave last night!"

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Real Talk

Thanks, DK.

Think back and remember the people who taught you how to view the world. That taught you what was important, not just spiritually, but in all areas of life. How to look at issues the way Christ would look at them. Their impact might be subtle and hard to notice at first. But when you think about it, it is wide-spread in your life.

For me, I think about two men in particular who taught me worldview. One was a teacher in high school, and he was taught by the other man: Dr. Wynn Kenyon.

Dr. Kenyon served at Belhaven University for nearly 30 years. He taught philosophy, but for every freshman, he taught Christian Perspective. He taught us what it meant to look at the world through the eyes of Christ. Any issue, any belief system, could be seen for what it was through those lenses. We weren’t brainwashed into some cult like many people think happen at Christian universities. No, we were taught how to look at things, ALL things, the way our Creator God looks at them. At least, in what extent our feeble minds could do so.

As my co-worker Beth worded it, “There are 30 years of Belhaven students who learned how to think from that man.”

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Real Talk

Where Young People Go To Retire

A little under a year ago, my then-roommate Stanton Martin and I decided for some reason it would be a good idea to blog.

After a few months of preparation and planning, and after he had moved out and I had learned how to read and write, we started writing. Neither of us really expected the amount of stuff that would happen between then and now, but it’s pretty cool knowing just how much blogging, social media, and the internet in general has impacted our lives.

For example, for a long time, I was Stanton’s “co-worker”, serving as the only sane person he had to communicate with while working at what seemed to be the worst office in the world. Through the power of the internet, we were able to chat throughout the workdays, helping each other survive.

Stanton was let go/fired/something just after a year of working there. Typically, his company would give a little paperweight to employees who had been there a year to commemorate this. Stanton just took one when he left. He then gave it to me, as a “thank you” for being sane.

It’s honestly one of the best things anyone had ever given me:

"You make the difference" - The most uninspiring phrase ever uttered

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