I spent the weekend in Artesia, New Mexico. It’s a suburb of Roswell, NM. 30 minutes outside of Roswell you will find a blue collar, refinery working group of Americans. I shook a man’s hand he almost crushed every bone in my hand. He’s 82 and 6’4″. Their hands were full of callouses from pulling, [...]
THE WINNER OF THE CONTEST IS DEREK PAULO FROM SO CAL!!! Bring your dancin shoes Derek. It’s gonna be on… It’s simple. 70 watches sell… 1 kid gets off the streets in Rwanda and is fed and educated for ONE YEAR. Simple. Meet Janvier Nkundimana. The newest soon to be member of the Ragamuffin [...]
Listen. Here is what I believe. I believe that God created art. I believe that God created all people who craft His art. Jay-Z might not know that the beats and cadence he got came from something greater than him. Spielberg may not know that the gift of directing a movie came from someone much [...]
I was talking with Matthew this morning in Starbucks. He just hired a house keeper. Cause you know how he rolls. He said something interesting. “When you look at your own mess, and have been living in your own mess for so long, you forget how to properly clean it up. So you have to [...]
So, we sparked some legit conversation the other day when I brought up The Elephant Room Round 2. I told you we’d be partnering with them to have some heated discussion of our own. So answer me this: What topics would you love to see on our Elephant Room/Ragamuffin Podcasts? What blunt conversations can we [...]
Ragamuffins. This community is about creating conversation. Daily disturbing and disrupting the way we’ve always thought, always lived, always believed. The Elephant Room is about yearly disturbing and disrupting the way we think, the way we lead, and the way we do church. Why? Because we both believe that the uncomfortable conversations, the passionate discussions, [...]
Uganda has a bill that has a strong backing that will make being a homosexual illegal. Punishable by life in prison. Do you think this is an issue that people outside the government and citizenship of Uganda should get involved in or is this something for a country to figure out itself? Los
I’d like to address the MacPhail family. Let you know, despite the situation you are in, I’m not the one who personally killed your son, your father, your brother. I am innocent. The incident that happened that night is not my fault. I did not have a gun. All I can ask … is that [...]
I get it. We have problems. We have issues. We all have crap we’re dealing with. I know. I’m right there with you. Consumed. And for us, it’s easy to sit in our coffee shops or cubicles and see how big our problems are and forget. It’s time we open our eyes. Back in July, [...]
I’m at fault in this. In the Christian leadership world we tend to hijack the word community to somehow only relate it to Sundays or small groups. Um. That sucks. Cause that would mean community is not the 99.999% of other amazing things in this world. So this is a vague question. But I think [...]
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