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Here’s a couple of screenshots of my desktop–the before (after three busy weeks prepping for One Prayer and the Web site launch), and the after shot. So much more relaxing to get my desktop cleaned back off!
The Before:

The After:

Isn’t it somewhat odd how much little things–like a clean desktop–can affect us? It starts out just one thing, and then it becomes two, and then five, and then ten. Before you know it, you’re overwhelmed.

Ever been there in your life?

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I’ve been twittering (here) for about a week now, and just wanted to let you all know. If you are reading this via RSS reader, you’re missing a new addition to my blog’s sidebar, My Latest Tweet.

With Twitter, I’m giving you updates several times a day as to what I’m doing or what’s going on in my life at the moment. You can subscribe to the twitter feed to get text messages every time I update my tweet. You’ll have to play around with it. Feel free to start your own Twitter page, and I’d love to follow what you’re doing!

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I just wanted to remind you that this weekend, New Hope will join with nearly 1,300 churches from 22 countries for the series One Prayer. One Prayer is unifying churches from all over the globe to stand together and promote unity in the body of Christ. The series launches on June 7/8, when Pastor Diehl shares the message, Lord, Make Us Faithful.
Swing by the One Prayer Web site and join in the conversation (there have been nearly 500 comments on the One Prayer site in less than four days!).

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This afternoon, I went live with the new NewHope.in.

Special thanks to my beautiful wife and Luke for doing some proofing and error-checking for me the past couple of days.

I know there are still a few issues to work through, but we’re close enough, and it was time to pull the trigger. Please feel free to look around and let me know if you find anything broken! www.NewHope.in

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Here’s a small demo shot of the new NewHope.in website.

You saw it first here, people!

And, please don’t forget about the new series New Hope’s launching this coming weekend, One Prayer. This weekend, Pastor Diehl returns from his two-week vacation and shares the message, ‘Lord, Make Us Faithful‘.

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Darn. Apparently, I’m wanted in Hell because I like sports.

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After 18 months of planning and six months of working, I’m really close to releasing the next major version of New Hope’s Web site. This version of the Web site will include a major upgrade to the framework running the site, in addition to laying the groundwork for several more features in the future.

This project has kept me very busy the past few weeks…hopefully once this is rolled out development can ease back into a more relaxed pace…

Tags: website design

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This morning, I sent in my registration for a race in the Indianapolis region in a few weeks. My brother-in-law Joel did the graphics work for this race, including the t-shirt design, so I’m looking forward to getting to wear a Joel-designed shirt around.
This week, I’ve renewed my training after several weeks of taking off due to impending garden deadlines. It has been good to get back out there running. I’m taking today off and will get another run in tomorrow morning. Maybe I’ll get a long 18-miler in tomorrow. Maybe not.

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This week I’ve been really busy prepping for One Prayer, as New Hope will join more than 3/4 million Christians in 22 countries for a four-week series.
The series is being done jointly by these 1,100+ churches, promoting unity among the Church. This isn’t about New Hope Christian Center. It’s not about First __________ Church down the road. It’s about the Church of Jesus.
I’m really excited for this series! The launch is June 7/8, when Pastor Diehl will share Make Us Faithful. In this series, we will be doing some things we’ve never before done on a weekend!

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So we’ve already established the fact that I like to drink coffee. Let me rephrase that–I like to drink good coffee.

But as my coffee palette continues to refine, some of the little things I didn’t notice before are now a curse. Such as a travel mug.

We have several travel mugs–one of those plastic mugs with a lid so the coffee won’t spill. But here’s the curse–coffee tastes different to me now when I drink it out of a plastic mug.
Yes, I can taste a difference between coffee in a plastic mug and coffee in a ceramic, steel or glass mug.
And of course, all our travel mugs are plastic, so I taste sub-par coffee every morning, even though we only brew good beans.

Ahh…the curse of coffee.

Tags: coffee

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Indianapolis will host Super Bowl XLVI in 2012, the NFL announced today.

The Indianapolis Colts will open up their new Lucas Oil Stadium this fall.

Go Colts!

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