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25 June 2009 tagged 1930s, afternoon, coffee shop, comfort, comfort zones, computer desktop, conversation, date, direction, few minutes, future, gentlemen, God, god sets, grass, husband, internet, internet service, jolt, jolts, laugh, long time, monday, my wife, NC, old couple, old elementary school, opportunities, people, real estate agent, smile, Wondering with 1 comment
Our lives are not about us.
Three encounters on Monday proved to me, once again, that my life is not my own. Frankly, your life is not your own. We are to be servants. Sometimes it requires a jolt of pure opportunity and force to rip us from our comfort zones. [...]
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23 June 2009 tagged Broke, Case, dependence, depth, embrace, energy, friends and family, God, life, NC, new heart, opportunity, passion, plan, pride, Provides, realize, story, suffering, valleys, victory, world, year with 5 comments
What we can learn and gain from suffering….
• Gives your friends and family an opportunity to be focused on something beyond themselves.
• Helps you to let go of your pride and realize that you are not in control.
• Develops a depth of dependence upon God that you’d never know, otherwise.
• Provides another opportunity for us [...]
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24 March 2009 tagged accountability, bernie, community, costume, counselor, drastically, ear, era, evanblackerby, evanshawblackerby, exercise, financial, fraud, guilty, intellect, life, madoff, mainstream, massive, NC, opportunities, prison, prisoners, read, release, responsibility, scandal, self, simple, society, time, transgressions, weight, you with no comments
In the next few years, Bernie will be enjoying a simpler life. Exercise. Reading. Watching occasional television. He will probably even make a few friends. He will give up the massive weight of the past transgressions he has been shouldering for years. I imagine that he hasn’t felt this free [...]
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7 March 2009 tagged boy scouts, Build, evanshawblackerby, evanshawblackerby.com, experiment, God, kitchen utensils, knives, magnifying glasses, NC, old, responsible, tweezers, wisdom, young with no comments
“Be prepared” is what they told us when we were younger. We had knives with kitchen utensils, tweezers, magnifying glasses. We carried extra water everywhere. We barely threw anything away….because you never knew when you might use it. Always be prepared.
Why is it that when times get tough, we [...]
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3 February 2009 tagged Build, community, crazy glue, delegate, duct tape, NC, stickiness, sticky, Success, successful with 2 comments
Be glue-like.
Building a sticky anything involves you… involving other people. It has to be intentional.
A sticky community involves letting go; letting others step up. I was told at one point by a leader that, when we delegate, others may never do it as ‘well’ as we do. We [...]
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13 January 2009 tagged album, awestruck, awestruck church, bible, blackerby, blog, Catalyst, church, community, creative, creative media, evan, evan blackerby, evan shaw blackerby, evanshawblackerby, Facebook, Film, future, good, idea, launch, lead, leader, media catalyst, mini documentaries, music, NC, new album, ONLY, read, readership, record, release, social networking, thirteen, thirteen days, twitter with 4 comments
Sure, we’re thirteen days into 2009, but it’s taken a bit of time to refine our list of goals (or what a win would look like) for the year. Obviously, it’s good to have goals, but only if you’re going to do the work and make the sacrifices to accomplish them. Take them seriously. [...]
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20 December 2008 tagged 20, 2008, america, awestruck, blackerby, blog, blogger, boundaries, change, christ, christian, church, Credibility, david, day, depth, die, ER, evan, evan blackerby, evan shaw blackerby, game, gene schlesinger, gi, God, godin, Greensboro, ha, hate, heresy, hypocrisy, ism, JEsus, jonathan, josh parrish, joshparrish, katie, law, lawson, listen, lunch hour, mad, maddie, message, mike, more, NC, new, newbie, North Carolina, one of those days, pastor, people, pot, quo, ron, seth godin, shaw, sin, son, status, status quo, step, this, tick, toes, tom howe, tp, two ways, type, vision, way, wordpress with 3 comments
Seth Godin- Two ways to deal with no
Josh Parrish- Dragging vs. Flying
Jonathan Lawson- During our lunch hour
Gene Schlesinger- American Heresy: Gnosticism (be prepared for depth)
More pics of Mike and Vanessa’s newbie….Maddie
Tom Howe- One of those Days
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20 December 2008 tagged 2008, 50, big, bigger, black, blackerby, blog, christ, christian, christians, convo, courage, Credibility, email, esb, evan, evan blackerby, evan shaw, evan shaw blackerby, evan shaw blackerby music, expectation, experiment, Facebook, follow, ha, hungry, JEsus, list, men, more, natural inclination, NC, professional, purpose, reading, shaw, shaw blackerby, silent, simple, stance, Star, step, Success, them, things, toes, track, trimmings, twitter, Unrealistic, us, valuable, value, want, white, you with 4 comments
Nearly a month ago I decided to try an experiment with my writings. For a month, write things that people other than myself, will value, learn from, and things that might even start a decent convo.
I switched a simple white layout. I would rarely include videos or pictures (which is [...]
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18 December 2008 tagged actions, are you my mother, are you my sun, awestruck, blackerby, blog, blogger, center, choice, choose, christ, church, evan, evan blackerby, evan shaw blackerby, everyone, excellent, God, greater, Greensboro, hypocrisy, imperfect, JEsus, NC, North Carolina, object, orbiting object, other, ourselves, perfect, preferably, reflect, reflection, shaw, sincerely, solar system, something with 2 comments
I am imperfect like everyone else. So perhaps, I think that this makes what I have to say more valid. As imperfect people, we yearn for our lives to revolve around something greater than ourselves. Preferably something perfect.
Fact: We will center our lives around something or someone. [...]
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10 December 2008 tagged All, amazing, awestruck, because, blackerby, blog, blogger, christ, church, dog, Don, door, ear, ER, etc, evan, evan blackerby, evan shaw blackerby, excellent, expectation, forego, frozen fun, fun, get, God, good, gotta, Greensboro, ha, hypocrisy, inch, JEsus, list, morning, my wife, NC, North Carolina, race, real, rewards, shaw, shoe, shoes, sippi, snow, something, story, suprise, surprise, there, this, thought, time, Unrealistic, unrealistic expectations, us, white, wife, yard, you with 5 comments
My wife woke me this morning because our dog, Sippi, was barking (or coughing… hard to determine). She shouted “this is amazing. You’ve gotta see this.” I thought it was snow. Oh, the surprise good snow in years! I am so excited! There must be white, frozen fun [...]