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Over the last year I’ve been experimenting with making some cash through advertising on this blog.
It hasn’t exactly been mind-blowing, but hopefully enough to cover the expenses of the domain name/web hosting and maybe better date nights with my wife (especially since we’ve both been unemployed the last year).
Google adsense has been fantastic, and [...]

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(I took this at the Museum of Play - Quote is by GK Chesterton who wrote “Orthodoxy” almost a hundred years ago)
Do you ever hear from seasoned leaders sharing about how they worked their butt off and grinded it out during their earlier years? How they invested, and labored, and pushed boundaries, and poured [...]

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An interesting image that’s been going around lately.

It’s by an artist named Lars Justinen from the Justinen Creative Group.
What do you think?
If you liked that post, check out…Worth dying for… by Lon on May 20th, 2008The mission is a movement… my story by Lon on March 3rd, 2006Hope is what the mission offers… by Lon [...]

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Well, it’s official, I am not a heretic. Though I think the rebellious part of me almost wishes I was.

Are you a heretic?
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You scored as Chalcedon compliantYou are Chalcedon compliant. Congratulations, you’re not a heretic. You believe that Jesus is truly God and truly man and like us in every respect, apart from [...]

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Leadership Network is in the middle of relaunching it’s leadership books blog. It will be the place for practical insights from books that leaders themselves are reading.
I got invited to be one of the dozen or so contributors in this collaborative blog, though looking through the list I’m definitely the newbie of the [...]

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Check out this six-minute speech delivered to the United Nations by twelve-year old Severn Cullis-Suzuki (Canadian environmental activist David Suzuki’s daughter). This was taped 15 years ago and it is still a riveting message.

If you liked that post, check out…Living Better… by Lon on September 29th, 2007Eating and Living… by Lon on September 13th, [...]

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There are many people on my contact list that I am completely judicious about sending emails to. I’ve always tried to reserve the tiny moments that I connect with individuals via email to things I consider vastly important, not over extending my welcome.
Well, last night I blew it all when I accidentally allowed stumbleupon [...]

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Yesterday a life group I’m a part of helped out at the “Out of the cold” program which shelters, feeds, and clothes some of Toronto’s homeless. A few thoughts:
I arrived late, and really didn’t help out in any way. Yet one of the ‘clients’ insisted to thank me, and that I was still [...]

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Not the brightest of videos, but I love the opening lyrics…
When I was,
A young boy,
My father, took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, “Son when you grow up,
will you be the saviour of the broken,
the beaten and the damned?”

If you liked that post, check out…Leaving work… by Lon on August [...]

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Dear friends,
Are you tired… of keeping the love of God to yourselves?

If you liked that post, check out…Solar Crash: 2007 round-up by Lon on January 9th, 2008Shaving my head… by Lon on November 8th, 2007A Stellar week… by Lon on December 8th, 2007Life update… by Lon on March 5th, 2007

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