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HERE are some random thoughts about stuff:

In 2009, my family and I took our first trip to Greenbelt.  We didn't just *go* to Greenbelt, we DID GREENBELT.

A group of friends came along and joined us as we modeled our unique articulations of community and playful collaboration.  Before we went, the festival had seemed to us to be…

Here are the posts in order of most views in 2011 (some were written before 2011, but they received major traffic last year so they made the list).

The 100 Best Christian Books Ever Written…

Life together is way better then life isolated.  I know, I was a hermit for two years.  Sort of.  I lived 15 minutes out into the mountains west of Woodland Park, far enough to feel like it was sort of a big deal to go into town.  I remember some of the best feelings I had two years into that season were driving out of my neighborhood at the invitation of…

The lovely people over at Scripture to Music have put one of my songs up this week as a feature.  This song, ever since writing it in Ireland has just taken on a life of it’s own.  I brought it to Ben Pasley in the body of work I…

Your Bride, she’s beautiful when…

She opens her eyes…

She’s been purified…

She sings Your songs…

Of deliverance…

The Bride, the Church with a capital “C” is a beautiful thing.  She encompasses more then we know here in the West, containing a beauty that would be utterly foreign to us if we were confronted with her one morning over a cup of…

Jesus often comes to us in unexpected ways and unexpected means.

Think about how He came to Earth. For centuries, Israel had waited for a political Messiah. They expected Him to lead a rebellion and free Israel from Roman oppression. But how did the Messiah make His entrance? He came in a way that made it easy for His own people to reject Him. He came as a frail baby, born in a feeding room for animals. There He was. The promised Messiah who was expected to overthrow the…

Hi Friends. Just an "FYI" that I'm trying to simplify my online social life and make my time more efficient.

For that reason, I won't be blogging here any longer. Instead, all of my blog posts will be at http://www.frankviola.wordpress.com

There's an archives page (see the link at the top of the blog) that lists the most popular blog posts by category. On it, you will find a vast array of discussions on…

When Michael Hyatt (the CEO of Thomas Nelson publishers) got to his four year anniversary of blogging, he listed…