21May, 2009

Father’s Day Gift Ideas

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Before you go buying that Bar-be-Cue accessory kit from Wal Mart, know that The Mentoring Project is working on a gift/donation campaign for this coming Fathers Day. We’ve already got many authors and musicians who are donating autographed books and CD’s as we are creating a catalog of stuff you can ship directly to your dad. And for every gift, I am going to write a personal thank you card to your dad, thanking him for being in your life. No kidding. What a blessing he is to you for sticking around. So, if you would like to get your father an autographed copy of Coach Tony Dungy’s new book Uncommon, or one of Randy Alcorn’s great novels, signed by the author himself, sign up on my e-mail list to the right and we will blast you an e-mail in about a week letting you know how. Comedian Nick Thune is actually donating his father! His real father (he says he calls too much, and wants to give him to a kid who doesn’t have a father. Very kind of Nick.) I will also be posting the items again on this blog to let you know, so keep a look [...]

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20May, 2009

MP3 Downloads

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We are planning a rebuild of the various Don Miller sites, and so the talks available in the store won’t be available for much longer. All the proceeds from the talk go to a good cause, but the availability is now limited. If you like Don’s writing, you’ll enjoy his various lectures as well.   Don is currently wrapping up his book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and will be recording the audio version next week in Nashville. Do forgive his absence from the blogosphere. We trust everybody will be rewarded when Million Miles comes out in September. If you’re looking for an interesting talk to listen to for your next road trip, jog or bike ride, we think these are pretty good. The Nature and Meaning of Love Don discusses the elusive idea of love, helping us understand the purpose and meaning of the most passionate emotions that humans encounter.  More Info On Hope Looking at Romans, Don discusses Paul’s understanding of Jesus as “our hope”. More Info For Artists: Creativity and Art, Why You Matter as an Artist - Video Don addresses more than seven-thousand artists at Willow Creek¹s annual Arts Conference, explaining the importance of the [...]

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11May, 2009

The Mentoring Project announces new President, Dr. John Sowers.

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For the last few months we have been interviewing candidates for the position of Executive Director of The Mentoring Project. We are pleased to announce we have found our man! Our vision of mentoring ten-thousand kids through one-thousand church-based programs is underway but it just got a shot in the arm. We will also be announcing new hires here shortly, but for now, by way of introduction is the press release issued by our Board of Directors. Thanks everybody!   **For Immediate Release** We are excited to announce we have hired Dr. John Sowers to lead  The Mentoring Project.  John has served on our board for the last year and we look forward to bringing all his talents and vision to head the project. As an executive committee, we have also decided to change the title of our lead position from Executive Director to President, so John will be taking on that title as he leads us forward. John grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas without a father in his life.  He came to faith in Christ at a Billy Graham Crusade in the 10th grade.  At the age of 18, a man named Bill Smith came into his life [...]

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10May, 2009

A Poem for Mothers Day

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If you’ve not sent anything to your mom today, feel free to cut and paste. This is a great Billy Collins poem that seems to sum it all up. The Lanyard –Billy Collins The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor, when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard. No cookie nibbled by a French novelist could send one into the past more suddenly— a past where I sat at a workbench at a camp by a deep Adirondack lake learning how to braid long thin plastic strips into a lanyard, a gift for my mother. I had never seen anyone use a lanyard or wear one, if that’s what you did with them, but that did not keep me from crossing strand over strand again and again until I had made a boxy red and white lanyard for my mother. She gave me life and milk from her breasts, and I gave her a lanyard. She nursed me in many a sick room, lifted spoons [...]

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08May, 2009

President Obama signs a proclamation marking today as the National Day of Prayer

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  Joshua Dubois (the man in the picture who is not the President) has been doing terrific work in Washington, serving the President as the head of the Faith Based Partnerships Council. Josh and I criss-crossed the country together during the campaign, and I found him to be a delightful and devout follower of Jesus. Recently Josh stood behind the President as he officially made today, May 7th a National Day of Prayer. Congrats, Josh. And thank you President Obama. Here is the official press release from the White House:  THE WHITE HOUSE  Office of the Press Secretary  For Immediate Release May 7, 2009  NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, 2009  – – – – – – -  BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  A PROCLAMATION  Throughout our Nation’s history, Americans have come together in moments of great challenge and uncertainty to humble themselves in prayer. In 1775, as the Continental Congress began the task of forging a new Nation, colonists were asked to observe a day of quiet humiliation and prayer. Almost a century later, as the flames of the Civil War burned from north to south, President Lincoln and the Congress once again asked the American people [...]

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