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12 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - The Havoc of Prosecuto... · 0 replies · +2 points

Abuse of the grand jury system.

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 20,000 Days and Counti... · 0 replies · +1 points

Like @cycleguy, I'm 60. Last Spring, after 36 years in Fort Worth, I packed up my family and moved to Colorado Springs for a new job and, my thinking went, a whole new life.

I've asked God to give me that mountain.

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - Creature of the Word: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Right now, my family is our church. We've moved to a new city and have a vision for starting a new church (or a new campus of the church we left behind and still identify with). Right now we're in a learning/approaching phase with our neighbors and are beginning the conversations about what it means (and doesn't mean) to be a genuine follower of Christ.

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 7 Tips to Acclimating ... · 3 replies · +1 points

Moved from Fort Worth to Colorado Springs a few months ago. I knew finding Tex Mex was going to be a killer, so I just decided we needed to "go native" and judge the local Mexican on its own terms--what do the people here like and make up our minds to like it as well.

Loving me some Colorado Springs now, but what will winter bring?

UPDATE: Here's the note I sent to El Fenix:

Help!

Just moved from Fort Worth to Colorado Springs.

No one puts chili con carne on their enchiladas up here.

Please hurry!

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - One Critical Leadershi... · 0 replies · +2 points

I was a member of a church where the senior leadership was continually surprised by the reaction of the congregation to their decisions. They obviously had very strong filters because they kept getting surprised time after time, watched the congregation shrink--and never changed their approach to decision-making.

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - My "Favorite" Bubba Joke · 0 replies · +1 points

When I was in college, I had a friend who told this one (obviously without Tom Cruise). Bubba was Joe Brown, mayor of Buzzard, New Mexico. The ending was a little different. In my friend's version, Joe Brown was on the balcony with the Pope and Brown's friend asked someone next to him, "Do you know who that is?" The bystander answered, "I don't know who the guy in the bathrobe is, but that's Joe Brown standing next to him."

Joe Brown's tagline was "Joe Brown knows everybody and everybody knows Joe Brown!"

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 2 Keys to Moving Beyon... · 2 replies · +1 points

This is so cool. This is the perfect time in my life to be reminded of these truths. I couldn't wait to share it on Facebook, because so many of my friends there need encouraging in just this area, and this post is perfect for where they are. I also hope some of my non-believing FB friends click through to read it, because it shows them a wonderfully fulfilling side to the claims of Christ. Good stuff!

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 10 Elements of a Great... · 1 reply · +1 points

Years ago Dallas routed all their downtown pedestrian traffic underground. And therefore all the eateries, etc. close at night. In prep for last year's disastrous Super Bowl (caused by Green Bay weather in the Sunbelt), ESPN scouted the whole area and chose Sundance Square for their venue. And they were glas they did, because when the ice and snow came, they still had complete accessibility to hotels, entertainment, and eating. Meanwhile, the journalists stuck in Dallas were confined to their hotel restaurants.

Here are some pics:
http://espn.go.com/dallas/photos/gallery/_/id/608...

13 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - 10 Elements of a Great... · 3 replies · +1 points

Even though we've now moved away from there, our favorite downtown remains Fort Worth's. Not only is its expanding central business district an exciting place to live, work, shop, eat, and and be entertained (you may have heard of Sundance Square), but Fort Worth has laid out plans for mini downtowns spread throughout the city. They call these Urban Villages, and they're smaller, fun, and more accessible places than downtown proper. Way superior to Dallas. I don't know of any place in Colorado Springs (where we now live) that can compete, based on the criteria you describe so well.

14 years ago @ Ron Edmondson - Leading From A Positio... · 1 reply · +1 points

Leading from fear is one of my soapbox items these days.

One thing I've noticed in the non-church workplace is that fear causes people to put their entire focus into placating their bosses rather than in creating excellence.

I work for an incredibly large retailer doing perpetual inventory. Nearly every day we are taken from our mission-critical routine in order to rush some process that should have been done routinely (but wasn't because we were taken off THAT routine in order to rush some OTHER process that should have been done [but wasn't, because...]).

The undone stuff just piles higher because all anybody can focus on is whatever they're going to get slapped about over. Nobody in management ever seems to notice what's causing their work to remain undone.

It's all up the line. Placating the Work Gods instead of doing daily what needs to be done.

It's because they're afraid of losing their jobs because of a bad visit.

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