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This blog is moving, so change those RSS feeds

I'm moving. Go to www.RandallLittleton.com/blog to keep up with the latest.

Seriously... do it now, and subscribe to that RSS feed. Stop wasting your time here... move on little buddy.

 

 

This is the email I got from my mom today

Sorry to be sending this by e-mail, but thought it would be easier than trying to call everyone.  Just wanted you to know that I am getting married.  I doubt that any of you know him.  After Easter, probably sometime in May.  More details later.  Love you all. Jo Mama, Grandma, Dolores

Introducing Gmail Motion

Looks pretty sweet! I'm going to try and be a beta tester.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu927_ul_X0

 

Reading fiction (or not)

I don't. Or I should say I rarely do. I've always felt when I'm reading a fiction book, that that the author is lying to me. He's just making things up. I know that sounds lame, and I'm ok with that. I'd much rather settle in with a good ole NON-fiction book. Give me  book wrestling with the finer points of theology, the history of Dr Seuss' work during WWII, or a leadership book. I like those. They hold my attention. They fascinate me. 

I also don't think we need to read a made up story when people's real stories are fascinating to me. Everyone's story is fascinating to me. I've yet to meet (well maybe) a person whose story is "boring". Now, they may not know how to tell their story in an interesting way, but that doesn't mean their story is not interesting.

We all have themes of love, betrayal, mystery, heart break, great achievement, moments of unexplainable joy, depths of depravity, great redemption. These are al themes in our life. I don't need a made up story to tell me those. I've got enough of those in my life. So do you. 

I think one of the goals of our life is to become good story tellers. Or maybe, to be better readers of our own story. 

The Aurora Borealis

It's hard to believe that this is real. I think seeing this experiencing this needs to be on my top 50 list.

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The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

I spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years.

Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east. Temperatures around -25 Celsius. Good fun.

Big thanks to the guys over at http://dynamicperception.com for their amazing all-in-one motion control dolly.

More info on http://www.tesophotography.com


Music is Gladiator soundtrack "Now we are free"

brothers

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Randall Littleton
Pastor

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How many uses for a paperclip?

A brilliant look at how we 'educate' our kids.

 

While you were sitting on your couch...

While you were sitting on your couch yelling at 19-year-olds playing basketball on TV, a 400 pound man completed the LA Marathon. Take that mr. potato chip.

 

From the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com

"After slowly but steadily working his way through a 26.2-mile course drenched by driving rain, mammoth distance runner Kelly Gneiting finished Sunday's Los Angeles Marathon in nine hours, 48 minutes and 52 seconds, probably establishing a Guinness world record for someone his size."

 

Brett Allen and Ashley Aucker

Welcome to music on mondays. 

One of my favorite aspects of my job is being able to watch people grow up. To watch a 6th grader begin to find his passions, to begin to figure out how she's wired and then actually dive into that. 10 years ago we didn't have any kind of music for our youth ministry. So I got a couple of guys and told them to start playing guitar and we started a band. There were just a few of us. Ashley was our keyboard player. 

I told one of the guys, Jeremy, to find some 6th grader and start teaching him guitar, because pretty soon he would be gone and that 6th grader would need to be ready to lead. That 6th grader was Brett. There is so much I could write about. I could tell you about the other guys that Jeremy invested in. I could tell you about how Brett, in turn, invested in guys younger than him who are now currently leading worship. I could tell you how Ashley has grown into not just a great keyboard player, but how her song writing has matured and developed. I can tell you about how she invests in a bunch of younger girls who aren't even musical. There is a lot to say. 

But I'll just let you watch these amazing videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_E9x_jQ4k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvmaGX3WhM