Archive for December, 2008

Top 10 Posts of 2008

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Below are my 10 blog posts that had the most individual views in 2008:

  1. How to make disciples – the simple way, part 1 and part 2
  2. What really happened to John James of the Newsboys
  3. Contextualization: Can a Muslim or a Hindu be a Christian?
  4. The most important spiritual discipline for new disciples
  5. I’m quitting church planting
  6. Interesting cultural distinctives of India
  7. A crisis of identity
  8. Hugh Gallagher’s college application essay
  9. Lauryn and Molly in the 20th of November parade
  10. Ways to get around in India

I’ll be back with more blogging in 2009. Have a happy New Year!

My modeling career as a Mexican

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

When I was a little kid still living in Memphis, my dad worked in advertising. One time he used my sister Catherine and I as models for a photo he took for a Pepsi ad. The art guy then painted me as a Mexican in the ad. Considering I now live in Mexico, it’s sort of funny. This ran in the Memphis newspaper in the early ’80s: