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Archive for the ‘Creative’ Category

We’ll Keep The Light On For You

Posted by johnfehlen on January 30th, 2010 under Church, Creative, Devotions, Leadership  •  No Comments

I’m currently reading the Book of Exodus. In it we discover such great detail regarding the construction, decor and maintenance of the temple of the Lord. If you’ve ever read through Exodus then you too have discovered the incredible minutia. Everything detail has of corresponding detail. Everything has a purpose and a place. The lampstand [...]

Chapter Four of Intentional Impressions

Posted by johnfehlen on January 11th, 2010 under Church, Creative  •  No Comments

This is the fourth chapter of a booklet I’m working on called “Intentional Impressions for Future Generations”. I will release it chapter by chapter. Give me your thoughts and input. I will be revising it until it’s print release in June 2010.
You can read it and other articles & papers I’ve written here.

Chapter One of Intentional Impressions

Posted by johnfehlen on September 29th, 2009 under Creative  •  No Comments

This is the opening chapter of a booklet I’m working on called “Intentional Impressions for Future Generations”. I will release it chapter by chapter. Give me your thoughts and input. I will be revising it until it’s print release in June 2010.
You can read it and other articles & papers I’ve written here.

It’s Getting Hot in Here…

Posted by johnfehlen on August 19th, 2009 under Church, Creative  •  No Comments

It’s been so unbelievably hot right lately. Seriously. I was not prepared for this.
Everything I do is laborious. Moving is difficult. Sleeping is fitful. My laptop is overheating. My perspiration is sweating. It’s pretty much bad. Today hit around 104 degrees…in the shade. I felt like a HotPocket in my truck. It served as [...]

Why We Make Mistakes

Posted by johnfehlen on June 22nd, 2009 under Creative, Leadership, Review  •  No Comments

I just finished reading a book called Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph T. Hallinan. With a great deal of research and case studies he concludes that the average person make mistakes because:
• We look but don’t always see
• We connect the dots
• We wear rose-colored glasses
• We can walk and chew gum-but not much else
• We [...]

Vanillaroma

Posted by johnfehlen on May 13th, 2009 under Creative, Leadership  •  No Comments

I’m sitting in my truck waiting for the DMV to open so I can take my cycle endorsement test. I got here way too early and now I’m bored. But in my boredom I noticed something hanging from my turn-signal…a yellow pine tree vanilla air freshner.
I wonder how long it’s been there? And I [...]

Spirit Formation

Posted by johnfehlen on February 6th, 2009 under Church, Creative, Devotions  •  1 Comment

I wish I could show each of you the journals, napkins, and scraps of paper. Everything was memorialized in Mead notebooks and gathered in Peechee folders (you’d have to be born before 1985 to know what those are!). What was captured in print became a testimony to the grace of God and the power of [...]

Article in Rethink Magazine

Posted by johnfehlen on February 5th, 2009 under Creative, Family  •  1 Comment

Check out an article I wrote called “Father Matters” in a great local mag called Rethink Magazine. This is a great resource worth picking up and/or subscribing to. Look ‘em up at www.rethinkmonthly.com.

The gospel without words

Posted by johnfehlen on January 15th, 2009 under Creative  •  No Comments

Caleb Quaye @ NAMM. He and band played all instrumental stuff and you could feel the presence of God in a pretty godless environment. It was amazing.

Browsing at B&N

Posted by johnfehlen on January 2nd, 2009 under Church, Creative  •  7 Comments

Today I spent about 2 hours at Barnes and Nobles with my best friend Tim. It’s like walking around a candy store. Books everywhere. So many topics. Ideas. Thoughts. Some developed with precision and others that are sloppily thrown together. Words. Concepts. Dreams with a binding. Passions in ink. Musings in print.
After our time [...]