Picture of the Day

(via A Picture Is Worth 1000 LOLz)

The best part is the caption:

“Everything That’s Wrong With Los Angeles In A Single Frame.”

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I’m a Control Freak

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

I am a natural control freak.

This has become a problem as Riv has gotten bigger and bigger. My natural instinct is to try to control everything but that will lead to two things:

1) It will burn me out
2) It will burn everyone else out

And so I am learning to let go. Now all I do is set sideboards in place and allow good things to run wild within those sideboards. Two great examples are our East Lansing Venue and our Creative Team. In both areas we have set certain sideboards (which are pretty stinking wide) and we allow for tons of freedom in between. The cool part is how much better each of these areas of ministry are than they would be if I was control freaking them.

Office Tour

When people see the layout of our building at Riv, they often ask “where’s your office?”

So today I decided to take you on a little tour of my office.

Enjoy.

Oh, to see it in Higher Quality, click here and then click on “View in High Quality.”

The Matrix on Windows

Thanks to Pat for this.

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