A day in the life of...Mark Williams

Great American Road Trip

Here is a story about 3 guys who drove through the 48 states in 106 hours.  Every state in the continental U.S.  Wow.  Now that is creativity. 

Here is the article. 

Here is the blog.

Here are some of their stats taken off of their blog:

Bug fatalities: The number we hit was exactly one butt-load.

Miles driven: 7,008                   

Cops seen: 90                  

Gas mileage: 7,008/224.15 = 31.26 mpg                  

Pull overs: 0 (on the trip)                  

Average speed: 65.69 mph                  

Gas prices, high:$4.15, low:$3.45 (we bought 87 octane)                  

Girls phone numbers received: 3                  

Continents our site was seen on: 6 of 7                  

Number of times our web site crashed: 2 (sorry)                  

Number of white dotted lines on highway seen: 1,743,576                  

Weather: Sun, rain, snow, lightning, freezing, roasting, does smell in the car count?                  

Showers taken: zero

Lemonade Day

Today is Lemonade Day for Micah.  Come by between 3:10 & 5:00 P.M. this afternoon.

Half Brained and Creativity

Here is an excellent article by Mark Batterson on Half-brained preaching.  It deals with creativity in communicating with people.  My favorite quote in the article is "creativity is hard work. It is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. But creativity is also what gets people’s attention, changes their perspective, and keeps ministry from becoming monotonous."

It takes work for the creative process to happen.  However, the creative process doesn't end with the idea.  It carries through to the implementation of the message.  If the message isn't communicated clearly, then the creative process was not completly thought through.  Just my two cents.