fishing the {net}

every now and then i don't have much to blog about and so i share some reads i have been fishing through.  here is a short stringer of some recent thoughtful/good reads/videos from the world wide {net}.

enjoy feasting...or don't

Get Ready to Be Lance Armstrong's God: “You may not have any prestigious cycling awards to your name, but if all the ways you measure your value disappeared in an instant—health, wealth, spouse, children, beauty, girlfriend, Facebook friends, résumé, GPA, car, job—would there be any “you” left? Would your identity survive if your dark secret suddenly became international news?”  Where do I find my identity?  

Cold-Case Christianity: Sounds like a good read, may have to add it to my list of books to pick up this summer.  “You don’t have to turn off your brain to be a believer.  In Cold-Case Christianity he approaches the claims of the Gospels as a detective.”

Steve Saint, Mincaye, and the Redemptive Power of the Gospel:  The story of the Saint and Elliot family has always grabbed my heart.  I have read the books {Through Gates of Splendor and Shadow of the Almighty, both by Elisabeth Elliot}, and seen the movie {End of the Spear}.  Although the books out do the movie in my opinion.  Don’t miss this video.  

i like adoption: worthy of a re-post.  from the ilikegiving.com website.

To evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him — this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.   

                                                                                      -C.S. Lewis