Sunrise [App Store, Free] is a ​relatively new app that's great for keeping track of your life. I've been using it for a month now and I'm very happy with it. 

​Sunrise interface. 

What's best for me about Sunrise is that I can add calendar events quickly with natural language input. What that means in English is that I can tap and hold the '+' button on the top right and it gives me a dialog box where I can type "Lunch with Scott next Tuesday at 11:30AM at Jimmy's" and it will know exactly what I want to do with that. It will put the entry as "Lunch with Scott" next Tuesday, April 9, at 11:30 AM. It will even look up Jimmy's here in Lewisburg and give me a map if I need directions. ​

Sunrise syncs with Google Calendar, Facebook birthdays, and LinkedIn calendar. It's free and you should give it a try. ​

❯ Sunrise Website​

Men: ​

We have become a bunch of macho idiots. We have put girls in bikinis and idolized the beautiful ones and hated on the ones that don't meet society's definition of beauty. We have made sports more important than relationships - both with God and with others. We prioritize work and "getting ahead" more so than we prioritze our relationships with wives, husbands, sons, and daughters. We have set aside time for hobbies, movies, and video games - but not for family. We have degraded sex so much that it is now the equivalent of going to the mailbox. And we have done all this with a smile on our face and money in our bank accounts. 

It is time for us to be Gentlemen - gentle men.

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Just a little excerpt from something I'm working on for our new guy's split class tomorrow. Harsh, but so true for most men. ​

Hitting the videos hard today, but when good ones come up, I gotta share. ​

Like Taft Ayers said in his tweet: Probably a good idea to watch this.​

In 1 Kings 3 we find a story of the beginning of King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived. 

In chapter 3 verse 5 something happens that doesn't happen very often - God asks a man what he wants from Him. God literally asks Solomon in a dream, "Ask what I shall give you."

As I said, that doesn’t happen very much in scripture. Moses wasn’t given a choice to lead the Israelites out of Egypt - he was told by God how he was to do it. Even God’s own son, Jesus, wasn’t given a choice in the matter of his earthly death. Sure, Jesus was God on earth and could have called 10,000 angels to rescue him, but God’s plan was absolute and Jesus had no other viable choice - the Savior had to die for our sins on the cross. 

But Solomon was given a choice - and he chooses wisely. 

Selfishly, I know exactly what my first instinct would be to ask for: I would ask God for myself, my children, and my children's children to never have to worry about money. Ever. 

Solomon could have asked for that. He could have asked for power, or status, or riches, or long life, but he doesn't. He simply asks for wisdom to govern his nation - God's people - wisely. He asks for wisdom. 

Believe it or not, God gives you a choice every day. And in terms of serving Him, there's only two choices - we either do or we don't. God has given us the free will to choose what we do with our lives, and every day is an opportunity to show people who we serve. 

What choice are you making? Are you serving God with all your heart or are you serving him half-heartedly? Because there's really no in-between.