Author: Jordan Fowler

Jordan helps small businesses grow as the owner of Moon & Owl Marketing, a marketing and advertising agency in Fort Worth, TX. Lover of cycling, track and field, and borderline Liverpool FC fanatic.

Harvest Christian Academy 6 Man Football Playoff Bracket TAPPS Div 2

Harvest Christian Academy Saints are in the playoffs as the top seed in TAPPS D2 Six-man football.

This is my son’s senior year. The last hurrah.

TAPPS 2019 High School Football Playoff 6 Man Division II

The 4 G’s Can Help You Keep Your Sanity

There are many days I have to preach these to myself.

  1. God is Great (I don’t have to be in control).
  2. God is Glorious (I don’t have to fear any man’s opinion. His weighty opinion is all that matters)
  3. God is Good. (Everything he allows can ultimately be used to build trust and profit my relationship with Him).
  4. God is Gracious. (I am already accepted by Him IN CHRIST and do not have to do anything to perform.)

 

Grab onto this if you need it today!

Daily Nugget: Psalm 144

Meditating on Psalm 144:2

God is called “my stronghold and my deliverer.”

One surrounds you in the midst of difficulty while you are in it. The second pulls you out of the difficulty.

God doesn’t always deal my struggles issues and problems the same way. Sometimes he keeps me in them but protects me. Sometimes he pulls me out. He does this all for the greater purpose of building our trust in Him and conforming us to Christ.

I need to accept both methods of His presence.

Brian Blade: A Great Listener

The best musicians, in my opinion, are the ones that can listen and respond the best. Yes, a drummer can bash away at 2 and 4 like a metronome, but there is an added layer when they really listen to other players around them and respond/react.

Drummer Brian Blade is perhaps one of the best at this. You can hear him listen and respond in each of the pieces below.

And this one.

Super tasteful. Super musical. So good!

I need to apply this to listening to others in life, as well.

Free Gift: Modernized Expulsion of Sin by a New Affection by Thomas Chalmers.

I thought I had lost this. But I found it deep in the archive of my email.

THE EXPULSION OF SIN BY A NEW AFFECTION by Thomas Chalmers. Whew!

One of the best writings on how to expel sin from our lives not by hyper-focusing on the sin, but on the goodness of God.

As part of spiritual disciple, I used to grab Puritan writings and modernize them to force me to slow down and meditate on what these rich authors were saying. Their language is typically difficult to read. I leave the original in the left hand column and put the modernized version in the right hand column.

I thought I’d throw it up on my personal blog in case any of you want to download it for reflection. It truly is a powerful work.

CLICK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE PDF

The Expulsion of Sin by a New Affection Thomas Chalmers

Hope you enjoy it!

Transformative Stories at Milestone Life

I love reading the stories of lives changed at Milestone Church. Also, Pastor Jeff Little offers some great thoughts. Moon & Owl was privileged to help move this blog to a new platform that is more user friendly. You can also email subscribe for more inspiration. God IS making difference in people’s lives at Milestone.

Read some of the powerful life change stories at Milestone Life.

Navy Bedroom

I had fun creating my daughter’s bedroom look.

  1. Painted wall Sherwin Williams Naval color.
  2. Made red oak headboard using french cure + hand scraping + dark walnut stain
  3. Amy selected the bedding.
  4. Created a Rorschach Ink Blog on 500 lbs. water color paper.
  5. Added in some lamps and night stands from Ikea.
  6. Created a unique wire hanging system for the painting. (Shhhhh…those are actually toilet paper holders but you can’t tell and no one but you knows.)
  7. Building a wardrobe but not finished yet.

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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen

This was a great read and it isn’t “heavy” history. The author, Frederick L. Allen covers everything from fashion, to sexual norms, to the average workday of a married couple, ramifications of prohibition to the financial collapse of the stock market. You’ll feel like you KNOW the 20’s after reading it. It’s a highly acclaimed NYT Bestseller. Available in Kindle and Paperback. I bought his work on the 1930’s, after reading this. (Click the cover to get it on Amazon.)

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Fresh Factor ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ (1 rehash; 5 New information . . . for me at least)

I had not read much on this period other than Calvin Coolidge biographies and autobiographies.

Fun ♣ ♣ ♣  (1 not that enjoyable; 5 barely put it down)

Pretty entertaining, some chapters more than others.

Easy/Difficult ♣ ♣   (Kid’s comics being 1, Finnegan’s Wake by Joyce or War and Peace by Tolstoy being 5)

Practical  ♣ ♣   (Affects everyday living. 1 is not that practical; 5 is life shaping/ paradigm transforming)

Lessons: Don’t repeat the mistakes this period in history such as “playing the market” in speculation. It will ALWAYS self-correct.