Chapter 3: The Entourage (Freshman 15 Snippet)

Here’s a snippet from Chapter 3: The Entourage: This natural progression happens on every college campus in the country.  A freshman arrives at college with great anticipations of living for Jesus.  This freshman had a high school graduation service at her church where she received a Bible, a devotional book for graduates, and was featured in a graduate recap video.  …

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Chapter 2: The Worldview (Freshman 15 Snippet)

Here’s a snippet from Chapter 2: The Worldview: If you attend a secular university, you will be labeled as a backwards hick if you claim to believe the message of the Bible.  Compared to the state of the church around the world, the university campus should not be classified as full-scale persecution, but most campuses in this country are nothing …

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Maximum Impact #2 (Afternoon Session)

1:13 PM TravisAgnew – Liz Murray is up now. Her story is “Homeless to Harvard.” 1:31 PM TravisAgnew – You have air to breathe, what really else do you need to start today? 1:31 PM TravisAgnew – “You can pick one thing in life: resentment or gratitude.” -Liz Murray 1:33 PM TravisAgnew – “That work became my commitment rather than …

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It’s Here!

I received the first copy today! Woo hoo!  I’m going to take a nap after ordering some. We might have them here next Sunday! Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement during this process! UPDATED (05.08.09 3:16PM) Find some errors on the publishers end in the interior of the book.  Doh!  Going to see if they can correct it …

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Maximum Impact

9:04 AM TravisAgnew – Will be live blogging for most of today at John Maxwell’s Maximum Impact Simulcast here at North Side. 9:09 AM TravisAgnew – Linda Kaplan Thaler is now up: The Kaplan Thaler Group is an advertising agency based in New York, NY. It was founded by Linda Kaplan Thaler, who serves as CEO and Robin Koval, who …

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Relay for Life on Friday

The North Side band is playing at Greenwood’s Relay for Life on Friday night.  As long as we don’t get struck by lightning, we will be playing from 6-7 at the YMCA and then playing “Amazing Grace” around 9:00.  This is a great event and if you need a good family outing, we would love to see you there. Relay …

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Bad Church Sign of the Week: We Practice Human Sacrifice

This week’s bad church sign states: “WE PRACTICE HUMAN SACRIFICE” As always at travisagnew.org, we try to evaluate a church’s sign through the lenses of a casual passerby that does not have too much understanding of church theology.  I mean, aren’t church signs for people outside the church? If that is the case, then I do not think that many …

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Freshman 15 Submitted to Publishers

Today, I submitted Freshman 15 to the publishers.  I will hopefully get a copy of the book in approximately a week.  After that, unless there is some major issue with it, it will be available for printing! It was such a huge relief to click “submit” today.  This project has been a part of me for a few years now. …

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