http://richwagnerwords.com Online home of author Rich Wagner Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:30:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just ran across this one: http://www.telegram.com/article/20080629/NEWS/806290389/1101 http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/newspaper-feature-on-the-expeditionary-man-and-bike-tour From June 28 to July 25, you can find me blogging over at whythebike.com as my family and I bicycle across the country to share about my new book, The Expeditionary Man. Once the tour is over, I'll be back blogging on richwagnerwords.com. http://richwagnerwords.com/general/join-me Successful Everest expeditions have a leader working behind the scenes to build unity amongst team members. Given the headstrong personalities often attracted to mountain climbing, this is no easy task. But through weeks of constant effort, he establishes an environment of trust and cohesion for the team. He teaches them ... http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/engineering-unity-a-family-covenant It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It just depended on who you were talking to … Charles Francis Adams was a prominent political figure during the mid-nineteenth century. Politics was in his bloodline—he was, after all, the grandson of President John Adams. But it ... http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/window-opportunity Zondervan's Inspire Blog recently has featured The Expeditionary Man. Here are links to the entries: "Wherever you are, be all there". Read » God designed the soul of a man for adventure. Read » http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/inspired My brother-in-law Mark lost his job last week. Like any other weekday, he arrived at his office at 8:25am, likely scanning his Blackberry on his walk across the parking lot to see what his busy schedule held for him. But instead of a day filled with meetings and customer calls, ... http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/irreplaceable Zondervan has made available a sample of The Expeditionary Man to give you a feel for what it is like. Read the Sample » http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/sample-text I will be one of the speakers at the CBMC Family Conference at Schroon Lake, NY from Aug 28-31. During my sessions, I'll be focusing on the core themes from my book The Expeditionary Man. This year will be the first time my family and I have attended, but I've ... http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/cbmc-family If I were to throw out the question “How are you discipling your kids?” to a men’s group at my church, the typical answers in response would be something like We hold a weekly Bible study, I lead a family prayer time, or I take my kids out weekly to ... http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/creating-a-%e2%80%9cculture-of-discipleship%e2%80%9d-in-your-home Nearly four years since I first came up with the idea, my newest book The Expeditionary Man is finally available on Amazon.com and other stores. Of all of the books I have written, The Expeditionary Man is the one nearest and dearest to my heart, and the one I am ... http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/available-now I wanted to pass along a short, but powerful story that my sister, Sandi, experienced firsthand this week: On Wednesday night, my sister and others from her church were volunteering at Solomon Center, a food pantry in the Cincinnati area. They have been running very low on supplies lately, as ... http://richwagnerwords.com/discipleship/widows-mite The U2 Unplugged series of blog posts were chapters originally intended to be published as a book back in 2005. However, due to legal complications with reprinting the lyrics (thanks Universal!), the publisher I was working with at the time decided not to go forward with the project. The chapters ... http://richwagnerwords.com/u2-unplugged/u2 U2 occupies a unique position – not only in the music world, but popular culture in general. Time's "Man of the Year". Designer iPods. Super Bowl halftime shows. The (RED) initiative. And meetings with heads of state and the church about the AIDS crisis in Africa. The influence of the ... http://richwagnerwords.com/u2-unplugged/gospel-trail Part 12 of 12 in the U2 Unplugged Series I am convinced there is a “Now gene” swimming inside every human body. A two-year child reaching out for a toy at the counter never sees next week as an option. A couple madly in love yearns to be together tonight, not ... http://richwagnerwords.com/u2-unplugged/forty If you are a C.S. Lewis fan, these are good days. With the coming films Prince Caspian in May and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2009), Narnia remains an “in thing” within popular culture. With even more Narnia sequels on the way and possible film adaptations of other Lewis ... http://richwagnerwords.com/culture/hip-lewis Back in January, I talked about my upcoming cross-country bike tour this summer in combination with the release of my upcoming book, The Expeditionary Man. We just completed the web site for the bike tour and wanted to invite you to check it out at whythebike.com. http://richwagnerwords.com/the-expeditionary-man/whythebike What makes a person great? Is it the number of championship rings he wears on his hand? How fast she rises in her career? The amount of money in one’s bank account? In this media-crazed, post-modern culture of ours, greatness is increasingly defined by the superficial, temporal, and the trivial. ... http://richwagnerwords.com/discipleship/greatness Part 11 in the U2 Unplugged Series “I Found It”. This slogan was used by an evangelistic organization back in the mid-1970s as a creative way to spread the gospel through mass marketing techniques. As a child growing up during that era, I remember yellow “I Found It” bumper stickers, t-shirts, ... http://richwagnerwords.com/u2-unplugged/glimpses Part 10 in the U2 Unplugged Series More ugliness. That’s what I expected to see as I rode in the back of a pick-up truck into La Saline, the poorest slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Since traveling to the Caribbean nation on a missions trip, I’d seen, smelled, and tasted ugliness all ... http://richwagnerwords.com/u2-unplugged/sardine-can Excerpt from my book The Myth of Happiness A Coke bottle drops from the sky. That’s the surprising introduction to modern society that a bushman gets as he walks through the Kalahari Desert in the 1980 screwball comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy. In the film, the bushman isn’t sure what ... http://richwagnerwords.com/joy-happiness/blessed-invasion-2