2011 – John Markum

10 Unexpected New Year’s Resolutions

Posted on January 6, 2012 by johnmarkum

In case you’re thinking about doing something new in the new year, here are some suggestions for atypical resolutions:

Start dating your wife again.
Go on a fast for 2+ days.
Go on a missions trip.
Teach your kids something.
Do something generous that you “can’t” afford.
Spend more time with non-church people.
Buy someone’s groceries at the store for them.
Start talking to strangers.
Forgive yourself.
Give sincere compliments to everyone.

“johnmarkum.com” in 2011

Posted on January 3, 2012 by johnmarkum

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,700 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Thoughts on the World Ending this week

Posted on May 20, 2011 by johnmarkum

I can’t speak for everyone, but the announcement that the world will end tomorrow, Saturday May 21, 2011, at 2 am is stressing me out for the following reasons:

I’ve been working hard planning sermons for the entire summer and fall, none of which I’ll get to preach… supposedly.
We’ve already bought groceries for next week.
I don’t know what to wear.
Everyone is freaking out over something that we could not possibly know the day of it’s happening.
For those of us who have a relationship with Christ, we’ve got nothing to worry about anyway.
I just found out that next week’s winning lotto numbers are…

Blessings,

John

P.S.

Don’t freak out, it’s not gonna happen… yet.