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Archive for April, 2008

Posted on April 21, 2008

God Hooked Us Up On the Beach

I’ve got an exciting week ahead of me. Tomorrow Lisa and I head to Orlando for the Exponential 2008 National New Churches Conference. We’ll be with 2,000 other church planters and leaders listening to speakers like Andy Stanley, Ed Stetzer, Tim Keller & Rick Warren. If you’re going to be there or live in [...]

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Posted on April 19, 2008

Music that is ROCKING my SOCKS off!

Do you see that? My socks got rocked right off my feet! Here’s why:

The Raconteurs
Consolers of the Lonely
 

She & Him
Volume One
 

Adele
19
 

Bryan Karas
Cambridge Songs
 

Thanks to Tim & Kassie who turned me on to She & Him (and lots of other great music). Thanks to @thelongbrake for the Bryan Karas tip.
Let me know if you get a [...]

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Posted on April 18, 2008

My Friend Lost 250 Pounds and is Featured on CNN

Brandee Howell, my friend and blog subscriber from Michigan, was featured on CNN last week for a CNN Fit Nation series. She had a life-changing surgery that helped her to lose nearly 250 pounds! Watch this clip at CNN.com.
Congratulations Brandee!

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Posted on April 18, 2008

Sick iMacs & Answered Prayers

Last night was pretty stressful for us. Lisa’s iMac wouldn’t boot up yesterday despite repeated attempts at troubleshooting the issue. Let me stop all the harassing comments before they start – while Macs are, in my opinion much better computers, they are still computers. Things go wrong.
Her computer has Quickbooks and all of my company’s [...]

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Posted on April 16, 2008

Blog Secret Revealed!

Ok, ready for the big BradRuggles.com blog secret?
I hit two big milestones in the last week. The first was my 100th blog subscriber. CJ Mills found my site through another friend’s blog and became my 100th subscriber. Since then I’ve added an additional 4 readers to my ranks for a grand total of 104! You [...]

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Posted on April 16, 2008

A Super Special Blog Secret!

Care to guess? I promise it will be worth it!

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Posted on April 15, 2008

The Best Decision I Ever Made

Exactly eight years ago today I made the best decision ever. I married this woman.

Yeah, I know. I definitely lucked out. I thank God for giving me someone who completes me so perfectly and is willing to do the crazy things God has called us to do.
We’ve been through a lot over the last eight [...]

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Posted on April 14, 2008

Good Times in Nashville

I’m writing this post from beautiful Tarpon Springs Florida after arriving around 2:30 AM. I can’t tell you how glad I am to finally be here (if you just started reading check out my previous post describing our trip)
I had so much fun in Nashville Saturday night and Sunday. Sunday morning we went to CrossPoint [...]

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Posted on April 13, 2008

BIG TRIP: Nashville Update

We got into Nashville around 9:30 last night. After Lisa and the kids got settled into the hotel I met up with Pat Rowland and we hit downtown Nashville.
This morning we’ll be going to CrossPoint Church and hooking up with Pete Wilson for lunch afterwards. Then we’ll hit the road for the biggest leg of [...]

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Posted on April 11, 2008

95…96…97…98…99…

This is what I saw when I checked my Feeburner stats this morning. I am just one subscriber shy of 100 subscribers! I’m amazed and humbled that so many of you have enjoy my blog enough to subscribe. I’ve only been really hitting this strong since the beginning of the year so I think that’s [...]

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