Pete Gall is a Christian author, speaker and brand consultant who specializes in giving God back to people. More →
That’s my new favorite prayer. I’ve been using it a lot lately. I see the temptation coming and I start laughing and pray, “Oh, Jesus, I’m gonna get creamed!” And that invites Him in. And it’s working.
So here’s how I learned it.
About a week ago I met my friend, Pastor E, [...]
Forwarded by a friend in Jacksonville who is very much the shirtless dancing guy.
I’m looking forward to having finished material to share about what he’s doing. I have been hired to help refine and tell the story and hope to have stuff ready before long.
In the meantime, check out River City Church, where the [...]
Aaron Tolson read My Beautiful Idol and created this video a while back. A very flattering experience for me – and humbling.
Another friend God introduced me to through my books is writing his Masters thesis on community, faith and the race. Is the race of faith and life a sprint, a [...]
“The rest of the church is just so lame by comparison.”
I hear it with nearly every church, ministry, non-profit or recovery client or friend. Some aspect of life, or some gathering, some ministry, some men’s group, some cause – some thing has grabbed the attention of a portion of the Body and become so [...]
Earlier this week I joined my dad for a quick trip to Kentucky to pick up the daughter of a Romanian friend of Dad’s, who is in college and who is heading home to Romania for Christmas. I asked if I could ride along because I wanted the time with my dad.
The ride down [...]
I’ve been working with Mark Arnold on a nearly daily basis since 2001. Two of our favorite projects were the “visual editions” of Philip Yancey’s What’s So Amazing About Grace and Lee Strobel’s Case for Faith. (the links go to sites with samples, not to the Amazon product pages – check them out.)
We’ve recently been [...]
EGM stands for EthnoGraphic Media. The company makes documentaries on contemporary social causes, and builds grassroots efforts to address those social challenges.
From my [brand strategy] perspective, the trick has to do with managing the inevitable backlash that comes when arm’s length, marketing and fashion-driven causes slip out of fashion, and how people who have invested [...]
If we’re going to have a relationship with God, we will either speak in the language of contract (and breach of contract) or covenant (a promise initiated and fulfilled by God).
And in either case, eventually the giant question arises: why does suffering exist?
If you’re a covenant person, looking to make sense [...]
This is the vision book we’ve worked up for JCI – Junior Chamber International – known in the US as the Jaycees. The organization has been in decline, but man do they have the right idea behind them, and it’s been fun to work with them on a turnaround. More pieces will be [...]
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An hour with Pete Gall and Daniel Rassum, delivered in a style inspired by This American Life. Music and a remarkable story of redemption and love, with insight lifted from Pete’s book (Learning My Name, Zondervan, July 2009) about escaping two of the deadliest traps in American culture. Share with your friends. [...]
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Learning My Name is my second book. The first book, My Beautiful Idol, is a prodigal sort of story. The second is more of an “elder brother” response. It’s about identity, about learning to trust, about the false roles I’ve played (and have seen in plenty of other people), and about a [...]
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Sometimes when I can’t fall asleep I turn on the Christian radio station and endure dregs for the occasional gem, and sputter off to sleep in either grumble or grace. A few nights ago I heard this song, written by a Puritan named George Matheson in 1882. I thought it was beautiful.
Say what [...]
** One person, who lost the right to leave comments here, objected to the headline – “Christians don’t live in garbage, a@#$%&@!” was his keen insight. He clearly didn’t read the article, or has more garbage around him than he’s willing to admit. **
I passed through the “Garbage City” of Cairo in 2006, on the [...]
From Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer (page 23-25 in my version):
Nothing is more foreign to authentic monastic and “contemplative” tradition in the Church than a kind of gnosticism which would elevate the contemplative above the ordinary Christian by initiating him into a realm of esoteric knowledge and experience, delivering him from the ordinary struggles and sufferings [...]
The funny thing about creating this post highlighting Kierkegaard’s piece called “The Offense” is that I had a very hard time thinking of an example of Christianity – in the sense of humble obedience to Jesus – being offensive in the world today. Christianity – in the sense of stuff church people do and protest [...]
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I’ve been thinking about how often I get trapped in false dichotomies, and how often I feel like I can’t make a clean and good choice, but am instead left with having to choose the lesser of two evils.
And then I saw the Jerry Garcia quote on a bumper sticker today. Bumper stickers, fortune [...]
Another of my favorites, seeing and listening to Nicholas – and maybe projecting some ideas about his life and Greek Orthodox world in for extra impact – feels like rye bread to me. Meaty, coarse, dense, old, pure, right. And maybe sometimes too hard for my soft palate, too scratchy for my childish and selfish [...]
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Some friends of mine and I have started a marketing & cause-based partnership company we’re calling Confluence Worldwide. The site isn’t up yet, and the identity pieces are still coming together, but I’ll post some sample work soon, and am excited to share this initial letter/manifesto with you…
It’s not business. It’s life.
And there is [...]
