You know when you hear someone say something really profound, and it’s like you always knew what they said but you never actually thought about it before? It’s not that you’ve suddenly learned something new, but that you suddenly heard something in a new way. Or maybe you heard it out-loud for the first time, [...]

There is something noble and great about writing. Writing forces you to decide what you think and what you believe. Writing also helps others to decide what they think and believe - through their agreement or disagreement with what you said.
Many great men and women have helped shape history through their written words. Theologians, poets, [...]

This is sweet. Customizable Starbucks Cards.

So do I just get one of these, lay it down and they do the rest? Or do I still have to talk?

Thankfully I am not the only one working at a million miles per hour.
If you have been paying much attention on The Fight Spot lately there are two things you’ll have noticed.
First is the obvious change in posting schedule. This change has been simultaneously intentional and unintentional. Intentional because after 18 months of following [...]

I am currently sitting on the far west end of an old soccer arena that got converted into a church, is now a Bible school, but is currently operating as a 24/7 prayer room. There are only four chairs out of 1400 that have tables in front of them, and if you get here early [...]

Phil and I drove a 24 foot diesel box truck out last night. Got to our hotel. Went to bed at 4. Got up and put another 100 miles on it driving all over town getting this’s and thats.
Once the rest of the onething / FSM team / my wife show up (in about 60 [...]

Ladies and Gents of The Fight Spot: today is my 26th Birthday.

To celebrate (in an extremely nerdy sort-of-way) I have launched a brand new weblog. It’s me - on the net…
Shawn Blanc {dot} Net.

For those of you who like RSS - http://shawnblanc.net/feed.
Don’t wory about The Fight Spot. It will keep on as the popular Christian [...]

I have never dual posted before, but it came out so nice on the onething blog that I just had to copy/paste it.
You may or may not know that I grew up in Castle Rock, Colorado. I walked to elementary school. I walked to junior high. I walked to high school … until I got [...]

I think custom email signatures are great. I actually like it in other’s emails but for some reason feel corny when mine goes out. Right now mine is pretty simple:
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Shawn Blanc
http://thefightspot.com
Do you use one? What is it? What’s you’re take on them?