words are not enough

My NFL Predictions Revisited…

Joe Kennedy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:56:39 +0000

The first day of the NFL season I posted my playoffs predictions. Boldly, I had the Saints and Chargers duking it out in Miami. I thought it would be an entertaining game, especially with the Brees-San Diego story. I knew better, because San Diego’s head coach is Norv Turner, and I have a strong theory about him. You see, no Norv Turner- or Wade Phillips- head coached team will ever make it to the Super Bowl. Anyway, the Chargers got whipped by the Fighting Rexes and the Colts made it to the Big Game (which if you didn’t know, then how did you get on the Internet?).

So I got a lot wrong. I only got half the NFC teams right, and 4 of 6 AFC teams right. The seeding is all messed up. But hey, who really expected the Cowboys to make the playoffs? Who thought the Titans and Steelers would tank half their seasons? (On a side note, have you noticed that the last two Steelers teams to win the Super Bowl ended up missing the playoffs the following year? They’re the exception to the rule, lately… with both the Cardinals and Seahawks making the playoffs following a Super Bowl loss. DUN-DUN-DUN!)

If you want to see my original prediction, click here, and if you want to see a zoomed in version of the actual playoffs bracket, click here.

On the Importance of Character…

Joe Kennedy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:00:54 +0000

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing – so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

[E. Stanley Jones, Source Currently Unknown]

Oh When the Saints…

Joe Kennedy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:39:03 +0000

[Project 365 Week 4]

Joe Kennedy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:00:48 +0000

Week 4 of Project 365 was a struggle. I didn’t go out much and I didn’t have a whole lot to take pictures of around here. That’s why you got pictures of: my favorite sandwich (pepperoni, salami, black forest ham, and provolone), my camera strap, a pastor preaching, souvenirs from Russia, M&Ms, free stuff from a hotel, and the pages of a book I’m reading (Enough). Maybe Week 5 will be more creative. If you want to see the daily feed with larger images, check out my Posterous account.

The Privileged and the Forgotten…

Joe Kennedy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:13:09 +0000

“It is a sad fact that on this earth at this late date there are still two worlds, “the privileged world” and “the forgotten world”. The privileged world consists of the affluent, developed nations, comprising twenty-five to thirty percent of the world population, in which most of the people live in a luxury never before experienced by man outside the Garden of Eden. The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.”

[Norman Borlaug, "father of the Green Revolution," during his 1970 Nobel Laureate lecture]

Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

[Jesus, as recorded in the Gospel of Luke 12:48b]

[Project 365 Week 3]

Joe Kennedy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:00:19 +0000

Week 3 of Project 365 was pretty much home-based. I spent a good bit of last Friday working on my portfolio. Upon the recommendation of two friends, I borrowed the entire Arrested Development series. Oh yeah, and the SAINTS WON, the SAINTS WON! (which I celebrated with popcorn). I cleaned out my storage room, read a magazine, cleaned out my emergency pack, and struggled very hard to find a photo this Thursday. You can’t win them all, right? Anyway, if you want to see the daily feed with larger images, check out my Posterous account.

A State of Absolute Poverty…

Joe Kennedy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:00:17 +0000

This is absolute poverty: a condition of life so limited as to prevent realization of the potential of the genes with which one is born; a condition of life so degrading as to insult human dignity–and yet a condition of life so common as to be the lot of some 40% of the peoples of the developing nations. And are not we who tolerate such poverty, when it is within our power to reduce the number afflicted by it, failing to fulfill the fundamental obligations accepted by civilized men since the beginning of time? … There are, of course, many grounds for development assistance, among others, the expansion of trade, the strengthening of international stability and the reduction of social tensions. But in my view, the fundamental case for development assistance is the moral one. The whole of human history has recognized the principle-at least in the abstract-that the rich and the powerful have a moral obligation to assist the poor and the weak. This is what the sense of community is all about.

[Robert S. McNamara, President of the World Bank (1968-1981) in his address to the World Bank, September 1973]

My Portfolio…

Joe Kennedy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:38:02 +0000

I updated my online portfolio, and you can find it by clicking here.

[Project 365 Week 2]

Joe Kennedy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:00:58 +0000

Here’s the second week of Project 365. I went to Dauphin Island, watched the Saints game, celebrated with king cake, switched my web host from GoDaddy to BlueHost, had a church planter meeting in New Orleans, worked my last night at Target, and then went to a city-sponsored non-profit networking event (in that order). If you want to see the daily feed with larger images, check out my Posterous account.

[Dauphin Island Winter Days]

Joe Kennedy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:06:54 +0000

Granted, it was 60F and cloudy… this is what Dauphin Island looks like during January. (This is what it looks like in July.)