Eric Mann's Blog

  • Patience

    I wasn’t born with an abundance of patience.  As a kid, I could rarely sit still for more than 5 minutes at a time, I stayed up all night in anticipation of big events, and I’d often ask “are we there yet” before we got to the end of our street.  Not an atypical story […]

  • Loading Legacy Content in an iFrame

    At my day job, I’m responsible for bringing our various web products up to modern standards.  Right now, that involves pulling our old website off a static, table-based system built with FrontPage and executing a new design using ASP.NET MVC 3. It’s been a fun project so far, except for one major hang-up. We have […]

  • Perseverance

    Every now and then we all come across situations we feel are hopeless.  A project is due with too soon a deadline.  A work task is just beyond our realm of comfortable effort.  An important appointment is endlessly rescheduled.  Our finances never seem to balance income versus expenses. It can be exasperating to keep going. […]

  • A Change of Perspective – Hiking in Yosemite

    I recently picked up Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson and read through it with a small group from my church.  It’s a fantastic, approachable work explaining different ways you can reconnect with your journey to follow after Christ.  The part that stuck with me the most, though, was a single line: “a change of pace […]

  • Boundless Summer Challenge – Task 20

    This is your final task: Write an essay or make a video describing how this challenge has brought reconciliation and/or growth to one of your relationships. Keep your essay to 700 words or less, or keep your video to four minutes or less. It must be completed and submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 8, […]

  • Boundless Summer Challenge – Task 15 – Part 2

    Last weekend, I was unable to fully complete task 15 because I was out of town to teach a class.  As  reminder, we were tasked to: The second part is much more clear-cut: Go to church. While you are there, we’d like you to do two specific things: 1) Thank the pastor. If you know […]

  • Boundless Summer Challenge – Task 19

    God made us male and female — wonderfully complementary. Clearly He designed us for marriage, but we are also in a position to be a uniquely positive influence on each other. Sometimes it is a woman’s encouragement that brings out the best in a man, and a man’s encouragement that brings out the best in […]

  • Boundless Summer Challenge – Task 18

    Prayer is an important part of your current and future relationships, whether those include acquaintances, friends or your significant other. This week the focus has been on strengthening current dating relationships and marriages and preparing for future relationships. Today’s task involves praying for your future spouse and members of the opposite sex. Before you pray, […]

  • Boundless Summer Challenge – Task 17

    Today’s task is two-fold. We want to add to your biblical understanding of marriage by giving you two tasks. The first is reading, and the second is a little more interactive. Part One: For Guys: Download or read online “A Guy’s Guide to Marrying Well.” We encourage you to read the entire booklet, but for […]

  • Boundless Summer Challenge – Task 16

    We are dedicating this last week to one kind of relationship in particular: your spouse or your future spouse. As the majority of Christians are called to marriage, and as your marriage partner is to be the most important human in your life, we think it’s worth spending a whole week on. But before we […]