Here’s a weekly rundown of stuff I starred in Google Reader, favorited on Twitter or clipped into Evernote.

• This is one of the best blog posts I’ve ever read. It’s from Mark Gungor and talks about Christian music, Zombies and drinking alcohol.  A must-read.
• Seth Godin says we should learn how to say no
• Your budget is a theological statement. It says what you value. – Alan Hirsch
• Congress says that pizza and french fries qualify as vegetables in school lunchrooms.  And these are the people running the nation.
• Mint tells us that the average American will spend nearly $700 on Christmas gifts this year.
• This guy ran the New York Marathon and then couldn’t find his car for two days.
• Joe Sangl gives some ways to build financial margin.  One of them is digging up small trees from ditches and selling them.
• Nancy Duarte points us to this awesome poem about French toast.
• “Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.” — Warren Buffett
• Great article from Harvard Business on building a team around one person.  
• Jenni Catron confronts the myth that ministry work is harder.
• “If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.” -  Albert Einstein
• Awesome story about 232 sand dollars.