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The danger behind rules

By On October 31, 2011 · 5 Comments

Whenever a tragedy occurs, we respond by making new rules. Because of one person, we all have to take our shoes off at the airport now. Our hope is that the rules will protect us, that they will keep us safe. We make and enforce legislation to try to prevent more bad things from happening. [...]

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Shotgun wedding to Jesus: Confession #67

By On June 23, 2011 · 5 Comments

Immersed in religion, I struggled with the source of my motivation. Guilt, others expectations, and the desire to please strongly influenced my behavior. I was party motivated out of wanting to please God, but I was also trying to please others as well. I had a conversation recently with someone who told me they had [...]

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I am an adoptive uncle

By On April 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Being an adoptive uncle is great. It means that someone in my family is willing to travel long distances, pay incredible amounts of money, and give of himself both emotionally and physically to bring an orphaned child into our family. Good thing I have a brother. My brother and his wife, Chad and Tiffany, just [...]

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Happy Easter

By On April 24, 2011 · 1 Comment

A video from Jeremy Cowart.

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Confession #45: I preached the message of less sin

By On April 13, 2011 · 18 Comments

I have shared with you my fear about sharing the gospel. Maybe you have never struggled with this or perhaps you were so incredibly motivated by what I said that you are now living a reformed life and talk about Jesus with everybody you meet. So what exactly are you telling them? The Message I [...]

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Confession #42: I don’t know who I am

By On April 4, 2011 · 8 Comments

I lost my ID badge from work. It seems that I have a hate/hate relationship with ID badges. I can’t seem to either keep track of them or remember to wear one when I do know where it is. I spent the entire first year at my current job without one. I just never had it [...]

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Faith like a child

By On March 14, 2011 · 4 Comments

Jesus often used children as an example of what we need to be in order to be pleasing to him. Have you ever thought about how humbling it must have been for the leaders of the church to be told that in order to please God they must be like uneducated, immature, snotty-nosed, barely toilet [...]

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Eye surgery

By On February 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Jesus had a great sense of humor. I have not appreciated this enough in the past. The metaphor about the log and the speck is a great example (Matthew 7:1-5). If you are not familiar with the story, Jesus uses a funny picture to get a point across. He talks about how we like to [...]

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The burning building

By On January 27, 2011 · 11 Comments

Christians frequently compare evangelism to warning someone that they are in a burning building. We use this analogy to defend ourselves against the accusation of being unloving. We claim that our hysterical behavior and intensity in our persuasion are justified by the urgency of the danger. Wouldn’t it be unloving to not warn people of [...]

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Giving more

By On January 24, 2011 · 5 Comments

Ever since I have had income, I have always tithed 10% of the gross. At a quick glance this may appear to be more like bragging than a confession. The concept of a confession is sharing something that you did wrong. An honest statement about falling short. My confession is that I gave 10% of [...]

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