Category: Christian Living
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The chain reaction of evil
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 source
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Am I just a social media guy?
Yesterday I spoke in 3 services at The Place in Wickenburg, Arizona. It’d been a long time since I’d done that… it was really fun. And it was fun to be reminded that I like that and I’m not bad at it. The fact is that I don’t get a lot of requests to teach…
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Girls
Maybe it’s because I’m a dad of a 12 year old girl? Maybe it’s because I was raised by a hard-working single mom? Maybe it’s because I’m married to an amazing woman? Or maybe it’s a secret agenda I have to meddle with the way things have always worked for the stupid, psychotic sake of…
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Road Productivity
I’m in kind of a hot streak of travel. Between Open events and speaking, 2014 is off to a rather busy start. It’s a mixed blessing for me.
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Gentle
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2
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Just say “Christian”
I read every bio of every new person who follows one of my Twitter accounts. It amazes me how common it is for church leaders to use symbolic, flowery language to describe who they are or what they do. You could just say “I’m the youth pastor at First Baptist.” Why does it have to…
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My Jaw is Tired
It’s been a long week. The kids went back to school. And while I know I’m supposed to celebrate this with relief that those kids are finally out of my hair, the truth is I’d rather have them home. And the transition from having them home over break to getting back into the routine of…
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Theology as Art
I took Systematic Theology I twice at Moody Bible Institute. That’s right. I failed a class in college. It wasn’t for lack of effort. I came into my undergrad not knowing how to study. So while I had everything memorized I struggled to think critically about the content and lacked the ability to put it…
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Excellence and Mediocrity
Excellence. I pursue you. Mediocrity. You pursue me. What’s the difference between the two?
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A Call to End the Christian War on Entertainment
All this technology is making us antisocial. pic.twitter.com/k4j7lOSUeh — Historical Pics (@HistoricalPics) December 15, 2013 This picture got retweeted a bunch yesterday. The sarcasm of it is clear. People have correlated technology with the advancement of societal ill for a long, long time. Today’s whipping boy is the smartphone. The point of the tweet above…