I don’t blog because I’m brilliant or because I necessarily have some bright new ideas that no one else has been able to come up with I blog because it forces me to collect my thoughts and think specifically about something. It’s Lso an opportunity to help me determine how to write out my thoughts [...]
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Another year ending
As another year comes to an end, I’m excited about the things I’ve accomplished and I’m looking forward to what is to come. I’ve made some great friends and deepened other existing relationships. I’ve had an amazingly fun year with my wife, enjoying life in the city of Chicago. We took our first vacation to [...]
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Conversion and Following
We talk a lot about the “conversion process” as Christians, but it seems Christ spends just as much time talking about following Him and how that would look. Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For [...]
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God Speaks
I’ve always had what I felt was a conservative view of how God spoke to his children (believers). I felt like I was justified in this position because of how God had spoken in his written word, and how he had chosen prophets and individuals in the Bible to communicate his words. I’ve had this [...]
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Seven Pounds
I recently watched Seven Pounds, and it was a dramatic sorrowful story of reckless penance from a man who had lost his wife and killed several others in a car crash.It seemed like a sorrowful, selfish, and eventually suicidal death in a vain attempt to get rid of a debt he could never repay. But, [...]
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evangelistic methods after modernity (part 1)
During my final semester at Moody (www.moody.edu), as I completed my degree in Evangelism and Discipleship, I had to write a final paper to culminate my learning. I used this as an opportunity to examine some of how our culture is changing and how we are sharing the gospel/evangelizing/sharing the good news/telling our personal faith [...]
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Lenses
Tonight as I took out my contact lenses out I realized how easily I forget I’m wearing them. They’re great for exactly that reason, because I can forget they are there. When I thought about this tonight it made me wonder what other “lenses” I have in my life affecting my cision and the way [...]
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Projects
Too much to do and so little time to do it. It’s the story of most peoples lives. Just today I had a list of things I wanted to accomplish before the day was over and I only completed a few of them. My lofty ideals and goals got post in the reality of my [...]
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Noise in the night – an uninvited guest
Tonight as my wife and I were trying to fall asleep, we heard voices out in the dark alley behind our apartment. My response to this was threefold. First, I didn’t really notice it. But I gradually started noticing it more. Then I thought about turning on a fan to avoid hearing their voices and [...]
Singularity
Singularity, it is… The quality or condition of being singular or Something uncommon or unusual (1) I find it is interesting that I so infrequently consider the singularity of Christ. A more theological way of saying it might be to say the uniqueness of Christ. Sometimes I get to caught up in how buddy-buddy I [...]
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