Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

I love y’all (or how I feel when I’m at my best)

You’re messed up. I get it. Your parents were quircky and weird. In the first 14 years of your life, you thought they were normal. Then you started understanding that the way they dressed, ate, talked, and thought were goofy. In fact, to be honest, you’re goofy too.
You dress differently than I would if I [...]

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Why and How I’m Practicing Getting Offline

Yesterday I wrote about a practice in getting offline. I wrote that I am going to work on dramatically reducing the amount of time I’m sitting in front of a computer screen or cell phone. This isn’t a full blown lifestyle change, it is merely practice. Eprise and Justin left some questions on yesterday’s post [...]

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A practice in getting offline

I’m going to do a little experiment. I’m going to try to get offline as much as possible. I twitter, have facebook, email, blog reading, and browsing a few random websites can turn into a large chunk of time in front of a computer screen and connected to life online. Marko totally eliminated his online [...]

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What Acts 2:42-47 means today

Acts 2:42-47:
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone [...]

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i’m TICKED!

I just read about Seth Godin’s MBA program. It was free. It was extremely selective. It was all about growth.
WHY THE HECK DON’T ALL COLLEGES/SCHOOLS/MBA PROGRAMS opporate like this?
I was frustrated as heck at taylor university. I’m not sure about any other majors, but i know my BA in Christian Educational Ministries was essentially a [...]

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eager to offer the gift of Jesus

Adam Walker-Cleveland has been running a series called “Plurality 2.0.” The whole  series has been wrestling with the multiple religions we have in our society and the faith of Christianity. The intersection of those two places has led to some pretty interesting dialogue. On Friday, Brian McLaren was the guest blogger and wrote some pretty [...]

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Favorite Wedding Songs?

I’ve been charged with making a playlist for our wedding reception. I’m going straight to you guys, what are the best songs for playing at a wedding reception? Slow songs, fast songs, classics, everything. Bring it on.
Name your favorite dance songs….

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Decisions students will make

In Romans 1, Paul writes several things to the church in Rome. One of the things he repeats several times (verse 24, 26, 28) is that God hands people over to their sin. Essentially, I understand this to be Paul explaining that sin is its own punishment and righteousness is its own reward. God didn’t [...]

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… until God reveals something better to me …

“…if I say something that is not confirmed by a greater authority, even if I appear to prove it by reason, it should be accepted with confidence only as what seems true to me for the time being, until God in some way reveals something better to me. If I prove to be able to [...]

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