Being a father is a crazy thing. My son, who I like to affectionately call “the boy,” is a mimic machine. For better or worse, he is constantly watching what I’m doing, oftentimes repeating my actions down to the smallest detail. The other day, I was chewing gum while I changed thy boy’s diaper. I […]
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Three Thoughts from a Rookie Youth Pastor
I have a confession to make. The reason I volunteered to work in youth ministry was so that I would have a legitimate reason to play Halo. It’s true. That was four years ago. Since then I’ve gone from being the Wednesday night chaperone to helping organize and run events. About a year and a […]
Challies on Personal Bible Study
Tim Challies has an excellent article that succinctly considers the question of why Christians should read the Bible. He makes the excellent point that there is no explicit verse that commands Christians to read the Bible on a daily basis. So why do we do it? Here’s an excerpt: When I think about the area […]
Four Years Today!
Today is the four-year anniversary of my marriage to the most beautiful, most caring, most excellent woman in the world! We met in college and despite my nerdiness and lack of athletic skills, I was able to trick her into dating me. We got engaged on Valentines’s day of 2006 and then married July 1, […]
God’s Ordinary Grace
It’s amazing go me how often I can miss the forest for the trees. This is especially true when it comes to actually noticing God’s grace at work in my life. I was reading Psalm 119 because that’s where I am in the ESV Daily Reading Plan. And I came across verse 29. “Put false […]