November 2011
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8 Ways to Not Procrastinate →
Time management doesn’t have to be painful. Here’s how to finish (fill in the blank).
October 2011
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Christmas Comes But Six Months a Year →
Who is buying Halloween candy and eggnog?
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Why Christians are Not in a Culture War →
It is implied that Christians should be countercultural regardless of what values are upheld by the culture. But acting in that way only encourages pride, stunts the growth of the Church and ignores the Spirit of God at work among all peoples. In fact, the Church can learn a lot from non-Christians—and if non-Christians agree en masse about something, that’s called culture. And sometimes...
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Jesus and →
Lately, I’ve noticed a slow but steady change. People are beginning to realize that not all believers subscribe to the same culture.
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The Top 5 Lies Christians Believe →
We are all susceptible to believing lies at any given time. The world is magical at presenting it’s counterfeit products as the genuine article. One would assume that because Christians are followers of the Truth, that we would be less susceptible to such lies.
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“Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just...”
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C.S. Lewis
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One on our short list of mutually loved songs!
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“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people...”
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C.S. Lewis
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New Office
Yesterday afternoon, we rearranged all of my office space. Almost all 30+ people are sitting in new locations… desks, computers, everything moved. I’m trying to find a muscle in my body that’s not hurting… maybe my smile muscles? :)
I’m excited to sit somewhere new: if you’re crossing Broadway at Pearl in Boulder, wave up at me!
September 2011
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A Bible Quiz →
How well do you know your Bible? Take this True/False quiz to find out!
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“If God ‘foresaw’ our acts, it would be very hard to understand how...”
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C.S. Lewis
August 2011
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Woooo vicodin!
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Surgery’s over, and I’m feeling pretty good! Just have to hang out here till tomorrow around lunchtime, then they’re sending me home. YAY!
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Surgery will actually be at 4:30 today. One more mostly-long day of “hanging out” in a hospital room…!
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Surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning. I should be allowed to go home afterward — pray for a quick recovery! I can’t afford to miss more work for this!
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Ice chips aren't that tasty.
I’m stuck overnight at Exempla St. Joseph’s hospital; finally (hopefully) they will do something drastic to solve the constant stomach problems I have been having for the past year! Just giving you all an update before the drugs make me extra loopy and I fall asleep. Pray that they will decide on surgery so we can fix this once and for all — I DON’T want to be sent home...
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Ugh.
I think I just surpassed my childhood record for most mosquito bites in less than an hour. I love gardening, but there’s hardly any leg showing between the bumps!
April 2010
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Life is Fatal
The following blog posting was written by my mom for her website, Compost. I loved it so much (it hit home for multiple obvious reasons), that I felt the need to share it with all of you. Enjoy!
Life is fatal.
Just by being born, we know that one day we are going to die. And while none of us knows the exact number of our days, there are some things we can do, or not do, that might affect when...
July 2009
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Threshing Fact from Fiction: An Ignorant...
Why is faith a good thing?
To many people, the above question is an odd one. Of course faith is a good thing. Why question that? However, in “Religulous” it is one of Maher’s chief objections to religion (particularly Christianity).
The question is first raised by Maher after he asks the pastor of a small truck stop chapel how any rational person can believe in a talking snake in a garden...
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English 121: Resolving Ambivalence
Nothing is worse than having to sit through a class you cannot stand, as an unfair professor can make your life a living hell. But now that an entire season has passed and I’ve had ample time to recover and even procrastinate, I feel the need to follow up on something. Several months ago I wrote a short, satirical essay [College: Where You’re Liberal or You’re Wrong] about my first...
June 2009
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No Excuses
“If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.” —William Law.
Profound statement—one which I must admit is true.
Often times I fool myself into thinking that perhaps it was easier for the early Christians to...
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Threshing Fact From Fiction: An Ignorant...
Few things in life create more social tension than prying into people’s religious beliefs, particularly when the prying is done on camera. The 2008 Larry Charles/Bill Maher movie, “Religulous” does just that, and certainly takes no prisoners. The movie, for those who don’t know, is a comedy/documentary in which the host, Maher, travels to various places around the world to interview people from...
February 2009
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College: Where you’re liberal, or you’re wrong....
So I finally did it; after many months of consideration, prayer, consultation, and jumping through financial aid hoops, I’m officially a college student. In January I began to attend Front Range Community College. Since I’m still working full time I’ve had to take it easy on the classes, starting with only two at first, then hopefully working in more as I go. I’m taking a...