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Mindless self indulgence (at Aptos, California)

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Forgiveness: Or, How to Kill a Sin by Really, Really Trying.

For better or worse, I find myself thinking about Forgiveness. As an act, Forgiveness isn’t something that is practically understood. It is too often painted as “the easy way out” of accountability or as an act of cowardice. Forgiveness is seen as a form of permission, instead of something far more complex. Many proud individuals, myself include, look at forgiveness as a form of sunshine and…

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Push. Push. Push again. Find your beauty along the way. (at Castle Rock Trail)

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So Long, 2017

Dear 2017, If you were a person, you would be my least favorite professor: manipulative, dismissive, and an all around awful person. (more…)

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The importance of having 100 things to learn:

“Excellence is not an act, but a habit” –Aristotle (more…)

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What to Do when you are a Christian Who Hates Christmas

Strip it down. Baptize it. Resurrect it from the dead. 

If you are like me, you’re over Christmas. In fact, you’ve been over it for a few years now. You don’t like the colors Green and Red in combination. You’re too grinchy to watch the Grinch, and Carols make you gag. You’ve stopped listening to the radio since the day before halloween. When people message you on Facebook “Merry Christmas,” you contemplate an alternative that isn’t “Happy Holidays,”…

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12/24/17 "When you're a Christian That's Had it With Christmas"

12/24/17 “When you’re a Christian That’s Had it With Christmas”

Angle: “When you are tired of the tinsel and the wrapping and the Christmas masses, its a sign that Christmas may just be starting to mean something to you.” The Problem: Christmas just isn’t what it used to be Maybe Christmas was terrible a year ago. Maybe this year hasn’t reflected any of the values of the hope of Christmas. Maybe the whole holiday has been a slap in the face, and no goodwill…

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To Us, in 2018:

“Teach us to Number our Days, that we may apply our hearts to Wisdom.” -Psalm 90:12 2017 is nearing a close, and like its predecessor, it has not been kind. When I think about where this past year has taken us, the words that come to mind are “stormy waters.” The national and political stage has become a site of fever-pitched dramas: it has not been pretty, nor has it been fair. This past year…

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Sunday Post--How to #Resist: On Living under Trump and an age of Political Instability

Sunday Post–How to #Resist: On Living under Trump and an age of Political Instability

Fellow Christians, we should be resisting. (more…)

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Let's Talk about The Book of Daniel: Identity, Personhood, and Oppression as told by the Bible.

Let’s Talk about The Book of Daniel: Identity, Personhood, and Oppression as told by the Bible.

There is a lie that has been going around causing great harm, and everyone is guilty of sharing that lie. (more…)

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After a the holiday week and a couple of false starts, back on the grind and up to 147.8 lbs. 8 more weeks to go!

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A Tale of Two Christians: How Biola's Seminar on Homosexuality showed me the difference between American Evangelicalism and Faithful Study Under Christ

A Tale of Two Christians: How Biola’s Seminar on Homosexuality showed me the difference between American Evangelicalism and Faithful Study Under Christ

A few weeks ago, The Bible Institute of Los Angeles (Biola) held a graduate seminar open to the paying public on Homosexuality. I was there.  (more…)

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We Come in Peace: a Meditation

We Come in Peace: a Meditation

“Therefore put on the full armor of God…with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.” -Ephesians 6:13, 15 (more…)

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Like, Share, Follow: A Purpose-Driven Life in a Digital Media Age

Like, Share, Follow: A Purpose-Driven Life in a Digital Media Age

It goes something like this: you stumble across some content; you laugh, or cry, or get angry; you share that content with a comment; you move on. Somewhere along the way, you pick up a few terms; political ones, shareable ones, fast and loose and a vernacular that’s really all their own. You get a vocabulary. You associate like things. You build an internal reference guide. You Like, you Share,…

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at The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park

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Sometimes a road is all you need.