I like words. I like the sound of them as well as the sense of them. I love how one word can save the time of saying a bunch of other unnecessary words that otherwise would take a lot of words to say what you want to say, that is, if you actually have something …
Palm Trees, Toy Soldiers, and Alcoholics*
Christians, as I see it, are some of the worst at making adjustments. Life isn’t nearly as predictable as we would wish, so detours are a more regular occurrence than we planned when we embarked on the trip. So we have to learn to expect the unexpected, bring our fears about them to God and …
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Simplicity and Stuff
I gave a primer on the topic of Simplicity in both blog and podcast form. After that I shared two symptoms of a simple life: sincerity and spontaneity. Here I share in outlinish form about Simplicity and Stuff, you know, possessions, money, and just stuff. I put some meat on these bare bones in a …
Buying and selling humans?!
I have a t-shirt that says, “Ban Slavery” and some middle school aged kids on their bikes waiting at the corner for the light to change looked at my shirt and said, “There are no slaves in the world today! Are there?” “Yeah, about 27 million they say.” “No way!” “I know, shocking, huh?” “Where …
Sometimes do and sometimes don’t (Part 2)
What do you think? Did the Washingtonian florist do the right thing to refuse to do the flowers for the wedding between two gay men? There has been no shortage of surly pontificating over this one issue, and in my view, way too many words have already been wasted on it. So, why would I …
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