Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Hopefully this isn’t an arrogant concept, because it’s one of the few original ideas I’ve had in my life. I realize that the vast majority of people who are interested in my life aren’t on twitter. And for those who are, most of you still only catch a fraction of my tweets. So I decided that, in [...]

Prompted by a suggestion from Bill Hybels’ book Axiom, I’ve begun to record poignant, original phrases of mine that I find myself consistently returning to in times of reflection or repeating to my friends. Obviously I find them somewhat insightful or else I wouldn’t write them down. Now that Fall season is officially over, I thought I’d share this [...]

Hey friends. You may have noticed I haven’t blogged for about two weeks now. It’s not because I don’t like you. It’s because I was busy in the lab, hashing out the ultimate plot to propose marriage to the woman of my dreams. And, as you likely inferred from the title of the post, it [...]

I have a confession. I love Justin Bieber. I love his voice, anyway. And his songs are so darn catchy! To be honest, I cringe to think about the effect that millions upon millions of sceaming girls has upon the ego of a 15 year-old male, but you’ve got to admit…the kid’s really good. But [...]

At our Southside New Life Team gathering a couple nights, we reflected on a difficult reality of the Christmas season: misrepresenations of Jesus. At the time of year when America collectively celebrates something that at least has its origins in the birth of the Messiah, our nation’s misconceptions of Jesus become considerably more public. It results in [...]

Chuck Colson and friends recently issued a document known as the Manhattan Declaration. The group hopes to affirm a biblical worldview in politics, and present it to Congress as a means of unifying Christians under common convictions that they claim are bipartisan, or rather non-partisan. Although the affirmations in the document are fairly consistent with the [...]