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A Letter to My Rock Star 2

Apr

27

2012

Danielle, While you’ve been doing your “April project” (which I know has been hard for you), I’ve been doing my own project. I don’t know if you noticed or not, but I took Wednesdays this month off from FB. I know it’s been a problem in both our lives and I wanted to cut back. ...

Pornography and the Church 10

Mar

28

2012

Warning: this post will be offensive to some and is probably not appropriate for younger readers. I remember the day like it was yesterday. My dear friend, John Loux, had stopped over to my house one day to chat before moving out of the area. I really didn’t think much of it. Man, was I ...

Dear Joy 3

Mar

8

2012

Dear Joy, Your daddy misses you. A lot. And you wouldn’t have even been born yet. I wanted to write to you mostly to make myself feel better. I don’t know what it’s like in Heaven or how it works. I hope you have gotten a chance to meet your older brother – Enoch. I ...

Facebook Explanation

Feb

25

2012

I know I don’t really owe anyone an explanation as to why we’re back on Facebook, but I thought I’d post a blog about it, instead of having to answer the question over and over again 🙂 As many of our friends know we’ve gone on 2 Facebook “breaks” recently. Mostly due to issues mentioned ...

Truth & Grace 2

Feb

21

2012

John 1:14 – “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of being full of grace and truth. Warning – Truth Bombs ...

Angry Elf 2

Feb

17

2012

Ephesians 4:26-27 26 “In your anger do not sin”[d]: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. I have dealt with a lot of anger recently, and since writing appears to be therapeutic for me, I figured I’d get some of it ...

Who Saves Your Life From the Pit 2

Nov

30

2011

…who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion… (Psalm 103:4) I’ve been thinking about this verse lately, and it, and the feedback I received from my last post, sparked me to share another personal story I hope will be helpful. There are a handful of times in my life ...

Penn State Anger

Nov

10

2011

As the news of sex scandal at Penn State continues to come out I’ve found myself incredibly angry and emotional, a little more than I thought necessarily appropriate. I’m incredibly angry at what happened to these innocent children. I’m upset that the career of one of colleges most-respected coaches has to end this way. I’m ...

Goo Goo Dolls Come to Mansfield

Oct

30

2010

The Goo Goo Dolls played at Decker Gym on Sunday, October 24. We were fortunate enough to get tickets and went to the show with our friends Dan, Andrea and Roxanne. The show was AMAZING! We caught the tail end of the opening act and got decent seats for GGD. The guys seemed down to ...

The Appearance of Evil? 3

Oct

18

2010

How many times have you heard “abstain from all appearance of evil…” in reference to some situation in your life or in the lives of others? This comes from 1 Thessalonians 5:22. The more I’ve read about this verse recently, the more I’m convinced that we aren’t applying it properly to our lives. Here’s why. ...