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Fear

Liz is in the middle of training for Ironman Arizona, which means that her Saturday and Sunday mornings are spent training. We hadn’t been in church together for a couple of months. Our friends Joe and Blythe are in the same category, since Joe is training for the same event. We decided to look for [...]

Joe Is Alive

My friend Joe was in an accident on Saturday, he was hit by an 18-wheeler. I do not mean that he had a car accident. I mean Joe was riding his bicycle in the shoulder of a highway and a semi went into the shoulder and hit Joe. I’m not kidding.
Here’s the amazing part. Joe [...]

The Good Life

This past weekend was pretty great. My friends Doug and Meg got married on Saturday, and I got to be an usher in their wedding. I’ve known Doug for 10 years, and I’ve been close to he & Meg since they started dating, and it has been really clear from the start that they adore [...]

Change

Last year I started a progression of blog entries about my theology shifting, and promised to write more about that. Right after that I fell in love with the coolest girl ever and my life has started to change in accordance. Theology couldn’t hold my attention while I was in the throes of young love.
I [...]

Study

I’ve been going through this transition and growth period over the past six months, and throughout this time I’ve been praying for a venue to practice what I’ve been learning. About six weeks ago I was talking about some of this stuff with a friend, and she got excited and said that she’s been [...]

SHIFT_theology

I have indicated a number of times over the past months that my spiritual life has been in flux. Over the past couple of years I have developed a distorted, or handicapped view of my relationship to Christ, though I don’t fully understand how that happened, other than complacency on my part. My relationship to [...]

Reach Me

This morning when I woke up I had Psalm 19 stuck in my head. I have been more disciplined about reading scripture lately, but I have a plan that I’m on, and I haven’t deviated from the plan, other than to set the bible down for weeks at a time. So it is [...]

Millertarian

Okay, so I’ve been working for the past couple of weeks on a post to explain why I like Donald Miller’s work so much. The essay keeps growing and growing, I think its something like four pages long right now. I just read it again this morning, and it turns out that I’m [...]

Raw Faith

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my lack of faith, and my desire to re-kindle it. This is a slow process.
I have committed to a bible study with a couple of other guys that are in a similar place spiritually. We met to discuss the study, and what we wanted to [...]

I Don’t Trust God

I am a christian, which is to say that I trust Christ as my savior. And yet, over the past several months I have not been living for him. I am saved by grace and fueled by egocentrism. What a mess!
I do not mean that I am necessarily pursuing things that are [...]