I’m surprised at how much I’ve been blogging on preaching over the last year. It’s an incredibly interesting art-form, and at the same time a very odd thing to be spending your time doing.
Yesterday I preached for my current advanced preaching class… a few thoughts.
Preaching remains a love / hate thing for me. [...]

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For our date night this week we hit cirque du soleil, Kooza. Only way we were able to afford it was through a big discount they were offering for students and teachers, which worked out just right for us.
It’s absolutely phenomenal what the human body is capable of.
My favorite parts of the night were [...]

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The previous sunday, I was wondering the halls during a worship gathering (our church plant meets in a Monte Carlo Inn), and had my best conversation of the weekend with an 11 year old boy staying at the hotel.
We instantly connected because he had a mohawk and I guess it was similar to my current [...]

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Looks like I’m reaching about a thousand comments on this site, to celebrate I’m attempting to import my archives from an older blog that goes back till 2004.  So far the import tool gets stuck around 70 posts or so, I’ll see what I can do.  Either way, you can find the archives in the [...]

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I did my first baptism yesterday.
After the service I had people asking me, who I was, if I was a pastor, or if I was ordained…
…to which I replied that the Scriptures describe Jesus telling those who follow him to go, make disciples, and baptize… that means all of us, not just the upper tier [...]

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Have you ever found yourself good at something, that you’d rather not be good at?
As my time at seminary is wrapping up, I’ve found myself disturbingly good at churning out papers. I’ve been a straight-A student for the most part, but what does that really mean in the real world, or better yet, in [...]

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A few thoughts that came out of a discussion I was in yesterday…
Sabbath is suppose to be counter cultural - the Israelites were known as people who took a day out to rest in God
“I use to believe that Sabbath was a form of punishment from God so that I couldn’t get my work done”
Sabbath [...]

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One early morning a decade ago, I heard on the radio that the first one hundred people to line up to purchase Radiohead’s OK Computer would be given a free ticket to their North American premiere at the Opera House.
I didn’t have a car at the time and ended up pulling a friend out of [...]

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