Don’t fall asleep, let’s stay up tonight Think of the words you could read, the words you could write I know the potential you’ll be, that you’ll never see I know the ideals you only feign Share a drink with me now, forget all about the most evil of days Ambien will...

My mentor and I were discussing this thought this past week: If you were to take the audio out of a church service, remove the audio of some “teen idol” concert, and watch the two silent videos side by side… how much of a difference would you see? I happened upon this...

5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our...

we rise as new gods flesh; no longer mere temples our worship is vain

During the harshness of winter, nothing is asked of the tree- but to survive. The leaves fall off and the tree becomes barren and ugly. But beauty is not called for in the winter. All that is called for is...

“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily...

I’ll file this one under “rant”. I’m just going to type about something that’s been prevalent, annoyingly so, on my mind for the past 6 months. When my son, Logan, was in the cardiac ICU unit of Boston’s Children’s hospital, I took part in dozens of...

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I feel like I’m being spoken to through music — realistically I think everybody’s had this experience at least once. Anyone who knows me, or who’s been following this blog, no doubt has heard me rant at least once or twice...

The drunk’s concern ain’t that he’s going to die from drinking — which he is — but that he’s going to run out of whiskey before he gets a chance to do it. If you were to give a drunk and drink and tell him he didn’t really want it, you’d be...

In the past few years I’ve started a love affair with words. I’m fascinated by everything about them — their pronunciation, proper use, and meaning. As I’ve been reading some books penned in the early 1900′s, I’ve actually noticed a degradation trend in the...

Three Stages of Life and Death by Hans Baldung Grien is my new favorite piece of art. If pictures are truly worth a thousand words, this masterpiece is scores of theology volumes: From the babe, to the beauty, to the worrisome elder and then the subsequent death, this picture is a beautiful...

For reasons I’ve just recently written about, these past few months have been a very real time of reflection for me. With trial after trial finding it’s way to family and my own personal faith and health issues needing accounting for, the past 5 years have been anything but a walk...

I hope Micheal J. Fox will forgive me for stealing his title — I just find it to be very appropriate. If you had asked me five years ago what my “five year plan” entailed, in brevity, it might have sounded something like this: Get a better job, purchase a house, and start...

Not too terribly long ago I overheard two people discussing the supposed “Christian” end of the world. One asserted that the Bible was/is a tale of bulls*t and that the supposed God ordained end of the world would really be man self fulfilling his own eschatological prophecy. The...

If there is an area I feel I may be lacking as a young father it would be the area of discipline. (Truth be told, I feel I’m lacking in more than a few ways, but that’s neither here nor there for this post.) It’s been my observation that just about every dad falls into one...

I’ve been enjoying my fair share of XtraNormal videos lately. The creativity and wisdom that comes through in such monotonous tones never fails to crack me up. Earlier today I came across the video “How Not To Invite Someone To Church”. It goes through the usual axioms...