Tag Archives: Church

With Love and Grace

I’ve been thinking a lot about writing. Partially because it seems like it’s been ages since I’ve been able to really write, even though it’s only been a couple weeks. But also because I started thinking about how I write, and how I engage people on social media. Whether I’m too brash when I feel confident in something, or too arrogant when I see someone type something that makes me shake my head in disagreement. A friend of mine, Mike, is a young adult pastor and he said some things as we were going through 1 Peter 2 that made me stop and think about all this.
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Closing the Gap

Last week, work was almost pure craziness. In addition to my role as a software developer I seem to have also taken on the role of tech support. This won’t be permanent (I hope), but it’s still exhausting. I got myself wrapped up in this by trying to help someone else. That’ll teach me. Well, probably not.
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Rest. Faith. Sabbath.

So, I was ridiculously quiet last week. I only ran two posts and was barely on social media. This week may be about the same. It’s been a good couple months of going hard at it, working and reading and writing. But not much room for Sabbath.
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Why I Write Hard Posts

One of my friends mentioned that I’d been addressing some difficult topics lately. Modesty is the only one that I’m aware is particularly difficult, or at least polarizing, but I thought it would be helpful to take a moment and explain why I do my best to work through these tough concepts and issues.
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Must Reads 09/19/2013

Well, it’s almost the end of the week and I felt like I needed to shake things up a bit this week. So, it’s time to share some blogs that I’ve read over the past week. It is my joy to share them with you, and I pray that God moves in you as He did in me when I first read them.

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