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Boston Bombings | Justice, Grace, and Peace

Posted on 04/15/2013 by TransformingWords.org| Leave a comment

It’s 3pm Central Time and due to an abnormally busy work day, I’m just now finding out about the bombings in Boston at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Some sources say it’s another terrorist attack, but I haven’t been able to find enough confirmation from reliable sources. As my heart breaks for this country, enduring yet another tragedy in a string of senseless killings, I feel the weight of the gospel pressing in my heart as I consider how easily some of my running friends could have been injured or killed in this race.
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Remember Who You Were

Posted on 03/12/2013 by TransformingWords.org| 2 Comments

I’ve written about keeping Christ crucified the center of this space, and of how we need to be concerned about the Jesus we portray. Yesterday, I wrote about having compassion on those who walk as “enemies of the cross” (Phil. 3:18) and being so moved for them that we would even pray with tears. As I know I have a hard time doing this, I prayed and asked God to search my heart. I learned I had forgotten who I was.
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With Tears

Posted on 03/11/2013 by TransformingWords.org| 3 Comments

If you’ve read the blog this past week, then you know that God has really pressed on me to make the gospel, Christ crucified, the center of the words that fill this space. Pressing me to think more and call attention to how we portray Jesus in blogging and in life. This is along the same vein, but really includes Christ followers outside of the blogging world as well.
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The Wounds of a Friend

Posted on 03/05/2013 by TransformingWords.org| 2 Comments

Lately, I’ve been blessed to be able to maintain several friendships with some really solid Godly men and women. One of those men is Mike, who I affectionately call “the black brother I never had.” Every now and then we’ll get together and celebrate the common grace that is Pei Wei and talk about life, Theology, and gospel implications on ministry models and life in general. Inevitably, during these modern day communion meals (yes, Pei Wei is that good), our conversation will typically focus on either one of us, with some smaller parts on the other. And, now that I think about it, it always seems to be about the other person the next time we get together. During one of these conversations, I told Mike about a decision I made, and he asked me a question in response to what I told him. The caveat, here, was that he said that whatever answer I gave him, he was going to have to say “harsh friend words” to me. It was about then that I felt that “oh, crap” feeling begin to form in my gut.

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Beauty, Gender Roles, and Freedom

Posted on 03/03/2013 by TransformingWords.org| 2 Comments

So, I have this friend who has recently lost a lot of weight. When I commented on how good she looks now, she said she didn’t see it. Being the loving, encouraging friend that I am, I told her to go look in the mirror. Then she said that her whole life her mom told her that “there’s always something to make better.” Now, I don’t think that her mom was being cruel or malicious in any way. I think that, as a cosmetologist, she just had a hard time leaving work at work. She gets paid to help people look their best, and it’s hard to shut that off when you go home. I mean, it’s hard for all of us to leave work at work. I spent most of my life doing technical support where I pointed out problems and offered solutions. That’s great at work, but sometimes it can be very annoying around my friends and family. However, I think this illustrates a concept that has been so driven into our culture that we barely even notice what it does to us anymore.

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