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My brother in law, prayer, love, and grace
We spent some time this weekend in Tennessee with my wife’s family. As you may remember, last Monday my brother-in-law fell eighteen feet from a rooftop and landed on his back, breaking three vertebra, two ribs, and his sternum. As … Continue reading
Analogous Grace: Why God chooses to bless certain things
In my last article on grace, I wrote about Prescriptive Grace and the way that grace is always applied specifically according to God’s desires. In this post, I want to talk about grace in a slightly different way, but first … Continue reading
Prescriptive Grace: The How’s and Why’s of Grace
If you’ve grown up in Christian circles or read many books on Christian topics, you probably run across a lot of different definitions for grace. Things like, “Grace is the unmerited favor of God” or “Grace is the power and … Continue reading
Tagged God, Grace, Knowledge, Life in general, Love, Responsibility
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Respecting our Depravity
Perhaps you’ve experienced the following: You are watching television, a crime-drama or a thriller, something like CriminalMindsBonesNumbers or CSI:MiamiNewYorkIdaho. You know exactly the sort of show I’m speaking of. On the screen there is a woman. She is at home … Continue reading
Programming for fun
If you know me very well at all, you know that I like geeky, technical things. I like computers and technology. I like gadgets and electronics. I like Linux. I like Windows. I like Macs. I also like to program. … Continue reading
Tagged Life in general, News, Programming, Ruby
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The rebuke of a friend is sweet
Yesterday, a friend of mine took me to task for something, and while it wasn’t pleasant, it was comforting to know that he cares about me. He wasn’t mean or rude or unfair to me in any way, he was … Continue reading
Tagged Friendship, Holy Scripture, Life in general, Love, Scripture
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Don’t shake hands with Sheryl Crow
I know that this has been blogged to death, but I couldn’t let it pass by without comment. From the Washington Post’s Biodiesel bug blog: “Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, … Continue reading
Tagged Life in general, Music, Musicians, News, Pop Culture, TMI
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Feature Request: A car that will make me a better husband
Here’s my dream scenario: It’s 5:30 P.M. and I’m pulling into my apartment complex. As I near my parking space, the radio fades to silence and a pre-recorded message begins playing: You are arriving at home. Do not be deceived … Continue reading
Posted in Fathers, Mothers
Tagged Children, Life in general, Obedience, Responsibility, Selfishness
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mourning
I have never been anything other than a man and so I cannot know how women mourn and whether it is the same, or different I have seen the mother, the wife, the girl, sitting at her bedside, her dead … Continue reading
Worshipping Youth, part II
This weekend I saw a commercial for Disneyworld vacations. It was brilliant. It began with a father and a son sitting side by side atop a giant waterslide. They look at each other, they grin competitively, and then they slide … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Daughters, Discipleship, Faith, Life in general, Obedience, Responsibility, Sons, The Unlived Life
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