Personal Growth I tried waking up two hours early every day this week "I'm going to go to bed at 10, and wake up at 4:30 every day this week." That's what I told Adriana last weekend. I had been listening to
Christian Life Pausing before prayer The practice of quieting before prayer is one of pragmatism. I'm not sure if everyone else can just close their eyes and start speaking to the everlasting God of all the universe, but I certainly have to come back to the realization that this is a holy moment.
Family Jesus Wept I stood outside of a Publix on February 8th, 2018. It was eight in the morning and it was cold, but I had to stand outside because you step outside
focus Macro Focus I recently saw a comment on Hacker News about what it takes to focus your interests. The commenter said that you shouldn't consume "interesting" content. Everything's interesting. You should only
study Life as a Serial Generalist I have learned that, aside from the expertise that is necessary to do well at my job, I am not much of an expert. This fact has bothered me at
Christian Life How to Read the Entire* Bible in One Sitting You may or may not believe its truth claims, or ascribe to its worldview, but regardless, the Bible is a fascinating compendium of historical narration, legal documents, poetry and eye-witness
Education Getting Good at Math (Again?) Math and I have a very peculiar history. When I was a kid, I wanted to be an inventor. I would sketch out ideas for machines that kept ball bearings
Poetry All is Well (A Poem) The morning’s truth may hide itself From ideas that you truly feel But truth is more than what is felt And faith unveils the now concealed The waves will
Poetry The Polaris-Away (A poem) Beyond the Seuss and Austen books But just before the nonfiction doors There sat a note with a peculiar look That never had been there before. It was perched upon
Politics A Post-Election Hope For those of you that I have a real life relationship with, I want to take a moment and share my heart with you. Over the past two days, I
Christian Life Escaping The Upside Down If our daily interactions with people, the work that we do, and the thoughts that we think is the “real world”, the opposite could be named, to borrow a phrase
Stewardship Discovering A Practical Stewardship I spent some time working in tech support, and during my first few months, my mantra was “I don’t even know what questions I should even be asking yet.
Christian Life The Local Church Should Be Diverse During our time of youth pastoring, one of the on-going conversations that we had was about race. We would openly acknowledge differences and celebrate them. This was to the surprise
Christian Life Choosing To Pray For Healing Being raised in the Church, I saw lots of people pray for miraculous healings. I was taught to lay hands on the sick and believe God for knees to be
Travel Ordering Burgers In Russian If I were to list the top 5 weirdest accomplishments of my life, right up there beside “actually rescuing a kitten from a tree” would be that time that I
Stewardship Learning To Steward My Home Well On December 23rd, my wife and I began moving into our first home. If you’ve ever bought a house before, you already know all of the accompanying feelings well—
Youth Ministry I cried a lot last night Last night I said goodbye to a nine year tradition of spending nearly every Wednesday night with a bunch of middle school and high school students. For the duration of
Christian Life Sometimes I doubt I think it’s very reasonable to go to God with the hard questions — with tears in our eyes and frustration in our hearts and ask God why. I don’t think that intimidates Him.
Car Maintenance And Loving People I’ll be honest. I don’t know much about cars. I grew up writing code, illustrating self-made comic books and playing music. Somehow, those teenage lessons of changing oil,
