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Book Review: Five Stars for Piper’s Five Points —A Decent Articulation of an Indecent Theology

February 4, 2024

5 out of 5 stars. In John Piper’s “Five Points: Towards a Deeper Experience of God’s Grace,” Piper lays down a clear case for this crazy crazy crazy theology, complete…

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Crack Open a Can of Buzz Kill: The Absurdity of Energy Drinks

December 10, 2023

I worked at this fun, though admittedly garish, restaurant called Planet Hollywood while in college. After a particularly grueling week of classes, pummeled by tests and papers, I dragged my…

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Commentary: Lesser Drugs

November 30, 2023

LESSER DRUGS uncle Casey made me laugh so hard, when I was a kid, I’d cry. one time we were laughing I couldn’t even breathe. another time, in the truck,…

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Movie Review: 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

October 17, 2023

I really really wanted to like the movie 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. But WOW was it bad. Shallow and simplistic characters, plastic dialogue, and, sheesh, Dixon… this guy transforms…

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Why Did David Pick Up 5 Stones?

September 14, 2023

Ask almost any Christian: “How did young David defeat Goliath, the giant warrior?” Probably about 99 times out of 100 you’ll get an answer something like: “Because David had great…

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Approaching Horses: Commentary

September 6, 2023

APPROACHING HORSES and there past the barn I see the horses, grazing out in a field, together, but also alone. I see the horses standing in the sunlit fog. I…

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Sips: Commentary

July 2, 2023

I like the idea of our choices being like sips. We nibble ourselves to death in slow-motion suicides. We build mountains on our own backs made up of tiny, seemingly…

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Today is the Next Monotonous Day of the Rest of Your Life (a motivational post)

June 24, 2023

The problem with all these THIS-IS-THE-FIRST-DAY-OF-THE-REST-OF-YOUR-LIFE folks is that they emphasize the wrong thing. Their intention (noble and pure) is to get you to realize how special THIS day is,…

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Everyone Has a System. The True Story Behind: DEALER WINS

May 31, 2023

You wanna know the secret of how I kept my hundreds so crisp and flat? I’d take 5 or 6 bills and place them in the middle of a Bible…

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The God Machine

March 29, 2023

The humming noise seems to originate behind a set of industrial doors. The signs on the doors say AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY and DO NOT ENTER. But they left the door…

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