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Let’s Argue!
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Arguing just to be right is pointless. Arguing for what’s right is important. How we do it, though, is critical. I tweeted these words a few days ago. I had been in a ‘discussion’ with someone that had been going on for a few days… yeah, a few days. Finally, I had had enough.…
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Are Pastors Really Full Of It?
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I was blind-sided by this tweet a week or two ago. The tweet came out of nowhere and was sent from someone I haven’t had any previous interaction with on twitter. I had just started following them the day before. What concerns me? It’s not that this was sent to me or that I…
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Jigsaw Puzzles, Identity, and Finding Your Place
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Around last Christmas, my wife talked me into sitting down and doing a jigsaw puzzle with her. I’m not a huge fan of puzzles, I don’t have the patience to spend hours looking for the corner of a tree that the box top tells me has to be in there. This night, though, I…
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Lessons From Furniture Shopping
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A few weeks ago, Melissa and I moved into our new home. It’s our first house purchase (still a little overwhelmed with that debt deal) and we wanted to make it as nice as we possibly could for our budget. Of course, one of the major ways to make a home comfy is the…
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Why I Often Think About Quitting My Blog
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…because the things I often write about, I fail to practice… Caring too much about what other people think About acting instead of talking About removing distractions from our lives About helping the millennial generation understand Christ Those are some of the things I’ve blogged about in the past 3 months. At the time,…
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3 Signs of A Good Critic
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We all have those people in our lives that like to tell us how what we’re doing isn’t quite up to par. You know, these are the people that often begin sentences with statements like… “That’s not how I’d do it, I’d…” “What if you did this…” “That’s all you’ve got?” The problem? Some…