As patient as I am deadly.

Now I’d guess that not all of these people actually NEED to be medicated, but the point is that one out of every five adults you meet FEEL like they need to be medicated.  And that’s scary.

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Dear Mr. President, I know where you can find a terrorist

Dear Mr. President, I know where you can find a terrorist, several actually.  So PLEASE sic the Department of Justice on him (them).

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This do in remembrance of…..who?

Man has an interesting ability to make anything and everything something about themselves.  As was recently pointed out to me, even when we put away pride in our lives it’s not long before our mind is saying, “You know, I’m doing a great job at not being so prideful.  I bet I’m doing a better […]

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Werewolf Eyes

Remember Michael J. Fox as Teen Wolf?  Remember how he started “wolfing out” and couldn’t control it?  (That show terrified me, by the way.  I was gonna put up a pic of old MJFox as the Teen Wolf but when I googled the pictures it still gave me the eejeebeejies.)

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The Challenge Of A Seared Conscience-Part 2

This post is part of a series on Challenges To Our Faith that you can find here.  You can find the first post in the “Seared Conscience” class here. The Challenge Of A Seared Conscience-Part 2 What are some ways that we can have our consciences seared today?

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The Challenge Of A Seared Conscience-Part 1

This post is part of a series on Challenges To Our Faith.  It’s not really necessary to follow the series in order, but if you’re interested in the rest of them you can find the landing page for the series here.

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Now we’re throwing teachers in jail?

If you haven’t heard, this week school teachers and administrators in Atlanta were found guilty of changing students’ answers on tests so that they would receive a passing grade.  And then they were sent to prison. Oh my goodness gracious.  Are Georgia’s prisons really so empty that they need to fill it up with some […]

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Family Complaint Form–Engaged

If your house is anything like ours, there’s a fair amount of time spent putting out fires.  Not literally, well-we actually DO spend some time putting out real fires, but that’s not what I mean.  I’m talking about those little arguments that manage to crop up when you’ve got kids that can consume all.  of. […]

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I’mAGiver’s Guide To Hotel Survival

I enjoy traveling with my family.  I like seeing the boys get excited about staying in a hotel and watching cartoons on cable (which we don’t have at home) and I love having a shower that never runs out of hot water. But it’s no secret that I’m also unreasonably paranoid about staying in a […]

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The Challenge Of Defending Our Faith–Pigs & Pearls

This post is the second in a series on Challenges To Our Faith and this link can be used to see the entire series.   The New Testament is full of admonishments for Christ’s followers to share the good news of the gospel with the world and to be ready to defend their faith to unbelievers. […]

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Dear Illegitimate Debt Collectors…

Last year I had to go to physical therapy for an ankle injury.  Long story short, they’re trying to bill me for an appointment that I never went to.  I dealt with the office, who said it was resolved.  I dealt with the office’s parent hospital, who said it was resolved.  Now I’m dealing with […]

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12 hours, 300 miles and 1 Picture Worth Taking

We loaded the kids up last week to take a road trip through the Hill Country.  Actually, that’s not entirely true.  We loaded the kids up to drive 300 miles to take one picture, the road trip was just the lagniappe.  

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Dear Mr. President, Black Lives DO Matter

Dear Mr. President, I don’t normally watch the news but today I overheard several people talking about the latest police shooting of a black man by a white police officer.  A quick google search turned up news reports and dizzyingly unsteady cellphone videos of the shooting…and the obligatory “Black Lives Matter” protestors.

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Treating the symptom, or the disease?

I don’t know about you, but I don’t really have a big problem with just treating the symptoms of an illness sometimes.  If I’m sick with something simple like allergies or a cold I don’t actually care what is going on inside my body, I just want to feel better. But that’s stupid.

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Challenges To Our Faith–Intro

So here’s the plan…  Every Sunday for the next twelve weeks I’ll be teaching a class on Challenges To Our Faith.  I plan on posting the previous Sunday’s lesson every Monday throughout the series.  It’s a little challenging to convert a conversation completely into print, but I’ll do my best to cover all the material […]

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New Schedule

Just a heads up, my plan is to start a Monday – Wednesday – Friday schedule for posts here, rather than every day. Every Monday will be a new post in a series we’re doing at our congregation titled Challenges To Our Faith.  Look for the first post tomorrow morning.  I think this will be a […]

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The Malthusian Trap

Just imagine the situation… You’re living in a village raising some corn and along comes a new fertilizer that doubles your production. All of a sudden you can afford to have a few more kids. And then the people down the way find out your land is producing bumper crops of corn and so they […]

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The hardest stupid decisions we make.

I really think the hardest decisions to make are not the important decisions in life.  The hard decisions are usually the stupidest ones.

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Maybe everybody SHOULD get a trophy…

Let’s get real about this trophy business.  And I’m not talking about how EVERY kid gets a trophy these days in little league.  I’m talking about how EVERY grown up gripes incessantly about it.

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Read Your Kids’ Books

Not read books to your kids, but read your kids’ books.

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