Category: Personal Adventures
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Why I Went To Seminary
There should be a compelling reason anyone would opt to spend more money on a graduate education when in many cases a good undergraduate degree can get you started off in a promising career. This is especially true for someone like myself, who managed to graduate college with zero debt by never taking out a…
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Wanna Trade Starbucks Mugs?
Starbucks seems to be a hot topic right now, so let’s talk about collecting mugs. When Ali and I got married, we started collecting the city mugs available at the time. If you remember, and even if you don’t, these were in the Architecture series. Shortly after we started collecting these, the Icon series released,…
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Arriving Somewhere: A Series on Seminary Studies
It’s hard to believe it’s been 8 years since I packed up my life and moved to Dallas to start seminary. Four years ago, I graduated and Ali and I moved to Florida. We initially lived with her parents and ironically, did so again last month for a short time in between rentals. Having finished four years…
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3 Reasons I Want to Review Books (And You Might Too)
You may remember a blog series I claimed to be starting last fall. I’ve long thought it worth putting some organized thoughts down on how to go about being a book reviewer. For reasons I can’t remember, I was sidetracked last fall and so the series never really got off the ground. As I’m getting…
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Answering The Problem of Evil and Suffering
Early in this school year, I had a chance to sit down and read I (Still) Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship. You can somewhat tell what the book is about based on the subtitle. I enjoy reading biographical sketches like this, especially if it’s authors that I am familiar…
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Music Monday: @mewithoutYou in Orlando Last Night
For the sixth time, I saw mewithoutYou live last night. It was actually full circle last time I saw them because it was in St. Pete were I saw them for the first time on the Tooth & Nail tour in 2004. Last time I saw them was at the last ever Underoath show,…
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Wisdom from Tim Keller on Why Pastors Fall
On the surface, this might seem like a post about Tullian Tchividjian’s recent resignation from his pastorate at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. In reality, it was motivated by a pastor in our network of churches (CrossPointe) that was disqualified from ministry a couple of months ago. He had been the pastoral apprentice at our congregation…
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The Winner of The One-Chapter Challenge
Once upon a time, I started reviewing books on this blog. After doing several reviews, I stumbled upon the ability to receive free books in exchange for my thoughts and pursued transactions of this type in earnest. As reviews began piling up, e-mails soon followed containing requests to review books. More often than not, these…
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What Do You Think About The NIV?
Apparently, this is the 50th anniversary of the NIV, and there’s a pretty intense new study Bible coming out later this year. I’ll be honest though, the NIV is not usually my translation of choice. I think I grew up with it somewhat, but my first study Bible was NKJV, and then I switched to…
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Music Monday: MAE | The Everglow Tour
Not long after I had said bye to my friend Matt after hanging out for the weekend, I get a text. “Mae is playing at the House of Blues tonight.” I’m pretty sure this is a mistake. They had already gone on a farewell tour, broken up, and now had other projects in motion. But,…