Category: Personal Adventures
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Top Posts of 2013 and Collected Book Reviews
According to my back-end stats page, here are the top 10 posts on the blog this year: Why I Dropped The Horner Bible Reading Plan 4 Steps To Better Bible Study Inception Within Inception How To Worship When You Think The Songs Suck How To Be More Productive In College Why The Spinning Top in…
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The Great Christmas Book Preview
Well, it’s that time of year. Time to the all important gift choices for the book lover in your life. Conveniently, it also time for me to consolidate my review shelf and go ahead and preview several titles that I know I won’t get time to engage in detail. I mentioned this a while back,…
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Pray For Your Wife: The Challenge Is Now An App
Back in August, I joined a challenge on Facebook to pray for your wife for 31 days (actually I prayed for my own wife, but you get what I’m saying). It helped me develop the habit and gave me a specific thing to pray for each day. Naturally, I decided it would work in September…
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Why I Deleted The Mail App on My iPhone
I’ve had a smartphone of some kind for about 8 years now. The first one I got was a HTC flip phone with Windows on it. It lasted about 18 months and then the screen died because it tended to snap shut way harder than necessary. This meant I reverted to an old school Nokia…
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Worship Music Makes My Mind Wander
This was a realization I had the other day and I’m wondering why it took so long. Some of it might be the fresh perspective I had after spending the summer working Sat/Sun mornings at Starbucks. By doing that, I missed church for the better part of two months. The first Sunday I was back,…
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3 Types of Book Reviews
Up until now, I’ve mainly only done two kinds of reviews. Originally it was only one, but it slowly evolved into two, and so it’s only natural to move on to a third category. Here’s the rundown on what I’ll be doing from now on. Critical Reviews My initial foray into reviews was primarily critical…
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Reflections on The Road Less Traveled
10 years is a long time. I’m reckoning with that more and more as I think back to starting college 10 years ago right around this time. The more I’ve thought about it, and the more I’ve thought about where I am now, I thought it might be helpful to retrace my steps a bit.…
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How Goodreads Meddles With My Reading Habits
If you’re like me, you’re a list maker. Also, you like to read. Given those two attributes, you naturally probably use Goodreads. Right now, I predominantly use it to track my reading. I will also occasionally blurb a review on there when I finish a book that I don’t plan on fully reviewing here. And…
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Why Mondays Are The Best
A couple of months back, two things occurred to me. 1) I’ve lived in Florida for over 2 years now and 2) I hardly ever go to the beach even though its only an hour to Daytona. With the prospect of God providing full time work in a state that might be aesthetically challenged, I…
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Running Without A Title
You may have noticed (if you click through RSS) that there is no header anymore on the blog. Technically, that means the blog has no particular title, which given the history of my blogging makes it another phase in my search for a title. For now at least, I’ve decide to run without a title, which…