Category: Personal Adventures
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Why You Need an Anti-Library
As I sit and write, this is generally my view. I could of course look out the window to my right, which I often do in anticipation of the mail coming. That’s usually because the mail brings books, which at this point overflow their shelves. Thankfully, those books are most often provided by gracious publishers.…
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TheoFit 31 Day Challenge (Starts Tomorrow!)
It might be a tad too late to post about this, but better late than never. Tomorrow, December 1st, my friend Paul Maxwell is starting a 31 Day Fitness Challenge for his TheoFit website. The challenge has 3 components to it: 20% calorie deficit in your diet 4-5 days a week of resistance training (he…
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Giving Tuesday: Support Our College Ministry at UCF
Sometimes a blog post like this is a shot in the dark. But, it is Giving Tuesday after all, and as we all know, it can’t hurt to ask! At the very least, it’ll be a good primer to get you up to speed on what we’re up to in college ministry. To not bury…
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Whatever Happened to Book Reviewing?
As Thanksgiving break approached, I had made mental plans to start the update process. After several years post-seminary of aggressive book reviewing, I needed a break. But, over time, the break became the new normal, while the reading habits stayed pretty much the same. In all likelihood, I won’t completely catch up on reviewing books…
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One Year Later, Ten Years Later: An Introduction
This time last year, we left the church we had been attending since moving to Florida. It was something we had considered the previous fall, and loosely the fall before that. We had actively tried to sever ties the summer before that. If you’re keeping score, that means our relationship with that local church had…
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Let’s Catch Up on Life!
The mountains are often lovely this time of year in Florida. However, this mountain is fake, and our only access to it is because we have Disney passes and it’s a ride in Animal Kingdom. Not this past weekend, but the weekend before that we celebrated our 8 year anniversary by a little getaway down…
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What It’s Like to Live Through A Major Hurricane
Before I really tell the story of the last week here in Orlando, a couple of caveats are in order. First, I’m writing this from my intact house that has power, water, and wifi. Second, what we lived through was not on the same level as say my friend Steven in the Bahamas during Hurricane…
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A Cartography of Christian Publishing
When I was in school geography was one of my favorite subjects. I actually went to the state geography bee when I was in middle school because the spelling bee was too mainstream. I like to know the lay of the land and often that involves reading maps. Or, taking aerial photographs when the opportunity…
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All Cell Detox: Thoughts on Being Tech-Wise
I joked earlier on Instagram that I had been taking this supplement and now I can’t find my phone. The truth is, I’ve been doing some summer reading that’s reshaping how I think about technology in general, and phones in particular. It all started back in April when I did a brief review of Tony…
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How I Organize My Library
Summer is often a time of refreshing. You might not expect that because it is often miserably hot outside here in Florida. But, I like to do some organizing and cleansing over the summer and this takes places in many domains. After nearly becoming without form and void, my library was in need of an…