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Recent blog posts
Stereo buttons - A true story
A while back, the stereo in my friend’s car broke in a particularly annoying way: the “volume down” button stopped working. Or, I should say, it stopped working consistently. Sometimes it made the volume go down. But sometimes it made the volume go up instead, which was truly aggravating if someone annoying like Bruno Mars came on the radio while you were trying to have a serious conversation. I offered to try and fix it,…
Countless second chances
Since the contents of this half-written post came up conversation three times today, it’s time to finish it. Those who are musically well-versed (at least in the limited genre of trendy contemporary-Christian music) will mock me for this, but I just discovered Rend Collective Experiment’s new(ish) album this week. And it is really, really good. The whole album is excellent, but today one song has been running through my mind. The chorus shouts, Oh, your…
Luke 16
Money is perhaps the most difficult topic in the American church today. Our society considers it a taboo subject; it’s not polite to ask how much money someone makes or how much they paid for their car (or, as likely, how much they owe on their car). Within the church the silence can be stifling [1]. It is awkward at best for a paid minister to stand up and deliver a sermon on money, and…
