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Epiphany

May 19th, 2008

I had to watch Pastor Bil’s lastest sermon online because I woke up 5/18 sick like I was hit by a freight train. The last two months have been his best sermons ever. Imagine — a pastor talking, preaching on Vision & Leadership?!!! This is so awesome. Not to be a gushing, blushing teenager here, [...]

Hoping for Something Bad to Happen

January 23rd, 2008

Until recently — really recently — I kept hoping bad things would happen to me so I could get drunk. I am a binge drinker, which is a nuanced difference from being an alcoholic. Fundamentally, though, I can’t enjoy a beer with dinner. I want them all, however many are in my fridge. I responded [...]

Borrowing a Favor

January 11th, 2008

I’m reading the two year bible. That’s the One Year Bible read over two years. Last year I read each day’s New Testament and Psalm & Proverb. This year I’m focusing on each day’s Old Testament reading. I’ve read the bible through several times now, and I wanted to spend more time in each passage. [...]

$,$$$,$$$

January 9th, 2008

One of my mother’s cousins won a lottery in Montana a couple of days ago. He won $1,000,000. That’s a lot of money, but not really the “big” money by today’s standards. My mom emailed me, my brother, her sisters and their kids with the news and one of my aunts replied with a very [...]

WHO are we following, again?

December 21st, 2007

In this morning’s Bible study we ended up discussing church size and following our leaders. Later in the day I heard someone on the radio say that you can tell a leader by looking behind him. Does he have any followers? By this definition, Christ was and is quite a leader. In a smaller way, [...]

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