• How Much Truth?

    We’re always supposed to tell the truth. But how much truth should we be telling?

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  • Headbands and Homosexuality

    This week we’ve got a cool story about a headband, a controversial take on a still-controversial topic, and America’s most-searched verse. The NFL tried to fine the Saints’ Demario Davis for his ‘Man of God’ headband. What happened next could easily be called a God thing. Homosexuality isn’t really a thing. And neither is heterosexuality.…

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  • Horizontal and Vertical

    The Cross is a more amazing symbol for the Christian faith than you probably realized.

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  • Is God Here?

    Does it ever feel like God’s not where you are?

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  • Parenting for Success

    Here is the teaching guide if you want to take notes. And yes, this one includes the second time in my life I’ve cussed during a sermon. It’s toward the end. As was the case the first time (about a decade ago), I talked myself into a corner. To say anything less would have drained…

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  • Ticking People Off

    For a loving dude, Jesus seemed to go out of his way to upset people. Ever wonder why?

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  • Mr. Rogers, Climate Change, and Boys on Drugs. Among Other Things

    Getting a week off means a backlog, quite a few outstanding think pieces and a fun article or two to boot. What if a gifted photographer waited around in museums until the observer matched the painting they were viewing? This. (The pic above is one example.) Kim and I saw the Mr. Rogers movie, Won’t…

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  • Check the Source

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For years, I’ve produced brief devotional videos called Jumpstarts that I published in various outlets. (You can find them here, as well as the odd podcast.) The root of those videos was daily Bible journals I’ve been doing for decades.

I recently decided to take a hiatus from the videos, and instead publish excerpts from those journals here.

As you’ll soon see, they tend to be brief, normally consisting of just one main idea. They may also be a little rough. I’m not going to do much editing. You’ll get them just the way they came out of my brain, years, days, or months ago.

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