Personal

Old Lang’s sign

Dec
31
2012

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I miss old Lang. He was a good guy. So wise. I never learned Lang’s last name. Or maybe I never learned his first. I don’t know. No one ever called him anything but Lang.

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Is Obama one of the elect?

Nov
07
2012

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Get it? One of the elect? Get it?? Because he was elected? Har! Pffft. Can you believe some people think we Christians aren’t funny? Me neither. I blame Mark Driscoll, with his … Angry Birds haircut.

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Creativity, Pumpkin-heads, and Pee-Wee at the Movies

Oct
25
2012

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So I got in an email asking how I manage to be “so ridiculously creative!!!” I didn’t want to respond to that via a blog post, because even I’m not so arrogant that I don’t grasp how repulsively pretentious it is for anyone to write about why they’re so creative.

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San Diegans! HELLBOUND?, AMC Mission Valley 20, 7:30 TONIGHT! (And guess who’ll be there–besides me?)

Oct
04
2012

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Sorry for the late notice, but this just came together. If you’re in San Diego I can definitely recommend coming to the 7:30 showing tonight of HELLBOUND? at the AMC Mission Valley 20. Immediately following the show will be a Q&A with guests Rich McCullen, Colby Martin and myself. This is your last chance to [...]

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What the glass can’t hold

Sep
28
2012

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Last night my wife Catherine was thinking about why important and long-term relationships sometimes fail. This morning she awoke, went straight into her office, and made the below.

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Is Amazon using me to destroy Barnes and Noble?

Sep
27
2012

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As of this moment Amazon is having a huge sale on all my books, especially on their Kindle editions. (Authors have no control over when, why, or at what price Amazon puts their books on sale. All I know is the sales don’t last long—and that I love them, since I get paid the same [...]

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Dear John

It’s Mom’s choice: her dogma or her daughter

Mar
01
2013

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Hi John. I was raised going to a Baptist church, and consider myself very spiritual and close to God. My parents had my brothers and I in the church any time its doors were open. I loved growing up in the church. I always knew I was “different,” but didn’t fully understand that difference until I [...]

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Christian Issues

The fundamentally toxic Christianity

Sep
11
2012

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Everything that’s wrong with Christianity in one nutshell.

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Relationships

What does a woman mean when she says “I need space”?

Oct
18
2012

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Dear John, A good friend of mine suggested I contact you. I am now at the end of a five-year relationship and I am feeling lost as to what happened. We have had no fights, no disagreements, no infidelity. Just all of a sudden, it is over. I came home yesterday to a “Dear John” [...]

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Christian Spirituality

Joseph and Pregnant Mary at the Inn

Dec
09
2012

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Joseph: How do you feel, Mary? Mary: Pregnant. Very pregnant. Joseph: Are you comfortable? Do you have enough hay? Mary: I do, thank you. And thanks for doing such a thorough job cleaning that feeding trough. I can’t believe our baby’s first crib will be a feeding trough. Joseph: No, no: it’s not a feeding [...]

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Humor

Top 10 Things I WON’T Say To Rob Bell During Our Lunch Today

Apr
18
2012

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Later today I’ll be having lunch with former mega-church founder and leader, best-selling author and soon-to-be huge television star Rob Bell. While of course security concerns prohibit me from revealing the location of what Rob has called our “epic lunch,” two words should be enough for you to grasp the magnitude of this groundbreaking summit: [...]

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Personal

“Your laughter is interfering with my degrading shame”

Jan
28
2013

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If I had a thousand years and spoke as many languages I couldn’t begin to express my gratefulness for the messages of condolences so many of you sent me after learning that my father died. I feel my father read and was moved by them all. Each and every one of those messages also somehow [...]

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