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How To Get Unstuck At Work
I had a conversation today with my coworkers about what to do when you feel like you are stuck in a rut and actually need to get a lot of things done. I realized looking back that my two biggest...
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Interviewed on The Gospel Driven Entrepreneur
I was recently interviewed on The Gospel Driven Entrepreneur Podcast by P.J. Simmons. It was a fun conversation. We talked about: How I got into Web design and why I started Mere Agency Fears I had...
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Summer Sabbatical 2016
This Summer I am doing something I haven’t done in 16 years of fairly active ministry (3 years as a college student, 11 years as a bi-vocational “lay minister”, and the last 2.5 as an ordained pastor):...
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All things to all people, or a few things to a few?
When I think about it, I have heard (and myself used) the verse “I have become all things to all people, that by any means, I might save some.” (1 Cor 9:22b) as cause to hyper-focus on a demographic in...
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Shepherd-sheep, Teacher-student
As a shepherd of God’s people, my job is to lead people to The Shepherd, Jesus. Because I need Him as much as (maybe more than) everyone. My job in saying “follow me” is not that you would model my...
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Book Review: The Cradle, The Cross, and The Crown: An Introduction to the New...
I was recently provided a copy of The Cradle, The Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament (2nd Edition) by B&H Academic for review, and I am excited to write about it. The book...
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On Politics 2016.
If you follow me on social media at all, you may or may not have noticed that I am mildly opposed to the GOP nominee for president. (Because the internet is largely devoid of tone, except for very...
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Four Essential Prerequisites for Focus
Focus is essential for success in any endeavor, and I’m terrible at it (most of the time). A friend of mine used the phrase “professional squirrel hunter” to describe me. (Note: this is a reference to...
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Great New Kids Book: The Radical Book for Kids
Reading is a big deal in my family. Trying to keep my 10 year old “in books” is worse that trying to keep her in shoes or clothes (which she outgrows at a rapid pace). We’re regular patrons at our...
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Quick review of Unchained by Noel Jesse Heikkinen
Freedom in Christ is a tricky, tricky, tricky subject to get right. Christians believe (actually, Jesus taught) that holiness and obedience are crucial to the faith (John 14:15). But what is obedience?...
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Review, reflections, and quotes: Think Again by Jared Mellinger
I read a lot of books. About 1 in 10 is worth mentioning. Think Again by Jared Mellinger is one of them. My corner of evangelical christianity is fairly heavily introspective. Many spiritual...
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I am a servant. (leader)
Confession: Although I have been able to recite to you the correct Sunday school definition of servant-leadership ever since my 7th grade ELCA church youth leader, Amy, drilled it into our heads, I...
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Three tips to instantly improve your church’s graphic design
Over the course of my career I have helped hundreds of churches with their web and graphic design. I have seen all the pitfalls, all the cliches, and all the different ways we boldly declare to the...
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The Flaw in the System
Bible in 90 Days – Day 10 – Numbers 1-8 By illustrators of the 1728 Figures de la Bible, Gerard Hoet (1648–1733) and others, published by P. de Hondt in The Hague in 1728 –...
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The Problem with Conventional Wisdom
Bible in 90 days – Day 11 – Numbers 9-21 Numbers 14:9-10 – Caleb and Joshua to Israel after spying out the promised land: “Do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land… …Then...
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Look and Live
Bible in 90 days – Day 12 – Numbers 21-32 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live. Numbers 21:9 – ESV By Esteban...
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B90X update: Skipping Day 13-15
Day 13 – Numbers 32-36 & Deuteronomy 1-7 No devotional thought for today as I prepare for my reformation day sermon. Day 14 & 15 – Deuteronomy 8-34 Skipping devotional thoughts for Deuteronomy...
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The (actual) promises of God never fail.
Bible in 90 days – Day 16 – Joshua 1-14 Joshua 11:22 ESV “There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel.” By Hult, Adolf, 1869-1943;Augustana synod. [from old catalog] –...
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The promises to Israel, fulfilled
Day 17 – Joshua 15 – Judges 3 “Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.” Joshua 21:45 ESV 1641 map of the wanderings in the...
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Victory through faltering faith
Bible in 90 days – Day 18 – Judges 3-15 Judges 6:15-16 ESV “And [Gideon] said to [the angel] ‘Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my...
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