Today we’re leaving camp and heading home. It has been an awesome week spending time with students and seeing God work in their lives. I’ve spent a lot of weeks at a lot of different camps, though. I’ve seen God work in students’ lives, I’ve seen students make commitments and I’ve seen those commitments fadeRead more
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Yesterday I had one of my most eventful days of summer camp ever. One of our students fractured a bone and I spent a good portion of the day at the hospital. We went to a children’s hospital which is much better than a normal hospital. There were stickers all over the walls and televisionsRead more
Sometimes I doubt my faith. Nothing significant causes the doubt, I just wonder if I’ve committed myself to nothing more than a story created by humans to make life easier. Karl Marx’s statement that religion is an opiate for the masses gives me pause and creates a little room for doubt in my brain. IRead more
This week I’m at summer camp and it is providing a lot of material for this blog. Our speaker seems to be a little nerdy and he let his nerd flag fly a during one of his talks. He put up pictures of two fictional villains and had the audience cheer for who they thoughtRead more
This week I am at summer camp with our high school group. I love summer camp. Even though I’m sleeping in a room that smells like a boys’ locker room, camp is one of my favorite weeks out of the year. I’ve already written about how summer camp can be difficult for nerds, so hereRead more
I finally saw Green Lantern and I wasn’t that impressed. The action sequences were rather short and the space in between them wasn’t that interesting. Ryan Reynolds did a great job of portraying Hal Jordan as a tremendously self-centered jerk. He was so convincing, in fact, that Hal Jordan was hardly likeable. If I wereRead more