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I love working with high school students. I love helping usher them into adulthood. I love pointing them towards Jesus. I love playing video games and Magic: The Gathering with them. I don’t love seeing them graduate, though. After spending so many years with them, it’s sad to see them go. There’s also a lotRead more

Everyone loves a good coming of age story. For those of us who are adults, when we watch Kevin Arnold in The Wonder Years or read about Harry’s path in J.K. Rowling’s series, we can’t help but identify with their struggles. The path to adulthood isn’t straight and it’s nice to know everyone else facedRead more

I spent my day yesterday celebrating Easter. The day started by spending the morning at church, celebrating the resurrection with six services. Then Alycia and I spent the afternoon and evening celebrating with our families. I love Easter. Easter points us to the reality that everything changed when Jesus rose from the grave. The universeRead more

Today is Good Friday. The day Christians reflect upon Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross. It’s not as joyous and celebrative as Easter Sunday but it’s important. Without Good Friday there would be nothing to celebrate come Easter Sunday. Every great movie series has its own Good Friday movie. Star Wars has The Empire Strikes Back,Read more

I love eating. I wake up every morning looking forward to breakfast, even though my breakfast is usually just a piece of toast with peanut butter and jelly. I love eating my lunch at work. I try to hold out as long as I can to make eating my lunch that much more enjoyable. OneRead more

I was calling people Benedict Arnold before I even knew who Benedict Arnold was. I didn’t need to know what Benedict Arnold did; I just knew that he was a traitor. Nobody wants to be a traitor. We value loyalty in our friends and we want to be loyal to our friends. We shake ourRead more