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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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
As I write this my wife is playing Little Big Planet of her own accord. She’s awesome and has definitely spent more time with a controller in her hand this week than I have. I haven’t played video games much this week because my friend accidentally took my copy of Dragon Age: Origins 2 andRead more
I’ve never been that good at praying. I see the value in spending time before God in prayer but it has never been my forte. Spending time in God’s word has always been the most fruitful spiritual discipline for me. I love God’s word and reading it has even moved me to tears. When itRead more
A lot of my friends growing up were nerds. I had a friend in the 8th grade who wore his Starfleet uniform shirt for his class picture, complete with comm badge and captain’s rank insignia. Obviously, for the rest of that year, he was known as “Star Trek guy”, which didn’t seem to bother himRead more
Nerds are known for their encyclopedic knowledge of useless information. For instance, I can identify almost any Star Trek: The Next Generation episode by name within 30 seconds. I’m a little worse with seasons one, six and seven, but I pretty much bat a thousand with seasons two through five. That’s pretty much useless knowledge,Read more