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December 2012

December 31, 2012
Since it's the last day of 2012, I have to cover three months in this...
December 30, 2012
August and September were busy months for my blog. There was the Chik-Fil-A drama and...
December 29, 2012
***Spoiler alert: this post presumes that you know the storyline of Les Miz.*** After watching...
December 29, 2012
In June and July, I wrote about my family reunion, the culture wars, a whole...
December 28, 2012
I wrote some songs this past year and posted recordings of some of the songs...
December 27, 2012
In March, I fasted from blogging for Lent. April and May of 2012 were dominated...
December 26, 2012
I wasn't going to blog this week and instead re-post old blogs from each of...
December 26, 2012
I figured I would end 2012 by reviewing a selection of my posts from throughout...
December 25, 2012
God's not allowed to be a baby. That was the thought that scandalized 5th century...
December 24, 2012
In Matthew 1:21, Gabriel says to Mary, ""You are to give him the name Jesus,...
December 23, 2012
I decided to do something different for my LifeSign sermon this weekend. Normally for Christmas,...
December 22, 2012
Eastern Orthodox priest Father Thomas Hopko has a featured podcast on Ancient Faith Radio that...
December 21, 2012
When I read something in the Bible and I think I shouldn't say anything about...
December 21, 2012
Well today is the last day on the ancient Mayan calendar, so I expect there...
December 20, 2012
I had a disturbing conversation this week with a friend who has a child who's...
December 19, 2012
I just stumbled across something in my sermon preparation that made me do a double-take...
December 19, 2012
Psalm 52:3 blew my mind yesterday as I was reading it in the Chapel of...
December 18, 2012
A recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute has some very interesting statistics on...
December 18, 2012
The 2005 film "Thank You for Smoking" is about a tobacco PR executive who wins...
December 17, 2012
This weekend, I preached on Mary's Magnificat (audio, Luke 1:46-55) at our church in the...
December 17, 2012
This photo has been circulating in response to the Connecticut shooting. I don't disagree that...
December 16, 2012
When we admit that mental illness has been a factor in many of the mass...
December 16, 2012
It's always interesting when someone else says something that you've said exactly the way you...
December 15, 2012
Whoever made this t-shirt doesn't fear God. Why? Because it blasphemes God's name when we...
December 14, 2012
I just found out that a kid I love a lot who's a very smart...
December 13, 2012
This is going to be a short one. I just want to make an appeal...
December 13, 2012
There are certain rhetorical moves that evangelicals make in their arguments to "out-pious" their interlocutors....
December 12, 2012
Original sin. There are few Christian doctrines that cause more scandal for people living today....
December 10, 2012
Those of you who have been following my journey know that I keep on stumbling...
December 10, 2012
One of the theories Doug Campbell advances in The Deliverance of God is that the...
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