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Greg always says that when you travel overseas you need to shave your head (he says it’s so you don’t have to worry about your hair getting knappy, but I think it’s just to look cool

So, Kristy, Nance, and I had a farewell party to my hair…

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I have been spared power point fluff for the most part during my life. In college I only had a few teachers who used it (and it was mildly helpful in those classes since the teacher talked a mile a minute). However, having experienced several corporate power point presentations now, I can understand [...]

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Off to Costa Rica in two days! It’s our first trip out of the country since being married, and Nance’s first trip ever out of the country. Definitely a bit nervous (parents won’t be there to take care of the details or do the haggling!), but it should be great.

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I led a discussion this past weekend at a singles retreat (I know, I know, I’m married. Steve said we could be the token married couple) on the parable of the prodigal son (Lk. 15:11-31). I felt very post-modernish about the whole thing. I tried to integrate some of the ideas I [...]

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When Martin Luther inaugurated those 16th century church reforms, he did not envision how far some reformers would go. The Radical Reformation (i.e. the so-called “Anabaptist” movement) took what Luther started and called the Protestants to further reforms based on their vision of the primitive church described in the New Testament. They took the Scriptures [...]

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It’s important that I love myself. Sound like a blurb from a self-help book? Or the mantra of pop-psychology? Certainly not the topic of a sermon in an evangelical church. Why do Christians, and especially evangelicals, react so strongly against the need to love oneself? The idea is met with [...]

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