December 2009
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Teaching...sort of...
Today I am enjoying a day at school, a day that involves students until only 11 AM. Pretty simple day all in all. I spent sometime this morning (since classes were only 20 minute) catching up on some of my friends’ blogs. I realized how much I missed seeing what people were thinking, and what they were experiencing. For some strange reason, things that would never come up in a typical...
March 2009
9 posts
Thoughts through a Cold
I have caught a cold that has really thrown off my week. Honestly I feel like each night I am going into battle to see if I can sleep. However the light at the end of the tunnel is coming. I am feeling the best I’ve felt all week long today (Friday)! Which is good…but there’s one catch to it: I have lost my voice. You never appreciate the basics until they’re taken from...
March Madness Predictions: Day 2
Yesterday, I wound up going 13-3. Which is respectful…unless your kid sister goes 16-0. Very humiliating…
Oh well, today is a new day…so on to the predictions!
Stephen F. Austin vs. Syracuse:Any university named after a man with around a 60-ft statue in his honor must be taken seriously. But any team that wins a 6 overtime game earns my respect as well. So Syracuse wins this...
March Madness Predictions: Day 1
So here we go, another year and another time to shoot for perfection. I will be shocked if I don’t get 50 out of the 63 games correct for the whole tournament. I realize I’m human…so I’ll give myself a couple of mistakes. With all this in mind, let’s get started with Round 1, Day 1.
Butler vs. LSU: This game is about athletes versus team chemistry. LSU has the better...
This Generation
I am feeling sort of old today, I’m wearing my new Sperry’s that are accepted by most older guys as cool…and surprisingly as of today accepted by high schoolers as being cool as well. With that in mind, I want to say a quick word about this generation of American high schoolers.
I am afraid for this generation. They seem to be characterized as a generation that has little...
Looking Forward to the Week...
This is shaping up to be one of the more entertaining weeks of 2009. A lot is going on…
1. St. Patrick’s Day: I may not be Irish, but I still think a day where you can pinch people for not wearing clothing with a certain color is a great idea. I think we should have more holidays that follow this tradition. Maybe we should beat people who don’t wear brown on Arbor Day…just...
The Canonicler
I have recently been reading more Dr. Seuss in the evening just to relax and re-appreciate how creative the whole idea was. Now I’m thinking that there needs to be a new one about the Canonicler. The person, or group of persons, that compiled the Hebrew Bible in structure and editorial work and this was to direct the reader of the Hebrew Bible to particular theological understandings. I...
The ESV Study Bible is not Perfect
I have found an error in the ESV Study Bible and now I’m trying to figure out how to let someone know that can actually change this is the coming editions…
I always knew I was pretty sharp, but never in my wildest imaginations did I think I would be able to pinpoint an error in this sucker. Turns out this Bible is not perfect. By Bible I am not talking about the actual text, but the...
February 2009
3 posts
We are still in a War
Watching the news it seems that nearly all of the focus is on the U.S. economy and the stimulus package (or its inability to stimulate if you’re a Republican Congress person on national media), and this is such an important topic to discuss. After all we are about to have signed tomorrow by President Obama the largest economic package in our country’s history. So it deserves great...
Books to Read Every Year
Recently I began reading John Piper’s “Don’t Waste Your Life” book again. I am going to be reading and discussing the book with some of my high school students that have said they want to get serious about what it means to follow Christ. So with this weekly discussion group beginning soon I thought it would be a good idea to re-read the book. I have read the first couple of...
what i hope for...
These were all things that went through my head today that I’m hoping will happen.
1. That people will practice what they claim to believe.
2. That the economy will begin to create those 3-4 million jobs for Americans.
3. That I’ll be even more disciplined in my reading.
4. That American Christians will value Christ more than their comfort.
5. That the New York Mets don’t...
January 2009
8 posts
Thoughts from Watching a Car Chase
Today I was at home with a headache, so I had the TV volume real low…low enough to fall asleep but high enough to still understand what’s being said. Somewhere around 3 PM I heard that a car chase had begun and police were in pursuit…it actually was a U-Haul mover…but whatever. As I watched there were so many things that came to mind:
Thought #1: Surprisingly, U-Haul...
WatchWhy does the everyday, secular person finds Christianity to be a joke? Sometimes I talk to people that are outside the church world and I think they have these crazy misconceptions about the American church. Then I watch the Colbert Report and see a guy that is a Christian pastor saying nothing really valuable, but simply discussing his church’s “sexperiment.” I have no problem...
Why Being a Teacher is Amazing
1. GIVING homework & not having to DO homework
2. Being able to practice your sarcasm on human beings—-it is like a lab to try out anything witty or sarcastic, and occasionally the students inspire new bits of sarcasm that you may not have ever come up with on your own
3. Seeing students stress out about things, all the while you knowing that they are stressing for no reason. This...
The Church
I have talked with many young people over the past two years who are confident that they are Christians and yet they don’t seem to have much care for the Church. They see the Church as being a nice addition to the Christian faith, but not necessary to the faith. This has become a point of real concern for me personally and I worry that we currently have a generation of students, both in...
For such a time as this... →
This was on the CNN ticker and I found it absolutely amazing. If you click on the title you will get to read all about a day of church for President-elect Obama. It sounds a whole lot like the typical church experience for me (please read with sarcasm). Mr. Obama is well-treated to a church service in honor of him. Amazing…
Wii Fit: The Next Frontier
Yesterday I had to go and buy a new toothbrush, and so after accomplishing that necessary task I decided to reward myself by looking through electronics at the store to see if they mis-marked any items ($200 item accidentally marked $20). I went to the aisle that had all their Wii gear and began looking when I saw that their was a Wii Fit just sitting there.
As many people know, the Wii Fit is a...
Back from the World
I have been out in the world, the world without internet for approximately 2 months…but I have made it back to civilization and free time. Seriously, I have been traveling this great nation of ours, but I really have just been lazy about the whole blog thing…oh well…
Since the last time I wrote here are some things that have been on my mind:
1. Airplanes need more leg room: how...
November 2008
11 posts
Words that still hurt...but are probably true
“There was a time when the church was very powerful. It was during that period when the early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Wherever the early Christians entered a town...
Concerning the Blomblog
In regards to Justin Blomgren (http://justincblomgren.blogspot.com/) taking our fight from the world of comments into the much more broad world of actual posts, I suppose that I must be the Abe Lincoln of this situation…
“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who...
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WatchSo why do people continue to think these things about Barack Obama? And why is it that this new generation of evangelicals are more likely to support Obama? Curious to hear your thoughts…
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WatchBill “Papa Bear” O’Reilly on the Daily Show, this is really an entertaining segment. You’ll see 2 major, conflicting views on the world and America’s role within it, what is needed to make the world right, and ultimately what is right. So what do we do when both sides seem to be in such conflict, to the point where they can’t even agree on what is given to Papa...
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50.5 Things to Enjoy in Oklahoma
My friend Adrian Martinez has this thing with numbers, he makes lists on his blog using the number “5.” I thought that was pretty weak personally, at least pick a double digit number! So in honor of Oklahoma’s 101st birthday, here’s a list of 50.5 wonders (1 for every 2 years for all you math buffs out there):
1. Sonic: established in Shawnee, Oklahoma
2. Sunsets: no...
The Purpose
So many people have asked me, “What’s the point of this blog?” Well let me tell you what this is about: Early this very day I was talking with some people, we’ll call them friends, and they were talking about their blogs. I heard them talking about what they talk about on the “blog-o-sphere” and how they read this many or that many blogs per hour and I thought...
