Year 2011

These Pretzels…

It’s one of my favorite episodes of Seinfeld. Every time I hear someone say something with the same cadence of “these pretzels are making me thirsty,” I get it stuck in my head for days. Recently I gave in to…

A heart like mine

Miranda Lambert has a hit song on the country charts right now called A Heart Like Mine. It’s an excellent example of spiritual rationalization and selfishness. Here are the lyrics (I’ve included a video link below): I ain’t the kind…

From bin Laden to baptism

It’s been an eventful week… On Sunday night, May 1, 2011, President Barrack Obama announced to the nation and world what social media had begun to viralize as news just hours before – that Usama bin Laden was dead. As…

Review: Wrestling Prayer

Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God by Eric Ludy   Christians struggle to know God because they live prayerless lives. They fail in representing His heart to the nations because they have failed in this critical area of relationship.…

Hearing what you want to hear

We have selective auditory capacity. We literally choose to hear only what we want to hear. It works visually as well. Proof positive? I can call my kids to come do a chore, and they claim (after I storm into…

Life-force sucking

It’s no fun to be around negative people. It’s a wonder that what they so easily perceive as faults in others cannot be self-understood in themselves. I was referring to the types of conversations that these folks seem to generate…