Fridays Are For One Question

One of the things I love about our church is the music. There’s alot of old music – mainly reworked hymns. I appreciate that for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that music teaches you stuff whether you recognize it or not. And hymns have great, concise theology that gets into [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

I have had the privilege of spending the last day in Atlanta with the crew for Passion 2010. Yesterday afternoon, we spent a good chunk of time in Phillips Arena, the main venue for the conference. We sat in the empty arena, where the Atlanta Hawks play, and it was staggering to think that some [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

I’ve spent a good deal of time traveling this fall. The time I’ve recently spent in airports has taught me one thing above all else:
Cinnabon puts an addictive chemical in their rolls that draws weary travelers like moths to a flame.
Therefore, I ask you this week’s question:
“Is there anything that smells better than Cinnabon in [...]

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Friday’s Are For One Question

Today is October 30. Tomorrow is the anniversary of when Martin Luther got nasty. On October 31, 1517, Luther nailed a document to the door of Castle Church in  Wittenberg, Germany. The document contained 95 theses that were essentially Luther’s critique of the church in his day. That document went on to spark the Protestant [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

This past week I stood and listened to my son having an in depth and serious conversation with two of his buddies.
The subject? Star Wars.
It was surreal to think about that I had this same conversation 20 years ago regarding the exact same thing with my friends. Star Wars, love it or hate it, is [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

Here we are in October, the month which, at least in my opinion, is the epicenter of the sports universe. You’ve got the baseball postseason virtually every night, the middle of the college football season, and the NFL all in full swing. It’s a great month, only missing March Madness. But I digress.
October always provides [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

The light-blogging week here at Forward Progress is due to a week spent in California. Our family was able to go to Legoland – an amusement park themed around Legos. Joshua loved it.
There was the 7 foot tall Lego Darth Vader. Also a life-size Lego Indiana Jones. And a scale model of New York City. [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

I live in an older house. We moved there on purpose with dreams dancing in my head about fixing up certain parts of it. Here’s the problem – my ineptitude with household tasks. I have trouble turning on a plunger, hammering in a light bulb, or snaking an electrical box (did I get that right?). [...]

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Friday’s Are For One Question

If I start thinking about the people who have dramatically influenced my life, probably only half of the people on that list I have actually met. Some were dead years before I was born, but their writing, ideas, policies, or commitments have taken hold inside me and shaped me into the person I’m still becoming.
So [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

I have taken to using a sharpie to write quotes on my desk, things that I want to remember almost on a daily basis. Here’s a few examples of what I see as I look over at the desk:
“We try to be too reasonable about what we believe. What I believe is not reasonable at [...]

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