...so I haven't written in about a year and a half. So sue me. For the sake of brevity, I will simply say that the 2007 calendar year was the worst of my life. Much of it was a fiery trial, and there were times I thought I would not make it. But...the Lord prevails. Faith was shaken, but not finally destroyed. Blessed be the Name of the Lord, and I ( Read more... )

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So, the other night I had a dream. In it, I was working in a high rise in New York and as the work day drew to a close, I looked out the window and saw smoke billowing from various skyscrapers in the distance and was able to see flames rising from one of the closer buildings. In the dream I had that sort of dream omniscience that informed me that ( Read more... )

It’s fairly rare that I find a movie that exceeds or maybe even meets my expectations. They always fall short on some point or another, particularly those movies that represent something from my childhood or past. The Lord of the Rings of recent years presents an effeminate and whiny Frodo Baggins amongst many other shortcomings. Lucas loses sight ( Read more... )

We went to the Georgia Aquarium (supposedly the largest in the world) on Monday and I had a startling revelation: that place and  the entire touristy theme park like industry are really a chance for you to pay money to live in a communist police state for a day.  It's incredibly difficult to get in there begin with. The borders are closed and you ( Read more... )

So today was the day that I have long awaited. A day when questions were answered and uncertainty was put to rest. It was the day when I found out that the girl that most especially caught my attention…was dating another guy. It wasn’t a huge surprise. A moderately observant person could see it in the way they interacted… and when you have feelings ( Read more... )

This week has been exceptionally tough. I feel like I'm at a breaking point and what I desire most is to receive comfort from the Lord and delight in His prescence again. Through the week, I have know moments of comfort where He visited with me, but the default state seems to be sadness bordering on despair. Come quickly Oh Lord! Be merciful to me ( Read more... )

This post is the response I wrote to an online posting that can be found here.

A friend asked what I thought about this, so here goes: I can honestly say that the Da Vinci Code fills me with rage in a way that few things do. Much of my life, I had very little concept of blasphemy, beyond the idea of taking the Lord's Name in vain. The word was ( Read more... )

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