January 2012
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Dance Duet →
Between the music with the Claire De Lune samples, the evocative choreography, or the spot-on cinematography and editing, this video makes me want to create something.
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Should You Quit Your Band? →
Humorous flowchart to help you decide whether or not you should quit your job.
December 2011
4 posts
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Happy Birthday, Frank
I keep re-listening to this episode of This American Life about Frank Sinatra.
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Hyphen, Em Dash, and Dash →
For you grammar geeks
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It’s not that I don’t like Christmas...
November 2011
2 posts
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Yelping with Cormac McCarthy →
Yelp reviews as written in the prose style of Cormac McCarthy
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October 2011
10 posts
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One of the Reasons Why I Like Dave the Economist
I tell him I’m feeling melancholy and make a fleeting reference about my humors being out of balance. He tells me I should do some bloodletting.
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A Guide to Female Characters in the Movies →
Are these archetypes? Tropes? Stock characters? Is this the humorous take on female characters by Mindy Kaling (Kelly Kapoor on The Office)?
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What Occupy Wall Street Protesters Want →
Planet Money thinks they know what the Occupy Wall Street protesters want.
Not the main point, but when you listen to the audio of the “General Assembly” that the protesters hold every night, you’ll find it as eerie as it is practical.
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Sturm and Drang →
a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and musictaking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s, in which individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements.
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Worship Postures →
Different body postures communicate different things during prayer. Ken Collins gives you a survey with biblical references.
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Resting in Ourselves, Not in God →
The reason we lose our focus on God is because we have what we want and don’t feel the sharp pains of immediate need.
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There’s a long practice of praying the...
September 2011
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Kid-Friendly Worship Songs That Won't Drive You... →
Worship songs for kids (with an Americana/roots feel) that are actually listenable for adults. The lyrics are straight from Scripture, which means effortless memorization. Sometimes the references are embedded right into the lyrics.
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Top 5 Personal Ways I Know America Is Becoming...
When there’s a Filipino on TV, my family doesn’t call one another saying, “There’s Pilipino on the tee-bee!”
There are commercials on TV with biracial couples where a white woman is with a non-white man.
I can find Filipino soy sauce at my local grocery store.
The chances someone asks if I’m Mexican has gone down to 50/50.
It’s been more than seven years...
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You're My Best Girl... And So Are You
Awhile ago Mateo told his mom, "You're my best girl." I knew I would need to talk to him later to clarify something. I thought this conversation was years away.
Dad: Who's your best girl, Mateo?
Mateo: Mom.
Dad: Um, who else is your best girl?
Mateo: And Teacher Brianna. She's my best girl too.
Dad: Okay, Mateo. You're only allowed to have two best girls. And one of them is always your mom, okay?
Mateo: Okay.
August 2011
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You Know We'll Have a Good Time Then
Gabriel: Daddy, would you play swords with me?
Me: Aw, man. I can't right now. I have work to do in the yard.
[cue song, "Cat's in the Cradle"]
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Why Can't You Talk?
That’s what my son, Mateo, asked the woman, loud enough for everyone in the restaurant to hear—everyone, that is, except for the woman he was talking to because that woman was deaf.
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Portrait of You as the Good Samaritan →
I’ve posted this before, but we just heard the parable recently at Coram Deo Christian Church. So I had to post it again. This is just a detail of the larger painting.
Can you find the Good Samaritan in the painting?
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July 2011
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I have a friend, Todd South, who sometimes posts interesting things on Facebook that reflect his political and (non-)religious point of view. I make an occasional comment, but I keep most of my thoughts to myself because—really, is Facebook the place I want to have discussions about religion and politics? Once, I foolishly posted about something both political and religious awhile back. I...
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Who is the gospel for: believers or unbelievers? And what good is it to them?
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Top 5 Responses a Pregnant Woman Should Have Ready
“I’m not pregnant!”
She interrupts the comment with a hard contraction, saying, “It’s okay, they’re still fifteen minutes apart.”
“It’s either a girl or a tapeworm. Either way, we’re naming it Emmalissabella.”
“My husband is a little anxious; we’re not sure if the baby is mine.”
“This will be number three, a...
June 2011
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I plan to love my daughter so much that I will ruin her for any other man. Any more advice for raising daughters?
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Daughters Are Different
My first daughter will be born in July. I already have two boys. What is your advice for raising girls?
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“Till to Jesus’ work you cling
By a simple faith,
“Doing” is a...”
– It Is Finished – Ira Procter
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Just Like Dad?
Me: I prayed for our sons this morning.
Kenny: What did you pray?
Me: That they would be better men than us.
Kenny: That doesn't sound too hard. Maybe you should raise the bar a little.
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I Did Not Hack the Gibson
Twice in the last month I was telling someone one of my duties at Coram Deo is to oversee and maintain the website. Both times I described myself as a hack and both times they reacted impressed (or mock impressed). I think they thought I said I was a hacker.
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King’s Kaleidoscope - Before The Throne...
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3 Things I Forgot to Say Sunday Morning
or, Things I Want to Be Sure Were Clear from the Prodigal Son Sermon
the father’s prodigal love
The father was wastefully extravagant with his love—and the older brother despised him for it.
freedom
Searching among not-God (stuff, people, or your own abilities) to fill your longing for home (happiness, security, fulfillment, freedom) means you have to preserve those things at all costs....
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What Decade Am I In?
I saw a woman—under 30—at the donut shop. She was wearing Sasson jeans. And before you ask: no, she was not also drinking Tab while listening to her Walkman.
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Can't Fool Me
My wife and I have a secret way to hold hands. So, if she gets replaced by a robot or an alien or faerie, I’ll know.
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Preaching Christ from the OT
Strategies on preaching Christ from the Old Testament. Our faith is centered on Jesus, one could argue every sermon should be about him, but how do you preach the gospel from Old Testament passages that don’t explicitly talk about the Messiah? There are a few lists of strategies; the last list is the most user-friendly of the bunch.
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How I Know It's Summer
I’m listening to the number one summer jan, which is… what?
What’s your go-to summer jam? It doesn’t even have to mention summer.
May 2011
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Rescue
When I’m weak, He is strong. And when I am very weak, He is very, very strong.
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“I choose the awful agony of Christ
to charge my senseless sorrows with meaning...”
– Seton Shrine - I Choose to Breathe the Breath of Christ
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Pig Sty Tenant
Sometimes I picture myself in the pig sty, knowing it’d be better to be a servant in my father’s house than to be in the muck. And Jesus is there, embracing my filthy, mud-covered body, telling me that he can take me home.
April 2011
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Room for Cream?
Barista: How are you doing?
Me: So good.
Barista: Because you won the Easter egg hunt?
Me: Nope.
Barista: I won the hunt. I was pushing those kids out of my way. It wasn't much of a contest.
January 2011
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Fight Science: Ultimate Soldiers →
This show tested the limits of soldiers and sailors. These guys are so well trained and conditioned, I want to weep with pride for our military.
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Music Lessons | This American Life →
You need to listen to Anne Lamott in the third act.