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Apparently the bacteria from my head was transmitted to my blog as it fell ill as well. A few days ago, it just disappeared for some unknown reason. I think I have given it the appropriate dose of Internet-antibiotics and it, like me,
is on the road to recovery. However, according to [...]

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Ok, I don’t know exactly who this author is, but they are my new best friend!
I came across this excellent post a while back, and now this one from which I offer just a few poignant lines.
The reason the church must be sectarian is not because the world is too big, too dirty, or too [...]

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I haven’t mentioned this in quite a while, and since I know that I have quite a few new readers, I figured it might be a good time for a helpful reminder that to make your life easier, it’s possible to subscribe to my blog via email. That way, you don’t have to remember [...]

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Besides being a gratuitous reference to Dupree’s Self-Help spiel in “You, Me and Dupree,” it’s the best title I could come up with for a post full of randomness and fun linkages. You’ve been warned, no coherency is to be found here!
Listen to this song, it’s awesome.

I hurt my knee last week and it is [...]

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OK, so I realize this really isn’t a big deal, but I just wanted to point out that I took the time today to change the stock photograph in the header of my blog to a picture I took downtown on Beale St. in Memphis. The picture isn’t all that amazing, but I did [...]

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A full half year ago, I caught this over on my buddy Todd’s blog - 10 Ideas for living Missionally in the Suburbs (by Chris Smith) and have been meaning to blog about it ever since.  I now have 2 great reasons to finally do so.
First, I find myself smack dab in the middle of [...]

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Apparently Eric thinks I have nothing better to do (he may be right ;), so he tagged me for a random meme (some kind of list of questions that you saw somewhere else and you decided to answer. Then someone else sees them and does them and so on and so on).
Here are the rules:

Pick [...]

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A friend posted this quote this morning and it got me thinking…

Prophets yell because their hearts are on fire.  They scream at the world trying to wake us up.  They can’t help it  After all, God is in their throats.
Steven James
Having felt something of a prophetic bent in the way God has wired/gifted me, I [...]

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Do yourself a favor and check out Brian McLaren’s brief post on the Kingdom of God over at pomomusings.com.

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Perhaps unbeknownst to the 67! of you who read this blog through a feed reader, I decided to switch my theme up the other day.  Cleaker by Adam Cleaveland has been good to me and I recommend the theme to you, but I was feeling the need for a fresh look.
There’s still 2 sidebars and [...]

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