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Working Out as Worship???
Back in the day, I would slide a DVD into my laptop and play “30 Day Shred” — a workout video from the well-known TV fitness coach Jillian Michaels.
Jillian promised that 30 days of exercising with her and I would be “shredded.”
And so I huffed and puffed and grunted and groaned my way through jumping ...
Facing Rejection? You’re In Excellent Company
Setting out the yellow signboard that said, ‘Wet Floor,’ I sloshed my mop between the tables of the café.
Only one table was occupied. A group of about six or seven sat around it sharing bags of chips and bursts of conversation.
I knew all of them. They were my classmates from my graduate program in journalism ...
Not Just A Sunday School Lesson
You know one of the topics we don’t talk about too often in our churches?
Our relationship with our parents when we’re adults.
Somehow, we’ve decided that it’s a topic relevant only for Sunday School/ Children’s Church—but not really beyond that.
Maybe we feel like we’ve outgrown it. Maybe we’ve dismissed it because it dredges up painful memories ...
Why I Needed to Unlearn My Favorite Bible Verse
Back in 2001, while I chugged through heavy coursework at graduate school in Upstate New York, I had one thing on my mind. I would like to tell you that it was assignments or making good grades because, after all, I had crossed continents and traveled across the seas to America for the first time ...
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