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Inaccessible Data

I bet you can’t answer all 5 of these questions.* 1. Who was your first crush? 2. What type of cake did you have at your third birthday? 3. Where did you go for your first sleepover? 4. Who was

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Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen shines like a flame through the ages.* She was a woman of her time, speaking to the broken Church, rebuking the sin and encouraging the faithful– and still her words ring true almost nine centuries later. She

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Who Feeds You?

Who do you trust? Who do you follow? To what extent do devotionals, news articles, or encyclopedia entries speak absolute truth? I’ll give you the background of my question. As I was preparing some lessons for our Sunday morning Children’s

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Seeing the Truth

Well, I never thought I would be writing about a dress. But here we are. 2015. No pizza hydrators, but online debates about the color of a dress. #Winning In case you missed the drama, a photo of a dress

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Embarrassing Photos

“If we let it, humiliation can lead to humility.” — Jon Weece A few days ago, a few of my friends had a “Like” war on Facebook. And it was beautiful. It started with Scott, the director of worship arts

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Memories & Objects

Over the years, we’ve had computers, external hard drives, flash drives, thumb drives, CDs, DVDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, Mini-CDs, memory cards, SD cards, MicroSD cards, 3.5 Floppy Disks, Floppy Disks, and more… and now, of course, we have “The Cloud”– or

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Traveling Companions

It’s Amazing It’s amazing what a difference some time with friends and just a little sleep can make. I am realizing for the millionth time that I need people. I can’t do this alone. I know this to be true,

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In Christ You Are…

I have a vision for next year. I honestly want to launch this right now, but there’s this little thing called school– plus work and church and friends and family and home and… Anyway… 2014 January 2014  Get ready. (This

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Truth Window

Utterly fascinating. A Truth Window. “A truth window (or truth wall) is an opening in a wall surface, created to reveal the layers or components within the wall.” Taken from http://goo.gl/R6stCQ  “In a straw bale house, a truth window is often used to show the walls are

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Simple Worship Elements

A while back, I served as the Summer Intern at Cypress Bible Church. Part of my work there that summer was to develop a worship experience during our summer Beach Week. During the worship times, led by the impeccable Tom

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Balance In Between

If you know me well, you will know that there’s a word, a key element of life, that I uphold and value and pursue (or at least attempt to pursue) in all my pursuits: balance. Now I’m no dancer nor

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Broken

You must remember. I must remember. The reason we all need grace, from God, from others, from ourselves, is because we are all broken. I’m just a well dressed wreck / I’m just a made up mess Working hard trying to

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The Mystery

One of my favorite creators today is JJ Abrams, for a number of reasons. Yes, he had a strong hand in the formation of some of my favorite TV shows ever– Alias, Fringe, LOST.  Yes, he is becoming a household

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