THE SPCSHP //: Archive

“The chief biblical analogy for baptism is not the water that washes but the...”

– William Willimon from Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter (via taidochino)

Feb 24th

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Instructions for Today

If you work in an office at a computer, do the following: Take of your shoes and socks Find a pair of scissors Cut off your slacks at the knees Remove your tie and untuck your shirt Find a piece of paper Write “SEE YOU IN HELL” on the paper Tape the paper to your computer screen Storm out of the office Throw your iPhone in the nearest trash can Sit on a park bench and find a...

Feb 23rd

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50/50: Brothers and Sisters, Lately I have been... →

Read this post from a good buddy of mine on what it means to have a solid community of people around you who love and encourage you. Ben, you may be younger than me, and single, and childless, and basically unemployed, and thereby freewheelin’, but trust me, I’ve learned more from you than you have from me. You are bold, and honest, and fearless, and crushingly humble - remain that...

Feb 23rd

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Feb 23rd

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Feb 22nd

“Daddy, I have joy in my heart because I really love love love love love love...”

– Emma

Feb 21st

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Jesus is alive. He lives in Bermuda. If anyone finds a living Jesus better than Johnny Barnes, I want to know about it.

Feb 19th

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Feb 9th

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Here's the Trouble, But the Trouble is Liberating....

Being a Christian who pursues the Lord as an ongoing theme of life brings with it some difficult obstacles. Pretty quickly, you’ll come to the end of yourself and one of two things will happen: You’ll stop. You’ll continue. Coming to the end of yourself means you’ve extended yourself in your pursuit of God as far as you ever have before. In high school, this point was a...

Feb 8th

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Feb 8th

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SIX More Books. I'm on a Roll.

I read a few new books, and I added one at the beginning that I had originally left out. 1. Maus, by Art Spiegelman is a two volume graphic novel (biography) about the author/illustrator’s father’s experience as a Jew in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It is incredible. I didn’t originally include it in this list because it is a graphic novel, but the books were...

Feb 6th

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Jan 31st

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Jan 31st

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The Ultimate Campmobile Man Project

So I was talking with my Dad the other day about building out a bed and gear storage in my truck bed for camping and I couldn’t stop thinking about it - so I did it. Here’s what I did: 1. Start // Here’s the truck bed when I got started. Empty and boring. 2. Frame // I built a simple frame that slides easily in and out (in case I ever need to take it out to haul stuff). The...

Jan 29th

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Jan 25th

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These are the guys behind The Van. My wife and I support their mission monthly. You should too. Think about that 6 year old kid, man.

Jan 24th

Jan 18th

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Jan 9th

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Dec 18th

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Dec 17th

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Dec 9th

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Dec 4th

“Daddy, I love you because you’re a cute little daddy.”

– Emma (AKA Thing One)

Nov 29th

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This is incredible.

Nov 28th

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Nov 14th

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Nov 11th

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You Know What's So Crazy About God?

He uses you as a pawn as well as a rook and a bishop and a queen in the game of chess that you’re playing both as the person moving the pieces and as each piece itself. Sometimes you die. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you just get captured for awhile until the next pawn can manage to make that treacherous journey across the board to draw you back out of the pit. The situations...

Nov 7th

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Nov 3rd

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The Third Anniversary of My Freedom

Exactly three years ago today, I got fired from BCC. On November 3rd, 2008, I walked into my office, got my coffee as usual, and turned on my computer. It was Monday morning, the Monday after Halloween, so everyone was in a pretty good mood, ready to tell funny stories from the parties they went to. Who had the best costume, who got the most drunk, who looked like a total idiot, all that fun...

Nov 3rd

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Nov 3rd

Here's What I Think

And I hesitate to say this sometimes because I don’t want to upset anyone or give anyone a reason to try to argue me out of something. I always welcome different ideas - but its when people feel the need to make me conform to their ideas that I start to get suspicious. We don’t need to think like each other, we just need to think clearly. So I feel like I need to write this down and...

Oct 29th