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Well, it took me awhile, but welcome to the first post of the new year. Things I’m working on: I want to see how two progressions in Paul fit together. 1) Acts 17: God in whom we live, move, and have our being. 2) Romans 5: Suffering which produces endurance, endurance character, character hope. The first points toward …

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I don’t like to wait. And I don’t like being alone. I don’t like not knowing what I’m doing at the moment. I don’t like downtime when I’m alone either. These things make me feel uncomfortable, like I’ve stepped outside of the loop, like I’ve wondered so far away from people and friends that nobody …

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I’m thinking of writing satire. I’m thinking of writing a lot of things really. Maybe I’ll spend some time and actually write. —-Update— I finally got some good writing in on my novel. It felt great, was overly cathartic, and maybe some of it will actually help out in my novel. At the very least …

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Over the weekend I went on a Brooklyn Presbyterian Church-wide retreat. It was nice to get out of the city for awhile. While enjoying a few days of the strange silence that blankets places with fewer cars and even fewer cabs, I got to meet a lot of great people in our sister congregation up …

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I just had a clover and a double espresso from Kaffe 1668. In fact, I’m still sitting here enjoying the effects of the caffeine and the atmosphere of fellow coffee drinkers just finding the moment to relax from their everyday busy lives in Tribeca or wherever they live. Perhaps, like me some of them commuted …

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I just read Jamie Smith’s Thinking in Tongues. I’m still not quite sure who his primary audience was, unless, perhaps it was people like myself. Intellectuals who still have some sort of pentecostal/charismatic identification, even if, perhaps they don’t currently worship at places that would share that identification. Smith identifies several core marks of a pentecostal social …

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So I’ve gotten to a pretty good closing point on chapters 1 and 2 of my new novel Let’s just call it “The Great American Novel.”  Great title right? I still haven’t gotten a good title, but I usually get the title much later in the writing process. It’s a complicated novel about 4 friends …

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Finally a cool Saturday morning. It’s been so long since I last stepped outside for a slow leisurely stroll. This morning was great. Walking in the cool of the morning. It’s no wonder that Genesis talks about walking with God in the cool of the day. It has to be one of the most heavenly …

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