Every time the Olympics are on I start thinking about Cool Runnings. Cool Runnings is one of my favorite movies of all time. If you haven’t ever seen it (and I really think you should), the movie is about the first Jamaican bobsled team in 1988. Three of the men on the team are Jamaican qualifying sprinters who don’t make…
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I have been on the outskirts of several outreaches where churches banned certain music, discredited our current movie culture, or burned books. And I while I understand it entirely, I also find it impossible to live by. I think the main goal of each of these movements was to take something that was a clear idol in the culture and try to get Christians not fall under that same spell by avoiding it completely. In actuality, it just makes me unaware of the problems in the culture I live in, pushing away the glimpses of beauty and promise that are there, and avoiding the very people I was meant to serve and love.
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I remember one patient livid at me- exclaiming in spite of the awful pain she was having in her knee, there was no way she could take a break from running 25 miles every day! I just looked back at her in exasperation, not knowing what else to say. If our bodies are experts at breaking down the old, resting, and then rebuilding, why aren’t we?
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Hallelujah should not be a forced manipulation that tricks you into pretending- it’s a wholehearted surrender to trusting someone other than yourself. And where the song meets Christmas is in realizing that this is where Jesus’ very life began.
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Hello. Can you hear me? Can you hear me now? This Grammy award winning song by Adele has had monstrous success- and amazingly has been the source of more skits, covers, articles, and parodies then seemingly possible. Obviously, it’s a very catchy song. A friend remarked to me that Adele said the song was actually about her own self-discovery, not about a relationship. I…
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I am sure many feel my blog is very strange. I’m not totally sure I always get it myself to be perfectly honest with you, but let me try to explain why I do it. I look at music, and movies, and the marketplace and I try to see more than what is being obviously stated. I try to see in between the…
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I confess my weakness, still you pick up parts that are broken. Pour out your perfection on me now. Because I’m hollow.
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I saw a magnet one day that said, “Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff.” And it would be really nice if that was true. But working in medicine I know for sure that it’s not.
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