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By my reckoning, it has been a year and a half since I’ve written a post here. A year and a half. Holy cow. So where have I been?

Well, obviously not here. But while I may have left my blog and my website go fallow, there’s a couple of reasons why.

For starters, life has kicked me pretty hard as of late. A year and a half ago, the senior pastor of the congregation I serve took a new position at a di

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“[T]hey led us through a fifteen-minute set of what I called "seven-eleven" songs. Sing seven words, and repeat the phrase eleven times.”
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“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
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