Christopher Hopper's Blog, page 16

Reading Small, Thinking Big

Reading a novel on an iPhone is ludicrous. Or so I thought. Until I had a revelation. The same kind of revelation I had when choosing between two physically-large books for a flight, because taking both was simply too much for my carry on. So I put the Kindle app on my iPad and took […]

The Mischievous Bright Side

Right now I’m looking at a framed picture of Judah, my 4-year-old, which sits on my nightstand. He’s standing shirtless in front of a well-loved family pond in western NY, with his pants around his knees. He’s peeing. In public. And it’s priceless. Then my sister-in-law sends me a picture of Judah riding through a […]

God Is Logical

There’s an underlying assumption in modern academia which precludes discussion about the existence of God or faith’s role in science that divine invention or interjection is, as Spock would put it, illogical. Intellectual Christians are growing louder—perhaps because they’ve grown weary of their ideology being thrown under the bus, and perhaps because technology has given […]

My Latest Encounter with My Wonderful Jehovah’s Witnesses

I saw them talking to my neighbor as I drove by, and knew they’d be coming for me next. No, not the mafia. And not the IRS. Jehovah’s Witnesses. Sure enough, an hour in to staining my deck, their sedan pulled in my driveway. “Looking sharp,” I said to the twenty-something man stepping out of […]

Why Limits Provoke Success

Have you ever walked into a room that needed to be cleaned so badly that when you looked at it, you just stood there and couldn’t move? The task was that daunting. I’ve found the same emotion when presented with a “limitless canvas.” As creators , the infinite world of possibilities is what we all […]

Cherished Promo (VIDEO)

Had so much fun working on this short. Always fun getting to film my wife and daughter too. Enjoy! ch: Cherished Women’s Conference from New Life Christian Church on Vimeo.