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  • Some Brief Thoughts on the 2024 Baseball HOF Ballot

    In addition to the hot stove, it’s Hall of Fame season for Baseball. Below are some of my brief thoughts on this year’s Hall of Fame ballot. If you want to track the writers who have actual ballots, check out Ryan Thibodaux’s HOF Vote Tracker. Nice Career, but not a Hall of Famer Each of…

  • Drinking Tea (The Liturgy of the Ordinary)

    This post originally served as a message at Arise Church If you haven’t seen The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, let me highly recommend it to you. The film tells the story of a humdrum employee of Life magazine who loses the photo slotted for the magazine’s final cover and embarks on a whirlwind tour…

  • Calling a Friend (The Liturgy of the Ordinary)

    This post originally served as a message at Arise Church Who enjoys talking on the phone? Not me. I avoid talking on the phone as much as possible. Maybe that’s because of some bad customer service training for a previous job. Maybe it’s because I had some less-than-fun experiences cold calling people in the past.…

  • Sitting in Traffic (The Liturgy of the Ordinary)

    This post originally served as a message at Arise Church If you don’t have kids or haven’t seen Wish Dragon on Netflix, let me fill you in on this scene. A boy named Din meets a dragon who can grant him three wishes, but Din doesn’t know what he wants, and the dragon hasn’t seen…

  • Checking Email (The Liturgy of the Ordinary)

    This post originally served as a message at Arise Church Whether or not you’re an email hoarder, chances are that you have to deal with email—like, a lot of email. Since Ray Tomlinson sent first email in 1971, email has become a pervasive part of our lives. We use email for work, for personal correspondence,…

  • Eating Leftovers (The Liturgy of the Ordinary)

    This post originally served as a message at Arise Church Growing up as the oldest of five kids, we didn’t often have a bunch of food leftover after dinner. But since Hayley and I got married, I’ve learned an important life lesson: leftovers are amazing! They’re incredible! There are just so many possibilities. There’s no…

  • The First Trick or Treat

    Christians rightly observe Christmas and Easter as celebrations of Jesus’ birth and resurrection. And many Christians celebrate the seasons of the church and various holy days. But did you know that Christians invented trick or treat too? Not really. But the worship pastor at our church and I were joking about how–from a certain perspective–the…

  • Brushing Your Teeth (The Liturgy of the Ordinary)

    This post originally served as a message at Arise Church As my grandfather—who just happens to have been a dentist—is fond of saying, “you should never skip brushing your teeth.” Now, can you miss a brushing here or there? Our dentist at Arise, Jeff Ronecker, is on vacation this week, so sure. You’ll be fine…

  • Introducing “Encountering God’s Story”

    I’m pleased to announce that Arise Press has published my book, Encountering God’s Story: A Guide to Better Read and Understand the Story of Scripture (St. Louis, 2023) and copies are now available on Amazon. I started working on this book several years ago after a conversation with some friends about how daunting it is…

  • Making the Bed (The Liturgy of the Ordinary)

    This post originally served as a message at Arise Church In this commencement speech to the 2014 class at the University of Texas, Admiral William McRaven had a simple message: if you want to change the world, start by making your bed. If you make your bed, you accomplish a task, which can lead to…