The Random Musings of a Nerdy Christ Follower

Earlier today I saw an email from Mission of Hope: Haiti, that was in response to an article from the New York Times, entitled. “‘There Is No Hope’: Crisis Pushes Haiti to Brink of Collapse.” I read their well thought out and beautiful response before reading the article. With tears in my eyes and a […]

“What if God was one of us?”   Remember this song from the 90s that posed this very philosophical and controversial question? The song lyrics speak of God as being a “slob like one of us.” Christians hear the word “slob” and immediately think of it as derogatory toward God. And who can blame them? […]

It occured to me today that I did say I would provide a follow up to my first post. You know, the “The Dallas Stars are the greatest team in hockey. I love the Stars. ALL other teams suck and can die.” post. Okay, maybe it wasn’t quite like that…but I did warn you that […]

Well, if you know anything about me, you know I’m passionate about writing about three things: My faith, film and hockey. It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned my favorite pastime in my blog, and as the season is less than a month away, I figured it was high time I expressed my thoughts about […]

    ANAWIM I recently learned the origin behind this word from a message given in my church’s Anchor–20s and 30s–network. Throughout its history, the nation of Israel has been besieged and enslaved by civilization after civilization. One of those was the nation of Assyria. When Assyria defeated Israel, they took the Israelites as slaves. […]

“Don’t should on yourself.” This is a phrase I’ve heard many times over the last year. Jeremy, one of our mentors during the Leadership Development Progam (LDP) internship I and six others embarked on through our church, used this phrase throughout our time together as a Life Group, and any many other settings. During the […]

This evening, while I was trying to catch up on the Systematic Theology reading I completely forgot about (due Wednesday…YAY! *face palm*) I took a mental break and decided to peruse Instagram. I’ve posted images with Bible verses on them for a few years now, to try to bring a little positivity to the increasingly […]

I’m a little late in getting to this, but I wanted to put some of my thoughts on the beauty I saw and heard going through this weekend; this holiest of weekends. This may be a little all over the place, so bear with me. So where to begin? Maybe the beginning…… Last week started […]

Recently I was reading a chapter on Angels in my Systematic Theology book when the author, Wayne Grudem, talked about guardian angels. He brought up whether or not we each have our own guardian angel. He mentioned that it’s more likely that we don’t each have a singular angel guarding us. What do you think […]

Well hello there! Since my last post was all the way back in November, I wanted to take a little time to throw up an update post. This will also (hopefully) serve as an update on my journey into the Leadership Development Program (LDP) I entered at my home church, Gateway Community, back in September. […]