The lights dim. The honeymoon romance is hot. Jimmy is a Christian stud, one in a million guy. Jenny is gorgeous, every hair perfectly in place, a smile always on her face, the kind of girl every guy wants. Everyone sighs. Why can’t we all have love like this? This is how it was meant […]
Why You Have to Be Gangsta to Make People Respect Your Words
Most people don’t care what you have to say. They hear advice all day, and your words are just chirping in the background of a world they’ve long tuned out. That’s why you need to do something bold, something unpredictable to get their attention. In the Godfather: Part 2, young Vito Corleone, played by Robert Dinero, shuffles […]
Touchy Tuesday: Christians, God Didn’t Metaphorically Create You
(Touchy Tuesdays — we’re going through controversial, difficult passages in the Bible once a week to get deeper in the Word for all you Bible lovers.) Christians, God Didn’t Metaphorically Create You Genesis 1-2.3 There’s nothing cooler to modern thinkers than the idea of being metaphorically created. In one grand, cosmic lougie, God hawked up the spiritual ambiguity […]
Woman of God, Will You Lead the Church?
The night is darkest before the dawn. This is a universal metaphor for hope. The metaphor loses its meaning, however, if while waiting the people become enamored with the night, the light of the moon’s reflection lulling them with a sickly, pale sort of illumination, a shadow hiding the beauty present there rather than illumining […]
How Becoming a Disciple of Jesus, NOT a Pretender, Helps You Win at Life and Girls
(This is the final part of a 3 part series titled How to Get a Girl Who’s Better Than You. Part 1 is here, part 2 is here.) In a world in which I lived with a stick up my butt, I’d tell you how much I hate this title. The implication that you should get serious with […]
How to Win the Girl of Your Dreams By Becoming the Man of HERS
(This is part 2 of How to Get a Girl Who’s Better Than You. Part 3 is How Becoming a Disciple of Jesus, NOT a Pretender, Helps You Win at Life and Girls) Guys, if you want to win the girl of your dreams, you have to make an important choice. There’s a price for every great conquest. We’re not talking in […]
How to Get a Girl Who’s Better Than You
Okay, this one’s for the guys. I know what you’re all thinking boys. Beneath that Christian veneer, there’s a man who, if he’s single, has one thing on his mind other than loving God and finding the quickest path onto the water after work. It’s how to get a girl. Maybe you’re at the wife […]
If You Accuse Someone of Judging, You’re Judging. Period.
No one likes a judgmental Christian. But most people are more than happy to snap out an instant judgment that someone else is judging them. They do exactly what they accuse others of doing by assuming someone else is doing it. “I disagree with you,” isn’t powerful enough without being punctuated with, “because you’re looking down on me, you hater!” Judging is the ultimate insult. But it’s […]
Does God Want You to Be Lazier?
I bet you’ve never heard someone say when you trusted in Jesus you were saved into lazy Christianity. I can see it now. “Go out into all the world and make lazy slobs of all nations.” “Blessed are the lazy; for they will be served good things.” And best of all, “They will know we […]
The Parable of the Good Hipster
Jesus once asked the question, “Who is my neighbor?” And you know, I can’t answer that. But I can tell you who my celebrity is. — If Jesus had come to the United States instead of Bethlehem to save the world, he probably would’ve come to Nebraska. This would’ve made up for all the jokes I’ve […]