Of the Way

As I’ve matured, I’ve realized that I had overemphasized the priority of apologetics in the Christian walk. It’s far more important to love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, and overcome evil with good. Apologetics is like responsible gun ownership. You train hoping you’ll never need to use the weapon in a live situation rather than strolling around like Yosemite Sam and being the rootingest tootingest apologist north, south, east, and west of the Pecos.

I don’t think I’ve done a post about it yet on this site, but one of the reasons why this site is not often updated is because I have been investing my time creating free coding videos for my project Stateless Code. This past Friday, November 25, 2022, I published my 200th video. Check it […]

If you are reading this, know that I have no intention of abandoning you. I recently lost loved ones in a car accident. We had gone to trivia together as we had nearly every Tuesday night for a couple of years. We said good-bye, not knowing that it would be our last. Their car was […]

Back in 2017, I decided to be Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter for Halloween. It wound up being my favorite Halloween costume ever. I took some photos and a couple of videos. (Maybe I’ll find and post those later.) Last Halloween Janelle found a smooth jazz track, and I had the idea of doing a video titled Gilderoy Lockhart After Dark (slightly thinking of the Dukakis After Dark sketch that Jon Lovitz did for Saturday Night Live in 1988.

greater than the some of its parts. I like the analogy of a lung for how my strengths work together. My Learner and Input strengths serve as the “inhale” phase of breathing. I take in information; I learn new skills; I make mistakes and learn from them; I fit the new information in with my existing knowledge and make connections. My Input and Strategic strengths really work well together as I try to make sense of what I’m learning. I’m never learning in isolation.

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.  For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do […]

If you follow me on social media, have read several other posts on this blog, or are friends with me on Facebook, perhaps you’ve seen some of my posts and began to wonder.  Is he, you know, one of those? Well let me confirm your fears: I am an anarchist. Unlike other closets, coming out […]

It was an unbelievable 3 hours.  That is “unbelievable” by the normal English usage of the word.  However, what is impossible with man is possible with God.  Today I have witnessed a miracle.  It isn’t on the same order of magnitude as God making the sun stand still (Joshua 10), parting the Red Sea (Exodus […]

Note: I wrote this back on October 13, 2003 for my favorite Dungeons and Dragons character, Deke MacKlellan.  I played with my best friends back home for close to ten years before I got married.  He was my good character in what we called “The Good/Evil Campaign.”  I just stumbled upon it again and thought […]

Note: I wrote this back on August 18, 2003 for my favorite Dungeons and Dragons character, Deke MacKlellan.  I played with my best friends back home for close to ten years before I got married.  He was my good character in what we called “The Good/Evil Campaign.”  I just stumbled upon it again and thought […]

“I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.” Psalm 35:18 Who is like You, O LORD?  Indeed, to ask the question is to answer it.  For You alone are from everlasting to everlasting.  You alone are uncreated, One God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.  You keep […]

Today I preached my second sermon at Christ Church of North Carolina.  I preached on Proverbs 11:1 and the title of the sermon is “Weights and Measures: Just and Unjust.”  In it I deal with such issues as honest business dealings, fraud, fiat money, and a basic overview of Christian economics. Feel free to listen […]

Due to the sovereignty of God, I have had Jonah’s prayer from the belly of the great fish in Jonah 2 preached to me twice in the past two weeks, first by Brian Phillips at Holy Trinity Reformed Church in Concord, NC on November 21, and then by Gene Liechty at Christ Church in Cary, […]

The sermon I preached on Sunday dealt some with the tanniyn/dragon.  Toby Sumpter, pastor of Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow, ID, just posted and brought another intriguing perspective to dragons in the Bible: “Yahweh plays with dragons, and growing up into the glory and wisdom of the sons of God means growing up to play […]

Today I preached my first sermon at Christ Church of North Carolina.  I preached on Psalm 148 and the title of the sermon is “All Creatures of Our God and King…” I wrote the whole sermon out in manuscript form and deviated from it some when I preached it.  Apparently my pages got out of […]