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Today I was reflecting on, of all things, my right wrist. Yes, I actually expended mental energy on the recent transformation of my wrist with two colored wristbands. As pictured above, one represents a desire to see an end to global poverty, the other an end to the heinous act of pre-born homicide, abortion. It’s funny that in a town that prances giddy over polarization and politicization, two opposites can co-exist on the same wrist. And why not? Both seem to be equally important and valid concerns to God; the Creator of universe cares equally, undivided about the poor and children, unborn or not.

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This is an essay I wrote for my Biblical Hermeneutics class. We were assigned the task of choosing a Gospel pericope (story/passage) and were suppose to describe and analyze it. I thought it was a pretty good read, so I thought I would post it here. I must warn you, it is long (3500 words, [...]

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Here is a document version of the sermon I have this past Sunday on Mark 9:38-41. I will put it in post format shortly, but until then enjoy this!
-jeremy

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After I left three years of full-time ministry I worked a stint for Nordstrom, a department store known for their Yearly and Half-Yearly sales, in addition to their high-end merchandise. One of the interesting things about working at this Nordstrom is that it is located in the richest, most diverse county in the country: Fairfax [...]

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As I have begun (re)wrestling with truth and knowing, and especially how I know and “truth” within our postmodern, post-Christian world, I found renewed comfort that we can in fact know, because God has revealed. I wrote this post over two years ago during a similar “crisis of knowing.” I hope it comforts you [...]

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I wrote this piece at the beginning of my faith-deconstruction faze. I had been wrestling with the fundamentals of my faith for a few months when I read this story in the Washington Post. For me, this story get’s to the heart of the gospel and what it means to “be a Christian”: Is it [...]

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I officially crossed the heritic line Sunday: I bought a narrative Bible, a TNIV Bible nonetheless! What did I buy exactly and why did I do this?
At the beginning of the year, Zondervan published their TNIV translation in “book” form, called The Story. Basically, the book is the text of the Bible without the chapters [...]

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