the tindog coffeehouse

Welcome to summer! I’m officially 9 months into my year-long commitment to read through the Bible, and perhaps more importantly, I’m officially done with the historical and prophetic books of the Old Testament. After falling behind in Jeremiah, I moved on and came back as soon as I had the chance, and now I’m happy to report I’m fully back on schedule. Which means that after five months of being in the Old Testament, I can finally get back to the New Testament starting this week. I’m really looking forward these last few months as the remaining books are probably the most applicable to day-to-day life. (Not that I don’t love books like Habakkuk and Obadiah, of course.)

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While I don’t have a son, I do have two young daughters, and any father of young kids can instantly relate to the lyrics of the song below, “Follow Me” by Remedy Drive. There are times when kids ask deep and complicated questions that are difficult to answer, but more often than not, they just want to spend time with their daddy.

I try to be the best father I can for my kids, and as the song says, I don’t want to let them down. In the end, I hope I will have done enough and set the right example for my kids to follow. But more importantly, I pray that they’ll keep running toward “this hope that I can’t see”, Jesus Christ.

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I had my doubts about the movie adaptation of Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz after reading unChristian author Gabe Lyons’ review of the screenplay. After seeing this teaser trailer, though, I’m doubting no more.

It looks amazing.

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On Monday, Ohio State coach and sweater vest aficionado Jim Tressel was forced to resign as a Sports Illustrated exposé revealed that the recent scandal concerning football players trading Buckeye memorabilia for tattoos, money, and possibly drugs actually went much further than originally reported. According to SI, such NCAA violations stretched back all the way to his days as coach at Youngstown State in the mid ’90s. Any time a player violation was exposed, SI argues, Tressel would claim he didn’t know anything about it. Yet the pattern was so widespread and so ingrained into the culture of both schools, that it would be virtually impossible for the head coach to be completely ignorant of them. And emails obtained by The Columbus Dispatch prove that he did at least know about the latest violations concerning quarterback Terrelle Pryor and others but never notified the university or the NCAA.

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As a Christian, your personality type (and subsequent political leanings) affect how you approach your relationship with God. No real surprise there. But Donald Miller recently expounded on this concept by looking at it through the spectrum of the Enneagram.

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