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3 ways to encourage your pastor.

That idol that you love it doesn’t love you back.

Statistics that will amaze you about the world you live in.

Got too much e-mail? Learn how to simplify.

Welcome to wedding season. Check out these seriously bad wedding photos.

After visiting San Fransisco this week this impresses me.

 

thumb licks [4.26.12]

Is the internet ruining your brain?

How to deal with the loss of a spouse.

That’s not fair.

Sweet gadgets for the one percent who can afford them.

Do pets go to heaven?

10 of the most difficult theological issues Christians must face today.

How to lead a child to Christ?

The secret life of plankton. So small but so great.

More than just Christmas.

thumb licks [4.9.11]

Parenting: how eternity shapes the mundane.

Not so fast. The sometimes slow and steady process of sanctification.

The importance of writing letters.

Praying past our preferred outcomes.

Forget Kevlar, use liquid armor. This stuff is sweet!

15 grammar goofs that make you look silly.

Love is… (for you married folk)

Lottery is a suicidal craze.

Funny comments to the mega millions winner.

Dirt. Not your ordinary music video.

thumb licks [3.14.12]

Fight sin is tiring.

The gospel of art.

8 ways to protect your children from sexual abuse.

5 reasons God said “NO.”

Why daylight savings time is pointless.

Harold Camping admits sin and doomsday predictions.

Be careful what you say to your pastor.

Why imposters love church.

3 Little Pigs. If it were told today in today’s world.

Kony 2012. I hope this movement does not make this man famous, but that justice would be taken. I appreciate this letter from a fellow brother in Africa to a lady who has questions about Kony.

thumb licks [leap year]

9 Good Purposes in our Suffering.

Biblical Bouys in the Creation Science Debate.

How to Discern the Conversion of a Child.

Should Christians Boycott Boycotting.

Tattoos and Skin Deep Hermeneutics.

Go Beyond the Sex Questions.

My dream libraries. Emphasis is on “Dream.”

A pastor with ALS tends his garden.

What does the government do with all your income taxes?

The USA at night. Quite fascinating:

thumb licks [2.9.12]

Ways to build spiritual conversation.

8 profitable ways to read your Bible.

C.S. Lewis and the power of Story.

Don’t take it from me: reasons you should not marry an unbeliever.

How to disagree online without being a total jerk.

Atheism: lessons learned from Christopher Hitchens.

Free Run: I wish I could run like this.

 

thumb licks [1.27.11]

5 Ways Wives Can Encourage Their Husbands.

An Open Letter to Christian Wives with Unbelieving Husbands.

20 Things a Husband Could Say to Defuse an Argument with His Wife.

Don’t Know How To Act When Someone Corrects You? Your Worries Are Over!

How to Honor your wife. Treating your woman like a queen.

Parenting Wisdom 101. Straight from Proverbs.

What Does God Want From Me? Some Important Thoughts For Children.

Why pray? Learning from the lips of Jesus.

Tom Hanks and Toddlers & Tiara’s:

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3 Things You Need to Know about Sin

Community idolatry. Are chasing false gods together? 8-idol shattering questions.

Abandoned by God. What to do when you feel alone or forsaken.

Benefits of sorrow.

My dream vacation: move, learn, eat.

Nearer Heaven: a great 30-day devotional.

Religious views of 20-somethings.

Books on Christians and politics.

It’s amazing what artist can do with books, mailboxes, and more paper.

In our State they do not test parallel parking anymore. Maybe they need to rethink that:

thumb licks [happy 2012]

7 things highly productive people do.

How to write a good sympathy card.

It’s not wrong to question your pastor. In fact, as a pastor, I encourage this.

The Tyranny of advice column Christianity.

Jellyfish tank. What I would get if I had a few hundred dollars laying around.

6 lessons from a year of family devotions.

Why keep the whole family together for church?

Why read the Bible with a plan?

Read the entire Bible in 2012. Here are some helpful tools.

Why studying the Bible won’t (necessarily) change your life.

Facts about Google. It’s big.

Don Sweeting looks ahead to 2012.

2011: a year in review through pictures

The Hobbit. A movie I will have to wait at least 360 days to watch this year.

thumb licks [christmas edition]

Does X-mas really take Christ out of Christmas?

Jesus ripped up Santa’s list. Naughty or nice He can rip up yours too.

Christmas in a Nutshell.

10 Ways to bring the gospel home this Christmas.

Having trouble finding parking while Christmas Shopping? The science of parking.

The first Christmas: myths and realities.

Who were the magi? Maybe not what you think.

Will the real Saint Nick please stand up.

The Story. What the real Christmas is all about.

The Advent: resurrection, restoration & creation

The Incarnation [Odd Thomas]

Ditto. A classic Christmas lights photo that I’ve often thought about duplicating.

thumb licks [12.3.11]

Beholding the beauty of Christ in Wal-Mart

What Tim Tebow can’t do? Some want to make him super man, but he’s not.

The Devil’s playbook. And how he aims to defeat you.

Lessons for the church from Joe Paterno. Listen up young and old.

How to be better prepared for your next major presentation.

Are you mature? Mature believers possess these 5 indicators.

Man enough to love a real woman. Great post for daters or want-to-be daters.

God with us. Such a great promise from God.

thumb licks [thanksgiving edition]

Building relationships before sharing Christ? Impossible!

Making most of turkey day: thanksgiving on missions.

Family Tensions and the holidays.

World population grows to 7-billion. Our world has changed since the pilgrims landed on the rock.

Samaritan’s Purse Gift Catalog. This Thanksgiving commit to give outside your family.

A PLAN for giving generously.

Big News: God reconciling the world to Himself.

Are you moderately or extravagantly grateful?

37 ways to love one another.

Tears of the Saints.

thumb lick [11.11.11]

Reasons why God calls us to wait. Whether you like it or not.

Why I have no difficulty helping “Issue Christians” to move on.

How to articulate a Christian worldview in 4 easy steps.

Steve Jobs: he knew a couple of things he wanted to do.

Why men are in trouble.

Are twentysomethings expecting too much?

An amazing sermon. The book of Hebrews by memory:

thumb licks [harvest edition]

Hacked! And you thought your email was secure!?

Sent into the Harvest: Halloween on Mission. Be on mission this Halloween.

7 Reasons Why Halloween Judgment Houses Miss the Mark. I always thought they were corny.

Strangest Ways to Travel. I totally want one.

Give us the Peculiar Grace of a Peculiar People. A prayer from Spurgeon.

Religious Nerds. Too funny not to be true.

Is this the future of punctuation? Hey, I use these.

No, Justin is not the unibomber, he's a bugger catcher!

thumb licks [10.21.11]

What’s a good question? How to evoke curiosity the right way.

The gospel or Justice, which? Balancing the mission of the church.

In defense of Disney princesses. The benefits are more than just their beauty.

Three rules for polemics. Tim Keller weighs in on a debated issue.

The world is built on discipline.  An open letter to college freshmen.

10 reasons Christians should care about science. Can faith and science reconcile?

Little big world. See what an unordinary Nikon camera can do looking at God’s micro creation.

Victor-y. Overcoming cancer as a kid. Be inspired.