Study Skillz for The Suckcessful Stoodent

Studying is hard work. You don’t learn all twenty-six letters in the alphabet by counting your 1,2,3′s. If you are like 75.6% of all students out there, you study your Facebook more than your textbook. And that flat out won’t work. In effort to appeal to my audience and lend a hand in successful studying habits, I thought it would be important to share a few tips that I never...
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Haven’t Met You Yet

Last week two of my friends got married and like at most weddings, I had a lot of people ask me when it will be my turn or consoling me that the next wedding will be mine. While I smile at them and know they mean well, I often just shrug my shoulders and tell them, “Thanks, I just haven’t met her yet.” Hearing questions like that though don’t discourage me or make me want...
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Tattoos and the Bible

Unlike some of the major decisions I’ve made in my life (like buying a house or a Harley), I actually put a lot of thought and research into getting a tattoo. I’ve been wanting to get a tattoo since last April, but before I could go through with it, I needed to find out what the Bible actually says about tattoos. Before I did any research, the only verse I knew in the Bible that...
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Inked

Saturday night I posted on Facebook that I checked into a tattoo parlor. While many of you thought this was a weird joke, I actually was there. In fact, I wasn’t lying about “Lines done. Shading going on now.” I have been waiting for almost five months to get a tattoo, but with my busy summer traveling nonstop, I put it off. Now that I am home until the first week of November,...
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Wild Hogs

If you would have told me that today I would wake up, sign our church up for five new forms of advertising with one-year contracts, kill a wolf spider the size the of my head in someone’s office, and buy a Harley, I would have told you it’s another day in the life of Christ Church Kirkland’s Marketing and Communications Director. Oh wait, what did you say? That’s not...
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Dropping Bombs

After High School, I joined a leadership program called The Master’s Commission. While at our annual MC Conference, a buddy of mine was leading a prayer gathering before the meeting began. In an attempt to lead a passionate declaration for faith and expectation, my friend meant to say “God, set our hearts on fire,” but in the passion of the moment, his prayer came out,...
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