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Posted by josh on May 8, 2012

Now you too can be right all the time. Just like me.

More than once in my life I’ve been asked, “How are you always right about everything?” It’s a fair question since it seems that I’m always right about everything. It occurs to me that it would be an act of supreme generosity to try and equip you to share in the freedom and security of always being right. Just like me. In fairness, much of this is just instinct and natural,...

Posted by josh on Apr 4, 2012

Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One

I admire Rush Limbaugh. I first heard Rush Limbaugh in my grandfather’s mid-nineties, maroon Caprice Classic. The whole family was piled in – three to a seat – for a day trip up the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. I was in the middle front seat hoping that for once my grandpa would let me play with his CB radio. He didn’t. Instead he turned on AM radio. I remember him explaining to my...

Posted by josh on Apr 3, 2012

Eight Years

Eight years into marriage and I’m amazed daily at the friend I have in Melinda. If I have a persistent fear or insecurity (hint: I do) it’s that I won’t be known or understood. Friendship, to me, is, in part, the process of expanding knowledge of a person and accepting them based on (or in spite of) that knowledge. Love, to me, is, in part, the deliberate attempt to know someone and...

Posted by josh on Apr 2, 2012

Men’s Ministry Sucks

There was an episode of the sitcom King of Queens where lead-character Doug was going to psychiatrist. I think he was working through his food issues. Somewhere along the way, once Doug’s wife Carrie started seeing the psychiatry working, she began bribing the doctor to start dealing with her pet-peeves about Doug. Hygiene or money or music or housekeeping. It became pretty ridiculous by the end of...

Posted by josh on Mar 29, 2012

My response…

…to the Christian response about the Christian response to the Trayvon Martin story First and foremost, whether or not Zimmerman was acting in self-defense, it’s tragic that a kid lost his life. I support a man’s right to lethal self-defense when necessary. I carry a concealed weapon in case I find myself in a “him or me” scenario. But I don’t desire that, nor do I relish the thought of...

Posted by josh on Mar 26, 2012

Interview with Cliff Graham

Recently I had the chance to speak with Cliff Graham and discuss his Lion of War series. He graciously gave me an hour of him time. It was pretty awesome. I’ve posted the interview in 6 parts over at Blog of Manly. Check it out! READ THE INTERVIEW: Here Buy the Books: Share...

Posted by josh on Feb 22, 2012

Past Blast 2008: I’m giving up “missing the point” for Lent

Every year it’s the same thing. But this year it was even more obvious. That’s why coming in at #9 on my All Time least Favorite Questions list is the Lenten staple: “What are you giving up this year?” To all of you suffering from a lack of chocolate or caffeine, I say, “Why bother?” Your pseudo-sacrifice reeks of self-interest and self-serving traditionalism. Let me save you 40 days of true...

Posted by josh on Feb 9, 2012

Fresh Air

If you pay attention to my Facebook feed, you’ll know that on Tuesday my wife and I paid off all our (non student loan) debts. It was the final blow in a process that began quite desperately in March of 2008. We started to acknowledge there was a problem in January of 2008. I had been avoiding it because I was afraid of the answer, but I finally looked into how we were spending our money. I came to the...