August 26th 2010
I fought myself to write this today. Lately I’ve found myself sharing less and less online. It could be discretion. Or it could be isolation. But I’m here to share because I think I should. My family is heartbroken right now. We were looking at closing on our house a week or two after the [...]
August 20th 2010
First Corinthians chapter 14 has been a burden on my heart for some time. It’s worth reading chapters 12-14 in one sitting, so that we have more context for chapter 14. When people ask: What is the church meeting supposed to look like? We see the answer very plainly beginning in 1 Corinthians 14:26 26What [...]
August 15th 2010
Confession: I royally botched Mother’s Day this year. I mean ruined the entire day. It was a major milestone in our relationship, and I missed the opportunity to honor my wife the way she should be honored. And so here I am, celebrating you one more time, my beautiful Wifeypotamus, in this Mother’s Day Part [...]
August 7th 2010
Confession #1: I like to look at and admire my blogs more than I like to write for them. Confession #2: sometimes i hold my cellphone up to my ear when i pray in public so people won’t think i’m crazy. Confession #3: I can’t look people in the eye when they’re lying to themselves [...]
August 6th 2010
Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor.” Does social networking have the same effect on ministers? Will we begin to see fewer miracles everywhere we go because they know we watched LOST and enjoyed that brownie sundae at Applebees? I think [...]
April 27th 2010
Back in the days when no one had heard of Twitter, the dawn of civilization as we know it, quite a few bloggers actually published tweet-length posts. I guess people with Tumblr accounts still do, but let’s not get technical. So here’s my thought of the day, in 150 words or less:
April 19th 2010
Thoughts on this statement? “If no one pursues you, you’re not valuable. If you’re always the pursuer, you’ve never been loved.”
October 23rd 2009
If it’s the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of kings to search out a matter, whose glory is it to blog a matter?
September 18th 2009
When I was 19, I was new to the faith and growing through a nine month discipleship training school at church. I was prone to anxiety attacks and nearly debilitating fear of failure. I second guessed everything and never felt satisfied about ANY explanation. So I journaled and journaled and journaled, desperately seeking an opportunity [...]
July 19th 2009
It’s ironic that my username is DanielthePoet. I’ve never really been a poet. A self-absorbed writer of prose, perhaps. But never a poet. Back when I attempted to write poetry, I bought up books of poetry whenever possible. I read poets like Mark Strand, Pablo Neruda, Lord Byron, John Keats, W.H. Auden, and Denise Levertov.
I [...]
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