The Creative Christian Blog
The Geek’s Prayer
Hi, God. It's me, the geek. So I think you've hardwired the geek thing into my DNA. I'm incurably curious, for one thing. In fact, I've made it a way of life. I like asking the questions no one else is asking and making the connections no one else is making. I love...
Beloved: Find Yourself in a True Fairy Tale
Sometimes the best way to rediscover something familiar is to look at it through a fresh lens, from a different angle. Maybe the Bible has gotten stale for you. The problem isn't with the Bible, it's with us—so I want to give you a powerful free lens to rediscover the...
Practical Tips For Princesses In Towers and Knights In Shining Armour
The princess in the tower fairy tale The cult classic movie Shrek highlighted an ingenious fantasy world built on many generations of myths and fairy tales. In the first movie, Shrek steps up to become the proverbial knight in shining armour. His quest? To rescue a...
Calling all Princesses: Relationship Advice From a Former Frog
The Princess and the Frog is Disney's animated adaptation of a fairy tale called The Frog Prince penned in the 1700s by the Brothers Grimm. The Grimm's tale is about a spoiled brat of a princess who is rewarded with true love for learning to keep her word. Modern...
How to Become Invisible like a Ninja
When I was a teenager I bought Ashida Kim's book, "Secrets of the Ninja," and devoured it. Actually, I skimmed or skipped over the sketchy parts—stuff about Eastern meditation and how to kill people with one blow. But the sections on "ninja invisibility" were amazing,...
Our God is Healer.
This won't be a geekish post, per se, but I need to share this. God still speaks. God still heals. This past Sunday I'd just preached my lungs out and was singing my way through the closing song, when a few of the lyrics stood out to me: "Our God is Healer, awesome in...
How to conquer worry: Prayer 2.0 (prayer for Geeks)
I began the week by saying we're all a bunch of time travelling zombies. Life can only be lived in the present, but we drift from past, to present, to future and back again, time travelling a thousand times a day. The more we time travel, the more stressed we get....
How to conquer worry using a Mall Map
Yesterday I gave you heartbreaking news: We're all a bunch of time travelling zombies. If you'd like more time travel training, be sure to click the "time travel" tab in the menu bar. It will take you to a page with all my time travel posts for your viewing pleasure....
Are You a Time Travelling Zombie?
Life, it turns out, is all about time travel. Our minds jump back and forth between past, present, and future all day long. What did you eat for supper last night? What are your weekend plans? How do you feel right now? See? The thing is, the more time jumping we do,...
Hero School Finale: Samson’s Story VideoCast
This week we've been exploring the life of Samson, an Old Testament superhero. His journey is a mirror we can gaze into, containing rich parallels with the power to shape our lives. To cap things off, I'd like to share a sermon I preached last weekend. It will recap...
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