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This post originated as a message at Arise Church. I love the Avengers (and the whole OG Marvel Cinematic Universe, to be honest). I love it so much that I saw this movie twice on opening day: on...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2023/12/19/i-love-you-3000-god-is/

This post originally served as a message at Arise Church If you haven’t seen The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, let me highly recommend it to you. The film tells the story of a humdrum employee o...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2023/11/21/drinking-tea-the-liturgy-of-the-ordinary/

This post originally served as a message at Arise Church Who enjoys talking on the phone? Not me. I avoid talking on the phone as much as possible. Maybe that’s because of some bad customer ser...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2023/11/14/calling-a-friend-the-liturgy-of-the-ordinary/

This post originally served as a message at Arise Church Whether or not you’re an email hoarder, chances are that you have to deal with email—like, a lot of email. Since Ray Tomlinson sent fi...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2023/10/31/checking-email-the-liturgy-of-the-ordinary/

This post originally served as a message at Arise Church Growing up as the oldest of five kids, we didn’t often have a bunch of food leftover after dinner. But since Hayley and I got married, I...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2023/10/24/eating-leftovers-the-liturgy-of-the-ordinary/

This post originally served as a message at Arise Church As my grandfather—who just happens to have been a dentist—is fond of saying, “you should never skip brushing your teeth.” Now, can...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2023/10/17/brushing-your-teeth-the-liturgy-of-the-ordinary/

This post originally served as a message at Arise Church In this commencement speech to the 2014 class at the University of Texas, Admiral William McRaven had a simple message: if you want to cha...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2023/10/10/making-the-bed-the-liturgy-of-the-ordinary/

This post marks the end of our series on Paul and Pneuma, Justin and Judaism. In this series I have argued that the reception of Paul’s letters in Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho demonstrates a...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2022/01/26/paul-and-justin-conclusions-and-bibliography/

This post is part of an ongoing series on Paul and Pneuma, Justin and Judaism. As noted previously, in Paul’s day the conflagration centered on whether or not the Gentiles could be brought into...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2022/01/19/paul-and-justin-on-the-identity-of-israel/

This post is part of an ongoing series on Paul and Pneuma, Justin and Judaism. Paul refers to Abraham nineteen times in his undisputed letters, often citing God’s promise to Abraham, his faith,...

https://pursuingveritas.com/2022/01/12/paul-and-justin-on-the-ancestry-of-abraham/