In A Mirror Dimly

Batch 03 – The Merzik Exchange

Are you ready for more merzik? Each week, a friend and I exchanged a song, and it was awesome.  It’s been over a year now. Learn about the experiment here, or catch up on the previous batch. Here are a few more tunes that we traded. Small doses . . . 5a. 6a. 5b. The [...]

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Batch 02 – The Merzik Exchange

This is the second grouping of a few songs from the wicked-awesome (if you’re over 50, “wicked-awesome” means it’s “good”) experimental project I did with a friend. Fill yourself in over here, and then expose yourself (ewww!!) to some great music that may be perfectly new to you. Small doses . . . 3a. 4a. [...]

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The Merzik Exchange

Today marks the one-year anniversary of a very cool experiment I began with a friend, that I’m now excited to share with others. I’ve told you how I love the sharing of music, yes? Well, on May 17, 2011, I proposed an idea to a close friend (relationally, not geographically), in which we would ‘exchange’ [...]

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Self-Medicating with Self-Laughter

“It’s funny because it’s true” is one of my favourite sayings that I don’t say. And I think that Christians have some of the best material for ‘funny cuz it’s true’ stuff. But oh, how often we are defensive and irritable, instead of being able to laugh at ourselves! If we could only take that [...]

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Playing with Sharp Objects

Just something I’ve been thinking about today: Most churches give our high school graduates a Bible to take with them in the world. But by then, is it “too late”? I mean, sure, it’ll be close to them, and at any time of crisis, or whatever, they can turn to it, and seek out some [...]

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Good Friday Grilling

Yesterday was my annual Good Friday Barbecue, and it was splendid. Each year at this time, I pull together a bunch of people, and host an often unseasonal barbecue meal. We have a good ol’ time, with good food, fun activities, and quality hang-out time.  It’s a tradition that began many, many years ago, and [...]

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A Different Duty

This coming week, I’m going to be the Chapel Speaker at our big brother camp, Ness Lake. I’m terribly excited, but also terribly nervous. See, this is the first time I’ve done something like this.  As a program director, I’ve spent countless summers interacting with Chapel Speakers–helping them tune their sessions, collect props, evaluate their [...]

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