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Category: church

the first post of the rest of my life

Most of the posts I publish here on odfm take somewhere between 30 minutes to an hour to compose. This post has taken over 7 years to materialize. Consider yourselves warned. In college the Good Lord saw fit to surround me with a group of boys-becoming-men on a street called Luther. So special did these [...]

who knew? everyone but me.

Several months ago I was given the great and humbling opportunity of becoming one of the people who leads the music for the middle schoolers at my beloved church. I gladly took advantage of this chance to serve the body, especially in light of the fact that it was something I’d felt the Father nudging [...]

Pray for Ava

Tonight I had the immense privilege of praying with a family I’d never met on behalf of their sweet baby girl, Ava. Many months ago Ava was diagnosed with an extremely rare and life-threatening disease called Moyamoya. Since then, (from my understanding) she’s needed to see a specialist but hasn’t been in good enough condition [...]

confessions of a baptist in a presbyterian format*

You know the ice-breaker questions that you’re inevitably asked in job interviews or when you find yourself in a new place with new people? Questions like, “If you were an animal, what kind would you be?” or “What’s your favorite ice cream?” or in more straight-forward crowds, “What are you passionate about?” We all know [...]

world’s first bearded super hero

Having spent all of four weekends back here in College Station at my beloved church, Living Hope, this weekend the powers that be decided it was time to put me back in a skit. I’ve been in a handful of skits at the Hopester over the past few years, but only once have I played [...]