Tag: love

• Shavings and Grounds

  What good are beard shavings and coffee grounds? For the Gillum family, I tend to cause irritation when I shave my face in the morning and leave little beard hairs in the sink. (To be fair, I only do it over my sink, so I fail to see the issue…lol). Another is the presence of…

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  February 26, 2026

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  bible, christianity, coffee, faith, god, jesus, love, marriage, mental-health, value

• You Need Some Gum

  The other day I was at a meeting after a long day of work that my wife was going to join me at. I’d been working all day, and this meeting was on a topic that both of us were passionate about, so I was excited for her to join me. As she sat down,…

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  February 14, 2026

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  bible, christianity, coffee, faith, fiction, god, jesus, life, love, mental-health, metamodernism, writing

• Maybe You’re Here

  Having worked in ministry for a long time, I often latch onto strange phrases that become part of the normal language of ministry. We can do this with other churchy words like sacrament and doctrine and liturgy, etc. One phrase in particular that makes me stop in my tracks, but which I hear almost every…

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  January 5, 2026

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  beauty, bible, calling, christianity, faith, god, jesus, love, mental-health, metamodernism

• Bricks

  A few weeks ago I had the chance to teach a seminary class at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Frightening, I know. But one of the cool things about when I return to the campus at SWBTS is seeing some of the legacy from my wife’s family there. Her father and grandfather both led the Physical…

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  December 31, 2025

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  beauty, bible, calling, christianity, faith, family, jesus, life, love, metamodernism, ministry, writing

• Straits and Gulfs, Rivers and Seas

  This past month was a unique one for me as I had the opportunity in a three week stretch to stand in the frigid waters of the Pacific in the Juan de Fuca Strait and then in the warm waves of the Atlantic in the Gulf of Mexico. Almost 3,000 miles apart, these two great…

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  June 22, 2025

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  atlantic, beach, christianity, faith, gulf of mexico, jesus, juan de fuca, love, pacific, poetry, sea, waves