Category Archives: on writing well

How Do You Handle Assaults on the World Wide Web?

Turns out the world wide web didn’t become the sharing-of-ideas paradise we all once hoped it would be. This comparatively new way to communicate to a wide audience has created a comparatively new way for us to insult and belittle … Continue reading

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Bargains in the Remainder Bin: (Mostly) Forgotten Bangers

Sometimes a book comes along, captures the attention of an audience, and then seems to fade away. They’re not quite classics but their usefulness far outlasts their market. The list below is nothing but such books. Sure, if you want … Continue reading

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How has the internet impacted journalistic integrity?

There are some of us still around who remember the pre-internet world. There was a time when if you wanted your thoughts to reach an audience you had to find a publisher willing to help you out. That publisher had … Continue reading

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Classic Jesus Changes Everything- Plagiarism, Youth & More

Check out this week’s podcast, straight out of the Jesus Changes Everything vault. Let us know what you think. This week’s classic JCE episode

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Too Easily Distracted, Too Easily Satisfied

We live in a world where work gets done tomorrow. All deadlines must be flexible, negotiable in our day, lest we have no deadlines at all. Excellence has gone the way of the dodo. We are, in the words of … Continue reading

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Feeling His Pleasure, or, Hands Across a Keyboard

Not long ago, in our study of First Thessalonians (see here) we came across Paul’s injunction that we aspire to a quiet life, and work with our own hands (4:11). We talked briefly about two errors we are prone to … Continue reading

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Love Your Grammar: Death of Culture in the Death of Language

Grammers defiantly not easy getting it right. Know what I mean? Of course you know what I mean. So what difference does it make that I didn’t begin “Grammar’s definitely not easy to get right?” Aren’t grammar nerds, you know, … Continue reading

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The Purpose Driven Write

My father wrote and published over 100 books in his lifetime. What may be even more impressive is how he coaxed me into writing my first. I was 17 years old and a freshman at Grove City College. We were … Continue reading

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For Whom the Toll Belz

I was a student at Grove City College when I received a subscription to The Presbyterian Journal. It was not good looking. It had no articles apt to grab the interest of most college students. It wasn’t an academic publication. … Continue reading

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Encouraging Husbands; God and the Super Bowl and More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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