My time for working as a Barista at Starbucks is coming to end (thank God!). It has been an incredibly tough year for me, but I wanted to reflect on what I learned through this process. So, let me get a cup of coffee (Starbucks of course) and we’ll get going. First of all, let [...]
Wow. It has been a long, long time since I have had time to write or even think. I miss it. I work so much now, it wears me out. I fight to maintain my walk with God – scraping and clawing and fighting each day to find time to read His Word. My usual [...]
Continuing the Retro Valiant blog posts. Where I just was… ORIGINAL POST DATE: 08.02.08 I need to write a post about my story. But this isn’t it. Fooled ya :) Instead, this post is about something I read in Velvet Elvis the other day. Moses is up on Mt. Sinai getting the Ten Commandments, then [...]
Continuing the Retro Valiant blog posts. The God That Sometimes Can’t Be Found ORIGINAL POST DATE: 07.18.08 I’m a bit of a Bebo Norman fan. That is what is known as an understatement. I really like Bebo. He’s one of the few musical artists that always seems to capture how I feel. I could always [...]
Continuing the Retro Valiant blog posts. This is one of my personal favorites. Teaspoon of Faith original post date: 07.12.08 I’m not much of a poet. I don’t really “poemificate” much anymore. But I did when I was younger. Most of them were awful, but they were an outlet for me to get out thoughts [...]
I know it’s bad protocol to publish multiple times in one day. But with the message that we just heard at Buckhead Church yesterday about the Waiting Room, I thought this was appropriate. I started it a long time ago, March 21, 2009, to be exact. I’m not going to add anything else to it, [...]
Continuing the Retro Valiant blog posts. Separation original post date: 07.10.08 I’ve been reading Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell lately… one of the things he mentioned while I was reading today was questions about God and how they are essential to Christianity. Even Jesus, while on the cross, questions God. But that leads me to [...]
I had tried to blog several times before I created the Valiant Blog. My biggest hang-up was visuals… if I didn’t like how it looked, I didn’t want to blog. I played with iWeb, but without a .Mac or MobileMe account, it just wasn’t the same. But I was digging around and came across some [...]
I know I should be going to sleep. I have to be at work at 5am. But I wrote this in January, but I cannot believe how relevant it is for me even today. There are good reasons to weep. Sometimes you are so blessed by the people around you, you weep. Sometimes you [...]
I was reading this verse today, and a thought hit me. I thought I would go ahead and share it on here (for the two of you that read this). Proverbs 14:31 says “He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.” My first thought [...]
