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We are all prone to jealousy or envy from time to time. Jealousy is a gift from God, an attribute of the Lord's which we are blessed to receive to glorify his name. Like many aspects of our nature which were given to us as gifts, our sinful state has since corrupted. Thus instead of being jealous for God and his gifts, and jealous after the redemption of the hearts of men, we are jealous for our

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After over two years of waiting the girl finally got her bling. Yes, Jess and I are engaged. I took her out to dinner as part of her Christmas present and decided it was a good time to dirty the knee. She said yes, thank God. Hopefully none of you are very surprised by this. Hopefully it was expected. No we have not set a date yet. The wedding will be some time shortly after she graduates. We are

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Review: EnchantedIt seems that Disney may finally have joined the 21st century. I recently had an enjoyable evening at the movies with my girlfriend when we went to see the Disney's newest release, Enchanted. Its a new take on the old story of the fairytale princess and prince charming and how they overcome some evil relative or jealous queen to find each other and live happily ever after. In

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Not exactly perfect form. I know what your thinking, he can't throw on the run. This will be completed for a first down. Eat your heart out Kyle Wright. Here is the opposition. My dad. Is there any bigger rivalry. Notice the intensity. Guess its pretty easy to throw when Skip is protecting you. And he only sacked me once.Yes that is me trying to make a shoestring tackle. And he does go down.

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Last Friday I had the privilege once again to sit in on Christmas Concert Chapel. This is a special event the music department puts on where they allow us to preview Come Christmas Sing for free during the chapel hour.Towards the end of the show a number of the various choir members filter themselves throughout the crowd so that the entire room was filled with them seemingly randomly scattered

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Disclaimer: As I am well aware there are numerous arguments for and against a change in the college football system. I welcome responses.I began writing this before the events of this past weekend in college football, when again, the top two teams in the polls both lost. This was initially a response by Dan Wetzel, a sports columnist writing on the need for a playoff system in college football.

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I applied for Grad School today. The Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling. OK, I actually just started the application process. Turning in an application is just step one, steps 2 - 50 to follow. Considering I work in the undergraduate admissions office it shouldn't be that painful. It is a little scary though. Thinking about school getting even harder. I wasn't a huge fan of the undergraduate

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The Lord has blessed me with many things, a great job, great room mates, a wonderful girl, family. I mean, realistically we are all rich, we live in America. I went to a private college; I live in "the valley." The Lord has truly blessed me my whole life. Recently I had an opportunity to reflect on these blessings.I do not own a car. I could own a car, at least in theory. That, however, would

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The following is an update on Anika's work in the Ukraine. For more information or how you can help leave a comment or contact me through email. Hello friends!So I've updated some of you already, but I've kinda failed on general updates so far. But yeah... we're in Ukraine! God has blessed us in ridiculous ways so far on this trip from the moment we left! Nice people, cheaper rates on our

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The results are in, and at least somewhat biased, but its my blog so deal with it. The results of the poll on who is the fittest athlete are in, and by some miracle, beach volleyball. Alright, now obviously 11 votes isn't enough to get any real data about what type of athlete people think are the most fit. Additionally I am pretty sure my diabetic room mate voted twice. However, it does provide

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Today I had lunch in the cafe. Not to knock our wonderful cafeteria but the food is not always so good. Do to the selection of lasagna or assorted chicken product I opted for the ever available pizza. It wasn't bad, not my first choice for a meal but who am I to complain. I noticed however that my girlfriend was thoroughly enjoying the sandwich that she had so carefully constructed from the deli

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Sometimes the best part of my break isn't the lunch at all, its the ride back. Sitting in the car after a satisfying meal. Not just the satisfaction of being full but the ability to be totally relaxed. I don't have to worry about work, or what I am doing that night, I am not distracted by hunger, or bills, or obligations. It doesn't matter if I talk or just sit and do nothing. It gets even better

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On the suggestion of my wonderful girlfriend (bonus points) I decided it would be good to let all of you know the origins of the name of this blog. Obviously it is a pun. Pearls means pearls of wisdom and Fish is my nickname. Fish has been my nickname before and recently reemerged last year thanks to Red. (also a guys nickname) Fish of course is because Herring is my last name and a herring is a

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The above is the title of the fourth chapter of Nichols' book which I have been reading for our departmental round table. In this chapter Nichol's quotes from several sermons where Jonathan Edwards speaks towards the treatment of Native Americans by his countrymen. Anyone who studies Edwards knows that he was known as one who was friendly to the native causes. The title to act justly is of course

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This isn't one of my normal posts. I am simply writing to say how much I love Sprinkles Cupcakes. I am currently eating one of the dark chocolate variety. They are definitely trendy, I saw Michelle Trachtenburg there the last time I went. (Shameless name dropping) And it was the first thing Paris Hilton had when she got out. Not that there opinions mean anything. These cupcakes would be amazing

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No, I am not going to write about Chipotle. That just happens to be where I spent my lunch. Their steak bowls are really good though. My lunch thought for the day is good conversation. Good conversation is priceless. If I could give one piece of advice to young men looking for a women it would be to find one who can make good conversation.Now I know some of you are flipping out asking yourself,

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Continuing the story of the Friday morning meetings this is an email I wrote to Jess after one of our first meetings. We took a breif break from Nichol's Heaven on Earth to read a chapter from Leading with Love from Alexander Strauch. This is the email I sent her. Maybe you can relate to some of these things.J,I know that text was probably pretty weird, especially right before chapel. Its just I

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I was going to write tonight on how I spent Halloween. As usual at my church helping with our Pumpkin Patch Party. Ironically it is not a party but more of a carnival and its at a church, not a pumpkin patch. In fact I don't think I even saw any pumpkins there. Anyways. I spent the whole time making cotton candy, not a bad gig. However, the journey back up to SCV was not so great.Detours, I hate

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Lunch Break will be posted periodically as a short insight into my thoughts on my lunch break.Today I had lunch with Joe Keller. Easily a highlight of anyones day. Surprisingly High School Musical nor any other Disney Channel production was brought up. Praise the lord. Sorry Joe but I am not a fan. Anyways. I think the real highlight of the lunch was to be able to reconnect with my friend. Funny

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Welcome to my blog. I am seriously doubting that this blog will go anywhere but we will see. I hope to post twice a week, once just for fun to bring up whatever randomness I feel like sharing and once to hopefully share something of value. Tonights post will hopefully be one of those that actually has some value. In my new job at The Master's College I attend a department meeting every Friday

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