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Posted 2015-04-19T21:14:41Z

Crazy Radical

A few years ago I read the book Radical by David Platt; it was incredible. I just started reading Crazy Love, and I know I'm late on that train, but it's pretty great so far. These books are super encouraging to me as one of those crazy people who packed up and moved across the globe "because God told me to." [...]

Posted 2015-04-09T09:58:25Z

The Red Pill

When I was an early teen, the Matrix sequels were a big deal. So much so, Ron Luce's crew did a Matrix theme for Acquire the Fire the first year I went. I've never seen the second two Matrix movies, so I'm not sure how much came from those, but the whole "red pill/blue pill" thing was a big deal in the first movie and they made it into the "red door/blue door" at AtF. For those of you who might not remember the Matrix, the main characters discovered they lived in a world that just made them batteries to power someone else's world. People who discovered this could choose to take a blue pill to forget everything and life a copper-top life of ignorance or they could take the red pill and leave the matrix to forever fight against the abuse of humans as fuel. Or something like that; I honestly don't remember much, and it was a super complicated film.[...]

Posted 2015-04-04T10:52:53Z

It's Not About Me

Things are constantly changing inside my body, and there are nerves growing millimeters a day with results that I can't see yet. I haven't posted here for a while because I was preparing for spring break then enjoying my first week of break, and I felt like I had no updates to offer here. [...]