A Joel Osteen Board Game (with an aside on family holiday letters)

December 27th, 2008 in Church by admin 8

I returned from a Christmas journey to Indiana on Christmas Dayto find a mountain of wet, heavy snow at the end of my driveway, which I would spend an hour shoveling and griping about. At some point during the shoveling/griping I found a package on my front porch from my good friends Cory and Kelly [...]

Rest in Peace RCA Dome

December 20th, 2008 in Uncategorized by admin 6

My dad called me last night to tell me they’re blowing up theRCA Dome this morning.It will be thetypical dynamite and mushroom-cloud-of-rubble type-affair, shown on the evening news, and then forgotten, largely, forever.
The RCA Dome (really The Hoosier Dome, but whatever) was the stadium of my youth. I saw my first NFL game there [...]

Another Open Letter to the Detroit Lions re: The Possibility of Me Becoming the General Manager, Also Containing Free, Unsolicited Draft Advice

December 16th, 2008 in Football by admin 2

Dear Detroit Lions,
Wow. A lot has happened since I last wrote (a letter which, for what it’s worth to my readers, went unacknowledged). We’ve elected a new president, our current president has had two shoes thrown at him in Iraq, and your mayor has gone to jail. In that time period you’ve also failed to [...]

A “Why We’re Not Emergent” Holiday Blowout

December 9th, 2008 in Fame by admin 6

So I was cleaning out my office today and under the chair in which Tristan usually sits and listens to my ipod I found a random box of Why We’re Not Emergent books. Needless to say I’d like to get rid of these, so here’s what I’ll do: You can paypal me $10 to k_luck96@hotmail.comandmy [...]

On S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, and My First Live MMA Fight

December 6th, 2008 in Uncategorized by admin 12

So I covered my first real, live Mixed Martial Arts show tonight, ostensibly for Sport Lansing magazine, though it remains to be seen how much or ifthey’ll let me actually write about in in their publication. That said, I’m free to write about anything on the cyber-pages of Ted Wins. so here goes.
First off, the [...]

What Would Jesus Read? On Christians and Personal Reading Restrictions

December 4th, 2008 in Church by admin 21

A facebook friend of mine, CJ Fast, posted a really interesting discussion on that site that I wanted to throw out for the 8.5 million (and growing) readers of Ted Wins.. The central question arises from what looks like a devotional blurb from a guy named Joel Beeke, and it is as follows:
“Read as an [...]

Stuff Calvinists Like

December 3rd, 2008 in Church by admin 7

So I had a great conversation with a friend of mine yesterday…it would be perfect in a Leonard Sweetian way if the conversation had happened over lattes at a Starbucks (Leonard would say we had a “soulcafe” – which is Leonard-speak for “conversation”), but it actually took place in my car, with me drinking a [...]