by Jason Dykstra | Aug 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today’s post is short, sweet, and just for fun! Whether for our own children or for somebody else’s, we’ve all run across a particularly interesting name and thought, “That is freaking awesome!” while simultaneously envisioning the...
by Jason Dykstra | Aug 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Who do you owe some thanks to and why? This post is dedicated to Jim, my dad. Yes, these first few “gratitude-type” posts have been centered around my family, but seriously, leaving them for later just couldn’t be justified. I do owe them. I learned...
by Jason Dykstra | Aug 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
No no, this isn’t some heretical claim that people who can only take so much harp-strumming will be trying to flee heaven. But it is one of the most important questions one can ask about whether or not heaven can truly be all it’s strung up to be! God promises his...
by Jason Dykstra | Aug 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today’s Thanksgiving once again! I gotta say, these giving gratitude posts are really fun to write, and they put my mind in a happy, healthy place. Especially today’s. To Levi my 3 year-old, this one’s for you. I could thank you for teaching me...
by Jason Dykstra | Aug 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
So I work with students quite a bit and essentially have since I was one myself. Quite simply, they’re awesome, and it’s exciting to see people with such a unique combination of passion, inexperience, idealism, silliness, and skill have so much fun while...
by Jason Dykstra | Jul 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Like many other religious claims, the assumption that God has been, is, and always will be perfect is one of those givens that is often unfortunately just taught and then taken for granted. Christians assert he’s unchangingly flawless and base their whole...
