Author: James Christensen

During my training to run the sound board at church here, the philosophy was “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.” “This isn’t important,” he would say, and then adjust the setting that had just be deemed unimportant. Compare this with another man I met who practiced another philosophy. “This pen still has ink,” […]

I lived eight months at the training center and it never quite felt like home. For the first few months in Wisconsin, I felt even more out of place. Now, God has provided a little townhouse for Ely and I to live in for the first few months of marriage before we move to our […]

When Ely and I were dating long distance, one way we decided to make Christmas special was to open advent calendars each day over the phone. I found a cheap chocolate one, and she came up empty at a couple of stores. I promised that I’d get her an advent calendar some other time, and […]

The Bible is the worlds all-time best selling book, with billions of copies in print. It’s a hard statistic to track, since there are so many versions, languages, and publishers, but one statistic that I found estimated around 5 billion have been printed. Since the world population is 7.5 billion, and I can count 8 […]