“You don’t need novocaine. I’m just going to use this drill to shape your tooth a little.”

My dentist told me that yesterday. If I didn’t have a complicated contraption in my mouth at the time, I would have replied, “You’re using a high powered drill to shape my tooth and you don’t feel like that requires novocaine? Seriously? Novocaine was meant for moments like this like the Kardashians were meant to date professional athletes.”

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As I’ve confessed before, my wife drives us home from church and I sit in the back seat with the kids. We do this because we go to a megachurch and until construction of a new bridge is finished, our church parking lot is akin to Mad Max and the Terrordome. Also, I’m a jerk and have the distinct ability to cut someone off mere minutes after hearing a sermon about grace.

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I wrote a new article on CNN.com.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. It’s about the 2 ways we become jerks online.

Click here to read it.

It is a well established fact that the average Christian uses 32% more exclamation points in their emails than Atheists. It’s not that we’re more excitable than other people, just that once we start capitalizing He and You and other references to God we start getting a little crazy with our punctuation too!!!

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This morning, I googled, “Best Christian Blogs.” Most of the results were blogs I had never heard of. Some were blogs I could not pronounce without at least a year or two of Hebrew under my belt.

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After more than 1,900 entries and a week of talking about it, the winner of the free iPad is …. (dramatic Ryan Seacrest like pause, during which you hit continue)

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(To quote Usher, my wife is “the business.” A few weeks ago she wrote her first guest post and I am currently trying to get her to start her own blog. Until that happens though, I’ll continue to help her put together guest posts like this one.)

Dear Hobby Lobby,

I really don’t even know where to start.

You are the bedazzled apple of my eye.

You are like a giant crock pot full of crafty goodness.

You are the Chick-fil-A of department stores.

To put it bluntly, if you were a person, you would be Beth Moore.

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Yesterday, in my excitement about a possible cage match between Justin Bieber and Harry Potter, I shared some wildly inaccurate information on Twitter.

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The build up on this video is slow but it has everything you’ve ever wanted in an online video. Zach Galifianakis? Check. The Muppets? Check. The band OK Go? Check. I thought this was hilarous.

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If you asked me last week if I had anything in common with Twilight star Robert Pattinson, I would have said, “Yes, we’re both bipeds, we have hair that borders on Conan O’Brien height levels and we’re constantly harassed by lycanthropes.”

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