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  • Book Reviews

    BOOK REVIEW: Kenobi

    April 13, 2018 /

    Star Wars is one of my favorite stories, from Episode 1 to Episode 8. The saga is only as good as it’s characters. Kenobi gives us a look at one of the coolest characters in the whole series, Obi Wan Kenobi.

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    The Three Body Problem Book Review - Joel Arndt

    The Three Body Problem: Grand Sci-Fi. Intimate Story.

    April 22, 2018

    C. S. Lewis: Living In the Collision of Myth and Reason – Part One

    May 15, 2018
    Ready Player One Book Review - Joel Arndt

    Ready Player One: Proof of the Power of Nostalgia

    April 29, 2018
  • Small Business Marketing - The Coffee Shop Principle - Joel Arndt
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    Small Business Marketing – The Coffee Shop Principle

    April 10, 2018 /

    Whether you like it or not, you don’t have a business without the right attention. Small business marketing fails when trying to grab everyone’s attention all at once. It’s like being in a coffee shop, shouting at everyone to buy your product. It can work if someone there is desperate for what you’re offering. But mostly you’re going to piss people off.

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    Distilling Experience Into Advertising for Your Small Business

    May 16, 2018

    Selling In Tough Times: The Sales Book that Makes Me Want to Sell

    May 6, 2018

    Bill Gates’ Secret to Being Useful From 1996

    May 9, 2018
  • Andrew Miedema, Co-Director of Burn 24/7 Hamilton, and Andy Groen, Co-Director of GOHOP.
    Small Thoughts

    Meet Andrew & Andy. They’re Helping Hamilton Love Jesus.

    April 7, 2018 /

    These two men are Christian leaders in Hamilton, helping people connect with God (Andrew on the left, Andy on the Right). Both are doing simple, but fun things to bring believers together, train them in spiritual disciplines, create spaces for worship, and build up the church in Hamilton. And both men are just getting started, although they’ve been working for a while now.

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    When Waiting Looks Like Working

    December 8, 2016

    Make Money Online From Home – Amazon Associates Quick Guide

    March 30, 2020

    Gritty Faith

    December 2, 2017
  • Small Thoughts

    Gritty Faith

    December 2, 2017 /

    Why are most Christian magazines so cheesy? In the process of writing a profile about a local Christian leader, Jade was helping me look for Christian magazines that might run the article. She messaged me while at work about how cheesy it all was. I usually try to defend Christian media, but there’s no defense for this. Christian media is typically cliche, predictable, buried in fluff, and straight up cringe worthy. Am I wrong?

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    When Waiting Looks Like Working

    December 8, 2016
    Andrew Miedema, Co-Director of Burn 24/7 Hamilton, and Andy Groen, Co-Director of GOHOP.

    Meet Andrew & Andy. They’re Helping Hamilton Love Jesus.

    April 7, 2018
  • Small Thoughts

    When Waiting Looks Like Working

    December 8, 2016 /

    If there was a test at the end of this life-course, I’ve failed. “Waiting” and “Rest” were repeated themes over the past few months. In the time that I was given to rest and “learn of Jesus,” selfish ambition and weeds of worldly worries strangled my peace.

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    Gritty Faith

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    April 7, 2018
  • Short Stories

    What He Couldn’t See

    November 14, 2016 /

    ** This short story was written for a Writer’s Digest Prompt: When a man takes lunch to his wife’s office, he’s told that she hasn’t worked there in weeks.** White hot anger oozed from his eyes like puss. A small piece of paper quivered in his hands. Why hadn’t he noticed the signs? They showed up a couple months ago. * * *

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  • Essays

    What the San Bernardino Shooters Share in Common With the Zuckerbergs

    November 14, 2016 /

    When someone my age decides that massacring co-workers is the logical next step in their life, I wonder at how drastically different their life must be from mine. Sayed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were married and had stable jobs. They left behind a 6 month old baby girl when they gunned down 14 people at a Christmas party. My wife and I are about to have a baby. What would have to happen in our lives to leave our brand new baby behind, destroying our family and 14 others?

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    Creating a Horcrux

    November 14, 2016

    Passion That Death Can’t Match

    November 14, 2016
  • Essays

    Creating a Horcrux

    November 14, 2016 /

    Become a parent. Become immortal. You can live forever by splintering your soul and placing the shards into objects or other people so that a portion of you will always live on. If you’ve amassed enough power for yourself, you may even be able to come back from the dead. There’s horror though. Tearing your soul apart requires murder. You must take someone else’s life if you want immortality. But it’s not a guaranteed plan and you loose your humanity in the process. There’s another way. It’s more like an investment, like planting a tree. But it still requires a death. I discovered this when my daughter was born. If…

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  • Essays

    Passion That Death Can’t Match

    November 14, 2016 /

    God is passionate for you. Or more accurately, he is jealous for you. Ever been jealous of a friendship, wishing you were a part of the inner circle? Ever been jealous for someone’s attention — a crush, falling in love while it feels like they barely notice? It’s a desperate need that bullies your thoughts.

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  • Open Sky Copywriting

    Inside the Marketing That Powers GoWrench Auto’s Industry Disruption

    May 13, 2016 /

    GoWrench Auto is a Hamilton company that’s disrupting the auto repair industry. They’re expanding to other cities and building an app. Referrals, content and digital marketing power their expansion. Getting your car serviced is like going to the doctors. You need to take time off work or out of your family life to get it done. You’re either sitting in a waiting room for 45 minutes or driving to the shop, getting a shuttle back to work, then getting a shuttle back to the shop, and driving home or back to work. Inconvenient. But that’s how it is.

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