I am desperately jealous of Josh Harris. Of course I would assume that there are lots of people who are jealous of him. After all, he wrote a silly little book about dating courtship that must have sold more copies than The Prayer of Jabez and probably made him filthy, stinking rich. If my understanding…
Monday November 21, 2005 Giveaway: Carla is giving away something (anything) from her Scripscenes store. Click here to read the rules and to enter. Cool: A church built entirely of Lego blocks seats 1372. Jollyblogger has the story with pictures. Cool Bonus: My wife sells CD racks and fireplaces on eBay. I cannot believe how…
I have no idea where she picked it up, but my daughter has begun to answer my son’s apologies with the phrase, “Sorry doesn’t know how to count!” She may have made it up. Wherever she got the phrase from, she does not seem to understand what it should logically mean. To her it means…
I have received a few “complaints” of late that I have not been writing enough articles of a personal nature. That is probably true and I hope to remedy that, at least somewhat, next week. In the meantime I thought I’d share an article I wrote a couple of years ago to honor my father…
A Critical, Judgmental Deconstruction of Derek Webb’s Life, Faith and Ministry It seems that some people are expecting me to deconstruct the interview with Derek Webb. I am not going to do that. I am not going to write about what my conversation with him did to my opinion of his life, faith or ministry.…
Friday November 18, 2005 New Blog: There is a new kid on the block. iWestminster is a blog dedicated to a study of Westminster Confession of Faith. The template was made by yours truly. Du Jour: Justin Taylor is writing a multi-part series in which he tries to define the Emerging Church. The articles are…
This is the second and final installment of an interview with Derek Webb. You can read the first installment here: Derek Webb – The Challies Dot Com Interview. Let me go to a reader question here. We’ll lighten it up for a minute. In your opinion, what is the most underappreciated of your songs and…
Thursday November 17, 2005 Gadget: InstaVerse looks like an interesting little browser plugin that will let you instantly see the actual Bible text for scripture references. Just point your mouse at a Scripture reference and the text pops up in your preferred translation! Du Jour: I was quite taken with Amy’s article about “Why I…
Yesterday afternoon Derek Webb took time out of what was his first day off in a week to speak with me. We talked for almost an hour and discussed his new album, doctrine, social justice and a variety of other topics. We even discussed (or at least touched on) Reformed theology, the Emerging Church and…
Wednesday November 16, 2005 RIP: Adrian Rogers, longtime Bellevue pastor and leader in Conservative Resurgence, died yesterday at the age of 74. BPNews reports. Community: Carla wonders if she should have offered a ride to a rather downtrodden looking hitchhiker. She is looking for input. “I wished last night, that we lived in a world…
This week’s King of the Week honor goes to a newcomer to my blogroll. I actually met Marc, proud proprieter of Purgatorio when I was at the Desiring God conference last month but did not realize at the time that Purgatorio was his project (I’m a bit dense that way). With tens of thousands of…
This morning I began to read the book of 1 Kings. Earler this year I had read through the Old Testament up to the end of 2 Samuel and, after spending some time in the New Testament, I decided to pick up where I had left off. As you know if you read this site…
Tuesday November 15, 2005 Spiritual Hygiene: Noel has an excellent idea of what to do with The Outdoor Bible. “If I win, I plan on taping its pages on the wall in my shower or making a shower-curtain out of them.” You can, of course, win the Bible right here. Du Jour: Ingrid compares the…
It is time, once again, for a giveaway. I have arranged quite an unusual prize this month, but one I trust will grab your interest. As always, two equal prizes will be awarded based on a random drawing from all entries received. Each winner will receive two prizes. The first prize is a copy of…
The Passion of the Christ was a major marketing success. But it was more than that. It was an astounding, shocking success that few people felt was possible. It was, after all, a movie filmed in a dead language focusing on a dead man whom most people in the world hate. It was overtly Christian…
Monday November 14, 2005 Du Jour: Maryanne reminds us “that hospitality is opening yourself up to people WHEN they arrive, not when you might plan to have them arrive.” There is a big difference! Archaeology: Archaeologists digging at the purported biblical home of Goliath have unearthed a shard of pottery bearing an inscription of the…
Before church began this morning I was thinking about exegetical fallacies. I’m not sure why this topic was on my mind but I was trying to think back to which of these fallacies I have written about on this site. I came up with three and promptly forgot one of them. I thought I’d collect…
This afternoon Aileen and I went out to look at homes in various neighborhoods in this area. We know that we want to buy a place of our own but are not quite sure where. Having rented for the past seven years we are growing increasingly tired of paying other peoples’ mortgages and feel it…
My son has recently taken an interest in wars and the military. I have a 39-volume Time-Life series of books covering the Second World War and he loves to sit and look through the pictures. He often bemoans the fact that he cannot yet read as he would love to be able to learn about…
Friday November 11, 2005 Du Jour: Kirk Wellum, a pastor who lives nearby (in Ancaster, where I grew up) has a thought-provoking little article entitled Al Qaeda “Takes Responsibility”. Community Blog: Ron Gleason posts Part 2 of his series “Postmodernism & the Modern Church.” Weird: Apparently upside-down Christmas trees are all the rage this year.…