Posted in Meanderings on March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m preaching tomorrow and I’ve been staying on top of school during this new quarter, so I am really far behind in blogging. I hope to begin catching up this week. Anyway…here’s some stuff I came across this week.
1. lament: wartime ! rejoice: easter
2. Are Christians against sexual freedom
3. My trust in my Lord by [...]
Posted in Meanderings on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I pulled an all-nighter last night to finish up school. I’ll be catching up on my blog, finishing a sermon, and starting my next quarter class this coming week.
Here’s some stuff I came across this week…
1. Easter as the new Day of Atonement from Marc Driscoll
2. Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian
3. [...]
Posted in Meanderings on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Some stuff I came across this week…
1. One entry in an amazing series on Francis S Collins’ book “The Language of God”.
2. The desire for un-boring Christianity
3. A healthy response to John Piper.
4. Samson by Regina Spektor
5. The last surviving US veteran of World War I.
6. “Why I feel suddenly old.”
7. Traffic light timers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
This is the last week of my quarter at school, and I’ve been playing that wonderful game known as catch-up. I will be posting again early next week if all goes well.
In the mean time, I had a conversation today and a lyric from “Advice, like youth, probably wasted” (one of the best prose [...]
Posted in Meanderings on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Just some stuff I came across this week…
1. A Pastoral Response to Illegal immigration.
2. Moses was the first Jeff Spicoli.
3. A Baha’i Sunday school (I don’t know how this makes me feel).
4. Tony Jones swapping Emergent Village for Smurf Village (warning: this is satire!).
5. Thoughts on Obama’s economic advisors…
6. [...]
Posted in Bible Study on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
WordPress lost my original post and I’m not re-typing the whole thing (it was the longest post I have ever written for this blog). What follows is the basic idea.
There are three primary reasons God subjects us to times of discomfort: to discipline us, to protect us, to prepare us. How is God using the [...]
Posted in Bible Study on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
There was no water for the people to drink and they again began to complain about where God had brought them. The people complained that at least in Egypt they had not died of thirst. The Lord instructed Moses and Aaron to take the staff from the tabernacle and go to a nearby [...]
Posted in Bible Study on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Korah and a couple of his buddies incite a rebellion against Moses. When they approach Moses, Moses does not argue, but instead tells Korah and his 250 recruits to come and burn an offering before the Lord and God will decide who is in charge. The Lord destroys the tents of Korah and his two [...]
Posted in Sports on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Basketball
My Jayhawks just beat Texas Tech by 58…that’s right…they won 109-51. That’s a Texas Tech team that just knocked of Texas.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently I have been very disappointed with the teachings of John Piper. Given, I am not Reformed and so we would naturally be at odds, but it seems to me that Piper has taken to creating unnecessary walls within Christianity. A few months ago it was over the issue of Baptism. Piper, [...]
Posted in Bible Study on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
At the report of the scouts the people begin to weep and complain. They are fearful of going into this land and decide that they will select their own leaders and return to Egypt. The Lord says that he will destroy the people, but Moses intercedes and asks that the people be spared. God tells [...]
Posted in Church on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
(I finally got caught up on my Bible reading, now if I can get caught up on school, and writing out some book reviews I’ll be all set.)
Today was one of the best trips to church that we have had in a while. We didn’t have to wrangle coats and trudge through snow. [...]
Posted in Bible Study on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The people complain to Moses that they do not like the food God is providing for them; they remember the better tasting food they used to get in Egypt. God becomes angry and sends fires into the camp, Moses prays for the people and God removes the fires. 70 leaders are then commissioned by Moses. [...]
Posted in Prayer on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
God of new beginnings,
Thank you for this new season of life. Thank you for not leaving us in the cold and the dark forever. Thank you for the turning of the seasons and the wondrous beauty I take for granted because I expect it. Thank you for working in normal ordinary ways to [...]
Posted in Bible Study on March 1, 2008 | No Comments »
The Lord gives instructions on how a Nazarite covenant with God is to be consecrated. Aaron is also instructed on how to bless the people with the words, “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon [...]
Posted in Meanderings on March 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Some stuff I came across this week…
1. To be a good theologian…
2. Who would the Samaritan woman be today?
3. Blood-Free transplants for Jehovah’s Witnesses.
4. The saints of the yellow fever.
5. Anne Rice to return to vampires.
6. This American Life’s take on testosterone.
7. The player in today’s NBA who plays most like Larry Bird is…Kevin Garnett?!?!?!
8. [...]
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