Biblical Survey, Again

It’s been about a month since I said that I was going to begin a survey of the Bible.  I promised that the next thing I posted would be about the creation and the fall.  One blogger even linked my site, saying how excited he was as this was a topic of interest to him.  [...]

Biblical Survey

I will soon begin a series of posts that will effectively be a survey study of the Bible.  I’ve been leading a study of Mark’s gospel since August, going verse by verse in each chapter.  I have posted a couple of times from Mark, but shy away from creating a Bible study of Mark online.  [...]

The Collapse of Evangelicalism

The InternetMonk recently posted some very thought provoking essays on his expectations of Evangelical churches in the 21st century and what happens after that.  It’s a three part series, and I’ve linked them in order.  Perhaps not the world, but the American Bible belt would become a very different place.  On the one hand I [...]

Church History: The Protestant Reformation

Martin Luther was a Roman Catholic Monk.  That is the first fact to get straight before going any farther.  He worked hard studying the scripture – and at working hard – in order to be the best young monk he could possibly be.  By nailing his 95 theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg [...]

Bittersweet Explained

In the December post Bittersweet  I spoke in the language of metaphor and analogy.  Read Bittersweet first; this will make that make sense.
We learned on the 10th of December that my wife Teresa is pregnant.  We have been pregnant twice and had miscarriages twice.  The first (in 2002) was unexpected and very traumatic.  In 2004, [...]

Welcoming 2009 or Look on the Bright Side

It’s a new year.  It’s our nature to be hopeful.  We have a whole new year with new opportunities, new resolutions, and a chance to start fresh.  A new president will soon take office, with a whole new administration.  Yet 2009 seems to be coming in with an awful lot of 2008 baggage.

New Year’s Resolutions?

I no longer make resolutions, per se.  There are of course a thing or two I would like to change, and in the spirit of turning over a new leaf, it’s hard not to be caught up in the moment.
In the last few weeks, I’ve started several different books and haven’t finished any.  I think [...]

Bittersweet

As a small child, we are taught a few emotional expressions.  We all learn happy, sad, angry and surprised at a young age.  The natural maturation process eventually teaches us that all things are not so simple.  Sometimes good news has a sting to it, or we take bad news and try to find the [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

 

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights…”  -James 1:17

I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.  We may not have every single thing we might wish for, be we have been richly, richly blessed.  The unemployment rate is up to 6%, but in some nations [...]

The Great Pumpkin Proposes a Toast

As hard as it may be to believe, there was a time when the InternetMonk was not the stuffy old grouch he is today.  Prove it to yourself by reading this post, entitled The Great Pumpkin Proposes a Toast, hidden away deep in the IM archives.  I do the dirty work so you don’t have [...]