Just a brief note. I generally use www.foxnews.com as my primary online news source, but recently I have gotten really frustrated with their obsession with the macabre. Let me just give a brief sampling of the headlines I have seen this week: Dad Sodomized Teen Stepson to Avenge Rape of Daughter Pennsylvania Man Avoids Criminal… Read More »
Last night, we had our annual New Year’s Eve party at church. As we had been promising for a few months now, Doug and I performed Weird Al’s “White and Nerdy.” If ever there was a song to describe the two of us – this is it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPmlgZvtPMY] The party was a lot of fun… Read More »
I cross posted this from my other blog – Adventures in Missing the Point. That blog is mostly just for random thoughts and rants, but I wanted this post to get a wider distribution. In a recent conversations with another football enthusiast, the topic of the passer rating became a subject of great disgust. Most… Read More »
This afternoon, one of our deacons – Greg Jones – and I went to see a piece of property I had enquired about before Christmas. It is just south of the retail district on South Willow Street. It is 5.39 acres of relatively flat, unencumbered land although there are some wetlands. Around 2002, Thrifty Rental… Read More »
There has been a lot of talk over the last two days about the words of Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. In an interview with Simon Mayo of BBC Radio 5, Williams answered some questions about the birth of Jesus and the validity of the observance of Christmas. The media has, true to form, taken… Read More »
Some of you may not be aware of this little known fact, but it snows in New Hampshire. Technically, we are still in autumn but someone forgets to tell the weather every year. This year has been particularly impressive thus far. Last week, we had two storms and this morning we awoke to another five… Read More »
[Mark Driscoll has an] infatuation with the vulgar aspects of contemporary society…the lifestyle he models—especially his easygoing familiarity with all this world’s filthy fads—practically guarantees that [his disciples] will make little progress toward authentic sanctification. (John MacArthur, Pulpit Magazine, December 2006) That’s what John Macarthur had to say about Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill… Read More »
I have to be honest with you. All the hype about megachurches and church growth strategies and vision statements and Purpose-Driven™ whatever is really getting thin with me. For awhile there, I was intrigued by churches like Willow Creek Community Church and Saddleback Church; and I have to admit, those churches are pretty intriguing. There’s… Read More »
Being raised in an arch-conservative, ultra-fundamentalist tradition, it still boggles my mind that guys like John Piper and Mark Driscoll find common ground and work together in the ministry. On the surface, they are about as different as two leaders can be. John Piper Piper is old school. He still wears a tie and a… Read More »
Approaching the Bible, or really any work of literature, requires an understanding of context. Many passages of Scripture cannot be understood correctly if you do not embrace the context in which it was written. Unfortunately for us, there are many people who use the word context without understanding what it means. This broad misunderstanding leads… Read More »
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