This for a magazine for Cornerstone University and also posted here; the theme was called “breathe.” |inline
This for a magazine for Cornerstone University and also posted here; the theme was called “breathe.” |inline
Here is my review of Joseph Epstein, In a Cardboard Belt!, which the subtitle calls Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007). Epstein is my favorite essayist and I commend this book to you as vintage Epstein. |inline
An officer’s got to do his job, even if it means ticketing the Oscar Meier Mayer Wienermobile:
I recently got the suggestion to make available information about a pastor’s retreat center from Jim Watters. The report Jim sent me indicates why this is worth a conversation on this blog. |inline
Is Eat this Book by Eugene Peterson. How do you read the Bible? |inline
One day before we came to Denmark Kris asked me how much Danish I thought we might be able to understand. My comment was that we didn’t need to worry because my understanding was that most Danish knew English – which has proven once again to show just how international the Danish can be. Yes, they can speak English very well. But here at the Oase national conference they worship in Danish — of course. |inline
Here’s another letter used with permission. I’ll reply later, but what would you say — how do we make our ministries, including those with our youth, more missional? |inline
We are all for churches and Christians extending mercy to the divorced, but we are also all for advocating the permanency and richness of marriage and I sometimes think an emphasis on this is too often assumed and not taught often enough. I offer today a personal argument against divorce. |inline
My post last week on thinking about going to seminary unleashed a bag full of suggestions and, in particular, the questions about “to go or not to go” to seminary (its necessity) and “what do you really get out of it” (its affects and effects). I don’t want to address those questions today, but leave them for another day. For now, I’d like to reflect on my Galatians course at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, PA. |inline