A few years ago while I was mourning over a recent death I went out to see my friend and mentor, The Bob. As we kicked around the farm doing random chores we took cover from the frigid January rain inside one of his many out-buildings. Very seriously he said, “I wish I could hurt …
Category: faith
Dec 27
Quotable: Wayne Grudem
“Everything that looks different than the fires of hell is the result of common grace.”
Nov 06
VBS 2013 Development Diary: #14: Digital Content Creation & Management
As I have previously mentioned, the first skits we started doing were entirely written by me an hour before we performed them. There was a single Microsoft Word document with all of that week’s skits–that was it. As the years have progressed, we have strived to do better, and as a result we have created …
Oct 28
Humblebrag
n., “a statement in which you pretend to be modest but which you are really using as a way of telling people about your success or achievements.” The word was recently added to the dictionary. Tim Challies, where I first heard the word, has an excellent tutorial on how to humblebrag effectively.
Oct 09
Quotable: D.A. Carson
“There’s no rulebook in Haddon Robinson’s ‘Homiletics’ that says, ‘Thou shalt preach the entire flipping book or thou shalt be damned.’”
Sep 20
VBS 2013 Development Diary: #13: Experimentation & Doubt
VBS is over now. I hadn’t posted a VBS update in a while simply because we had reached that point in the project where we were in the thick of doing the heavy lifting–building sets, making costumes, creating and acquiring props, and rehearsing. Sometimes that can get kind of hairy, as we don’t often have …
Sep 03
Theology of Air Conditioning
Jonah 4:8, “…and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Aug 26
Quotable: Adam Clarke
“Wherever bitterness is, there love is wanting. And where love is wanting in the married life, there is hell upon earth.” –Adam Clark in his commentary on Colossians 3:19
