Posted in Atonement, Books, Charles Spurgeon on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
The doctrine of the atonement is quite the hot topic these days. I just started reading The Great Exchange (a gift from my sister-in-law). Keep your eyes open for a review. That and a blogversation with Bert about an old manuscript of mine has me working on a manuscript. It was on a floppy disk, [...]
Posted in Books, Christian Living, Theology, Worship on November 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday’s chapter in Running Scared is in a section on money. In an earlier chapter he was building the connection between our greed and our wavering allegiences between the 2 kingdoms. He ends up talking about the tithe, which was something I’d been thinking about for the last week or so. First Ed, and then [...]
Posted in Baseball, Red Sox on November 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Eric Wilbur tries to weigh the risk vs. reward for the Red Sox and Yankees pursuing Johan Santana. He mentions that the last time such a dominating pitcher was available (because his team couldn’t re-sign him) was when Pedro was traded to the Red Sox from the Expos. He was traded for Carl Pavano (who [...]
Posted in Atonement, Books, Emerging Church, Hermeneutics, Mark Driscoll, Theology on November 27, 2007 | 23 Comments »
Out of Ur sort of enters the Rob Bell discussion with a summary of his Rob’s Raleigh, NC stop on his “the gods aren’t angry” tour. The summary is interesting, the comments are puzzling. A quick comment about Mark Driscoll’s statements about Rob at the Convergent Conference sparked numerous attacks on Mark Driscoll. He and [...]
Posted in Books, Christian Living, Current Events, Ethics, Global Warming, History, Media, Politics on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
When Nations Die- America on the Brink: Ten Warning Signs of a Culture in Crisis by Jim Nelson Black was written published in 1994, near the beginning of the Clinton Presidency. That is a bit important. But I think the cover says it all.
Black uses the research of others to identify the common factors in [...]
Posted in Books, Church, Evangelism, Mark Driscoll, Ministry, Missions, Revival, technology on November 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I went to a seminar on church renewal a little over a week ago. My Presbytery worked with our denominational board covering church planting and renewal to put this together. Ken Priddy, a pastor and church consultant, has taken a part-time position with our denomination to assist in the revitalization of many of our congregations through [...]
Posted in Baseball, Basketball, Celtics, Family, Football, Humor, Patriots, Red Sox on November 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is a collection of things serious, and silly.
I’m thankful…
- for pre-approval for our adoption of ‘Eli’.
- for the surgery that has repaired ‘Eli’s’ cleft-lip (we aren’t sure about the palate).
- CavDaughter seems willing to share her parents with ‘Eli’ since he doesn’t have any.
- we are all healthy and have comfortable shelter over our [...]
Posted in Books, Christian Living, Evangelism, Ministry, Theology on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Thomas Boston is one of my favorite Puritan preachers. When I saw that his sermons on repentance had been published as Repentance: Turning from sin to God: What it means and why it’s necessary, I had great interest.
The sermons found here were delivered at both the beginning and end of his ministry in Ettrick, Scotland. [...]
Posted in Books, Christian Living, Counseling, Family, Martin Luther on November 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been reading Ed Welch’s Running Scared as designed- one chapter a day to provide time to think and process it. So far I’ve gone through the Initial Observations and God Speaks, or 8 days worth of pondering worry, fear and why they are so destructive in my own life.
Ed breaks down fears into background [...]
Posted in Books, Hermeneutics, Justification, Martin Luther, Theology on November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m concluding my summary of Guy Prentiss Waters’ book Justification and the New Perspectives on Paul with his critiques of the New Perspectives.
Critiquing the New Perspective
Hermeneutical Issues
Sanders develops a synergistic religion in response to the largely Pelagian picture of Judaism put forth by earlier liberal scholars. But he seemed to be quite selective in his [...]
Posted in Books, Counseling, Eschatology, Ethics, Ministry, Theology on November 19, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Salvation Belongs to the Lord: An Introduction to Systematic Theology by John Frame lies somewhere between Packer’s Concise Theology or Sproul’s Essential Truths of the Christian Faith and the more thorough texts like Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology or Charles Hodge’s 3 volume Systematic Theology.
John Frame’s volume can be technical at times. But it is fairly [...]
Posted in Baseball, Red Sox on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Sounds like free agency may not have been what Mike Lowell was expecting. But it can be that way when you are a baseball player past the age of 30.
A-Rod and Boras miscalculated, and essentially blew a rather good extension. The market for someone able to pay him that much for that long was, well, [...]
Posted in Movies on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Pride and ambition can quickly lead to obsession. And that is when things get dicey.
Christopher Nolan is the king of the “mess with your mind” movie. He is the director of Memento and Insomnia. Memento built his reputation. Batman Begins (and its sequel The Dark Knight) made him a top rank director. The Prestige is [...]
Posted in Movies, Pornography on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
About half way through the movie, CavWife said “I’m confused.” “Me too.”
We were confused, I think, because we were supposed to be put in the shoes of the detectives trying to solve this crime. They know John Holmes is involved, but they don’t know if he is someone caught up in something he didn’t expect, [...]
Posted in Baseball, Red Sox on November 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
With the AL MVP all but Stay-Rod’s, Boston.com’s Jason Tuohey develops why the numbers can be deceiving.
“True, A-Rod’s eye-popping power numbers (54 homers, 156 RBI) make Ortiz’s 35 round-trippers and 117 ribbies look downright pedestrian. On top of that, A-Rod led the league with a gaudy .645 slugging percentage — the best measure of a [...]
Posted in Current Events, Global Warming, Politics on November 16, 2007 | 7 Comments »
The Orlando Utilities Commission stopped construction on a coal-burning power plant. They already spent over $22 million on the project slated to be about $500 million. Although this new plant would be far less polluting than older coal-burning plants, it would still produce carbon dioxide increasing the dreaded carbon footprint. This would lead to fees [...]
Posted in Family, Humor on November 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today was the day my daughter was anticipating all month- my birthday. That’s because we are closer to her birthday.
We’ve been building up to this throughout the week. Monday we had steak with a curry rub on it for dinner. The requested mashed potatoes (CavDaughter calls them smashed tomatoes) didn’t happen due to CavWife time [...]
Posted in Basketball, Celtics, Humor on November 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I was not a believer. I was not convinced the Celtics would be a great team. It is only 7 games into the season, but unless Doc Rivers kills one of them by playing KG, Pierce and Allen 35+ per night they will be a great team. Seriously, only one of the games was close. [...]
Posted in Baseball, Red Sox on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Indians’ Eric Wedge, who did a very good job won. But see if this voting makes sense.
Player
Club
1st
2nd
3rd
Points
Eric Wedge
Indians
19
6
3
116
Mike Scioscia
Angels
4
11
9
62
Joe Torre
Yankees
5
8
12
61
Terry Francona
Red Sox
–
3
4
13
The Red Sox didn’t make the playoffs last year, like the Indians. They had some injury problems with Manny, Curt, Wake and Beckett missing significant chunks of time, like the Yankees. They are [...]
Posted in Movies, Music on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
“Where was the redemption in that?”
I’d taught CavWife well. There is usually redemption, of some sort, in a story. Here there was none. “This was about justice.” And an ugly form of justice it was in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed.
The Departed refers to those the main characters lost whose lives haunt them and drive them. [...]
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