Considering Credit Limits

I heard about this at work and decided to check into it.  Banks and credit card companies are now using “behavior analysis”.  Some people are having their credit limits lowered for shopping at the ‘wrong’ stores.

For those who prefer to read, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has it here.  The New York Times [...]

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Considering Dice-K’s Manny Moment

The season was fairly quiet.  Yes, there had been injuries but there was no drama for the Red Sox this season.  It all seemed to leave the team when Manny was shipped to the far side of the continent.
There could have been drama with the recent acquisition of Adam LaRoche.  Mike Lowell has been presumed [...]

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Considering the Gospel-Centered Life

A few friends planted a church and wanted to instill some good gospel DNA.  But they found the small group material unsuitable for their purposes.  So, they turned World Harvest Missions materials into a 9-week study appropriate for both immature Christians and non-Christians to ground them in the Gospel-Centered Life.
Soon it was bearing great fruit [...]

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Considering the Red Sox’ Trades

It has been a busy day for the Red Sox front office as the trade deadline draws near, and the Sox are mired in an offensive slump.  I’m not saying anything needed to be done, but they have not been playing well and have relinquished the AL East lead to the Yankees.
The Red Sox plundered [...]

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Considering The Big Three

During my teen years, my greatest love was the Boston Celtics.  I was enamored with Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish- in a manly sort of way of course.  The Red Sox had cooled off after the debacle of 1978.  The Big Three captured the heart of New England, selling out the venerable Boston [...]

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Considering The True Care of Souls

In this day and age ministry has become more about systems, programs and administration than it was in centuries gone by.  Sometimes we need to re-assess.  One way to gain a bit of historical perspective is Peter Beale’s translation of Martin Bucer’s book on pastoral ministry called Concerning the True Care of Souls.
Bucer was one [...]

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Considering Christ and Culture Revisited

D.A. Carson re-enters the discussion of Christianity’s relationship with culture in Christ and Culture Revisited.  I say re-enters because he hits some similar issues in The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism and his more recent Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church.  This time he evaluates the classic, influential work of H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ [...]

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Considering the Deaconess Debate

This year at the PCA General Assembly, Ligon Duncan and Tim Keller participated in a discusson/debate on the issue of women deacons.  Feeding on Christ provides the audio for those who couldn’t get there (I had to attend to some matters at home and left before it began).  Derek Thomas commends both Ligon and Tim [...]

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Considering the Celtics’ Moves

It has been an interesting off season for the Boston Celtics thus far.
The first move was an obvious no-brainer: tending an offer to Glen “Big Baby” Davis making him a restricted free-agent.  This allows the Celtics to match any offer, which they will most likely do unless that offer is outrageous.  Big Baby showed some [...]

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Considering Doubt

Doubt is an interesting period piece set in the 1960’s shortly after JFK’s assassination.  It takes place in an inner city parish.  Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the parish priest who finds himself in a battle with a Pharisaical nun (Meryl Streep) how serves as principle of the Catholic school.  It plays, in part, on the [...]

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Considering Freedom

I’ve been working my way through  Christ & Culture Revisited by D.A. Carson.  In his chapter on Secularism, Democracy, Freedom and Power I found this appropriate as we celebrate that “holiday” to freedom.
The democratic tradition in the West has fostered a great deal of freedom from Scripture, God, tradition, and assorted moral constraints; it encouraged [...]

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Considering Gran Torino

We finally watched the latest movie by Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino.  He plays a crotchedy, bigoted, foul-mouthed widower who ends up learning to care about people- in his own way.
The movie opens with his wife’s funeral and we are introduced to this distant family.  They are distant because he is essentially toxic.  They know little [...]

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Considering Non-Free Agents

Today is the last day for NBA players with options to opt out and become free agents.  Oddly enough, a number of them are not doing so.  But I think these guys made the right move.
Among those who decided to stay put for the final year of their contract are the Celtics’ Eddie House, and [...]

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