Starting Friday, CCEF is running its annual conference in Valley Forge, PA. You can click this linkto register or view speakers and breakouts. Several look pretty good. The keynote is by Ed Welch who is releasing his new book on the topic (free to conference registrants). By the way, his picture is on the page [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 30, 2007
My apologies to Coffee-mate
Last Spring I revealed the seeming paint properties of coffee-mate. You can read about it here. For months, the splatter drops on my driveway remained strong despite the weather elements and direct spray from a hose. Now a new and seemingly permenant splatter makes me question whether I unfairly singled out this product. This week, my youngest splattered Silk Vanilla Soy Milk drops on [...]
October 29, 2007
Last tomato, first frost, and second WS win
Yesterday, October 28, saw the coming together of several good things that epitomize Fall for me. I got one last ripe tomato off my dying vines, my son and I saw a 6 point buck at close range on a bike ride, we got our first frost of the year finally (I love fall but I [...]
October 26, 2007
New diagnostic categories for children?
Those who parent or counsel children with emotional troubles recognize how crude our current set of diagnostic categories are at the present time. Kids labeled ADHD, Bi-polar, and ODD all share similar symptoms. They all can be impulsive, easily angered, hyperactive, grandiose, irritable, etc. But a friend of mine sent me some literature from researchers [...]
October 24, 2007
What if you were known for your moral failures?
On Sunday, our pastor asked this question. What if you are known only for your moral failures; forever known by your sin? Or another way to ask this is who do you “know” only for their moral failings? He mentioned that wikipedia informs us that Monica Lewinsky has recently received a grad degree. But we [...]
October 23, 2007
Escape into humor: Who is your favorite author?
Sometimes, you just want to escape the world and enter someone else’s for the moment. Who are your favorite authors when it comes to the humorous escapes?
Pretty much anything by Bill Bryson. A Walk in the Woods may be his best. When I read that book in bed, I would start snorting and waking my [...]
October 22, 2007
Knowing God’s faithfulness in a broken world
Several important people in my circles are experiencing serious, life-threatening, health problems. Within the last year, several acquaintances have died. When you hear or experience one of these events, do you ever question whether God is faithful? Good? Do you find it hard to sing about God’s faithfulness when relationships are broken or breaking down, when health or [...]
October 19, 2007
Baseball vs. Football or Committed marriage vs. affair
I heard this analogy that rings true for me. Baseball is like marriage, it takes massive commitment over time, through thick and thin. Its easy to get in a hole but it is possible to dig out. Football is like an affair, it is fast-paced, always has a new opportunity for excitement each Sunday. Though [...]
October 18, 2007
How uncomfortable are you willing to be in church?
My bus trip around Philadelphia yesterday got me thinking again about comfort and how we use our desire for it to shape where we worship. When we went to Bethel Deliverance Church, we saw a church that started in a motel suite. They were able to squeeze 60 in the space. Neither the outside nor [...]
October 17, 2007
What is God doing in Philadelphia?
Being an academic has certain perks. I got to participate in one of them today. A DMin cohort is in session this week and part of their class was a tour of Philadelphia to see what God is doing in and through the church. We left early this am on a Hagey bus (donated I hear, thank you [...]
