From the back of an apartment building in DeKalb, IL.
Also for the weekend:
Check out Driscoll’s article, Pastoral Perspective on the Emergent Church.
Check out the band, Devotchka, listen to the song, How it Ends (free download at MySpace).
[A four part series]
Part One: Introduction
Part Two: Justice
What does God want from us? This is an important question; one I fear we often get wrong. From the moment of my conversion three values were drilled into my head. Read your bible and pray daily, and spend time with God’s people. All of this was considered [...]
Another thousand words for the weekend. I took this Wednesday in DeKalb. It’s a great looking old electrical repair shop on Lincoln Hwy. Check out all my pics here.
Other Friday Photos to check out: Steve McCoy and Timmy at Provocations and Pantings.
If you haven’t read Chris’ thoughts on “V,” be sure to check ‘em out [...]
Guest Blogger: Chris Keenon
Reviewing V for Vendetta
Chris Keenon is a teacher at Grace, an exegete of pop-culture and a writer currently shopping his first novel. I have asked him to share some thoughts on the popular new flick, “V for Vendetta.” My verbose friend was asked to keep it short so he chose to focus [...]
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”
- Exodus 20:16
What does it mean to “bear false witness” against our neighbor? One of my favorite treatments of this commandment is by Thomas Watson. He explains that the ninth commandment generally “forbids anything which may tend to the disparagement or prejudice of our neighbor.” This law [...]
If you have tried to contact me through the feedback form on this blog, but have not received a reply from me it is not because I don’t like you (unless you are Steve McCoy). That form is not working. You can contact me vie email at pastorjoe [at] gmail [dot] com. Make sense? If [...]
Just got this email.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is scheduled to appear tonight on the Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor.” Mohler will discuss how evangelical Christians should talk about and relate to Islam, in light of recent comments by evangelist Franklin Graham. In an interview, Graham [...]
My 4 year old daughter Katherine (”Kat,” much of the time) and I were able to play outside in the nice weather last week.
She recently witnessed her younger brother Elias (almost 2) get into trouble for disobeying. Afterward she walked up to her brother and said, “Come over here Eli,” and they walked to the [...]
This morning I read John Calvin’s sermon on 1 Timothy 2:3-5, “The Salvation of All Men” in a collection of his messages on the Pastoral epistles. For those who are wrestling with the doctrine of election, its relationship to God’s will for “all men” to be saved, and our work of evangelism this is a [...]
Did you listen? Did you hear the conversation between the two “liberal,” “left wing,” goatee wearing, tattoo sporting, beer drinking, emerging, pomo, Christian artists who are trying to lead our little ones astray (Sorry. I cribbed that from Russ Moore’s blog)? These labels are slapped on Derek Webb and Don Miller by a few critics [...]