31 Mar 2006 Comments Off

A Thousand for the Weekend

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).

30 Mar 2006 8

What Does God Want?

[Part one of a four part series.]
Part One: Intro
Part Two: Justice
Part Three: Loving Mercy
Part Four: Walking Humbly with God
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 [...]

24 Mar 2006 2

A Thousand Words

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 [...]

23 Mar 2006 7

V for Vendetta

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 [...]

22 Mar 2006 30

The Ninth

“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 [...]