I have this excellent collection of Puritan sermons next to my reading chair. Six volumes, each weighing in at over 600+ pages. I was reading from it this week and wanted to share a quote. From a sermon on Mt. 5:16,
Christ here intendeth that we must abound especially in those good works which the world [...]
“Ask any dope rat where their junk sprang they’ll say they scraped it from that who scored it from this who bought it off so, and after four or five connections the list’ll always end with the Pin. But I’ll becha you got every rat in town together and said ’show your hands’ if [...]
Scripture is God’s true, perfect, delightful, inspired and sufficient word to the world. While every Christian I know affirms all of this, in practice the sufficiency of Scripture seems to be getting far less attention, and I am convinced that it is the most important aspect of Scripture for the church in the 21st century [...]
It’s the weekend, which means I don’t typically blog. It has become a tradition to post a couple pics I took during the week for the weekend. Steve also does it, and now a bunch of others do it too. To see all of the bloggers who are taking pics check out the Friday Photo [...]
This year I have been to the SBC, Together for the Gospel Conference, The Founders Conference and am set up to hit the Desiring God Conference in Sept. Even our small, local Association is having a leadership conference featuring Darrin Patrick, Daniel Montgomery and others. There appears to be an increase in gatherings worth attending, [...]
This past weekend the small town we planted our church in had its big annual festival: people come from all over for the parade, rides, games, food, vendors, prize animals, etc. What makes this sort of thing so important is that the community gathers together. I say this because in the bedroom community our church [...]
A couple of pictures from the past week. The door is from a fantastic Chicago neighborhood my Dad and I recently visited. The sepia photo of my daughter was taken at a music festival our church band played at last weekend. Be sure to check out Steve’s Friday photos, the Flickr Group for Friday Photos, [...]
This blog averages 450 or more unique readers a day. Sometimes the number is in the upper 500’s; on Sundays it drops to the low 300’s. Today I had over 1000 unique readers without putting up a new post. Why? Kevin Cawley’s “My Del.icio.us World” post referenced my Top Ten Tuesday list, which was linked [...]
I am late on this, but I just found out. Derek Webb will be launching FreeDerekWebb.com on Sept. 1st where you will be able to download his album, Mockingbird, for free in its entirety. It is a fantastic album that deals with “many sensitive issues including poverty, war, and the basic ethics by which we [...]
I have decided to put up a Top Ten list each Tuesday - at least until I run out of ideas. On a recent train ride into the city I compiled a pretty decent list of potential subjects. For today, my Top Ten Books on Personal Piety.
Note: My “Top Tens” are somewhat relative. In this [...]