A photo I took of my son over the weekend wound up on Chicago Public Radio’s website last Monday. That’s always cool! Around the same time last year they used a photo of my daughter taken at the same location. Anyway, this Friday Photo was taken in honor of my wife - who was out [...]
What do people mean when they say “cultural engagement?” That phrase is often spurned as if it means thoughtless syncretism between the church and culture. In my reading it rarely means that. It is certainly not what I mean. I am a fan of that three-fold approach to engaging culture: reject what is evil, receive [...]
My wife Jen is expecting our third child! We have been praying for years that God would give us more children, and he has helped us to remain patient until he gave us the desire of our hearts! Jen is 7 weeks along which means our newest looks something like the photo to the right. [...]
I finally got around to reading Mark Dever’s excellent little book, What is a Healthy Church? I’ll have a post up on the whole book soon, but I wanted to put up a couple of things he had to say. First, “If you’re thinking about leaving a church.”
Before You Decide to Leave
1. Pray.
2. Let your [...]
Unplugging is going well, but is also proving to be a ongoing process. My new approach to staying organized, a hack on GTD, is going very well and is a better fit than the Hispter PDA I was previously using. Have also been finding ways to leave the laptop behind, relegating my interaction with it [...]
Yeah, this is a great idea. 920 calories in a breakfast burrito from Hardees. Want to know what’s inside this 10″ flour tortilla? 2 loaded omelets (liquid eggs, crumbled sausage, diced ham, bacon bits, shredded cheddar), 5 harshrounds, 1 1/2 oz. sausage gravy, 1/2 oz. shredded cheddar.
Both shots were taken in the loop last week. The bottom photo is featured at the Chicagoist web zine.
Check out the black and white at my photoblog.
Over at the Reformation 21 blog Phil Ryken provides a concise and helpful statement regarding the issue of cultural redemption.
Recently our friends at 9Marks Ministries wrote to ask:
“Does Scripture call the local church (by which we mean the local church as the local church, not as individual Christians) to the work of cultural transformation? For [...]
I finally ran a 5k (3.1 miles) in under 30 minutes. That was one of my many short-term goals in running. Now I am upping my miles so that the 5 mile run is not the long run of the week, but the “easy” run. I’m down a solid 25 lbs now and feeling great. [...]
Yesterday I met Steve in the Loop. We ate lunch, talked about ministry, took some photos and then headed out for the much anticipated Beirut concert. Steve introduced me to Beirut when their first album came out. They quickly became my favorite band. I’m not a music critic, nor am I a music guru like [...]