Archive for October, 2007

Friday Photo

Friday, October 26th, 2007

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 [...]

Six Rules of Cultural Engagement

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

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 [...]

Wassup Baby?

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

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. [...]

Leaving a Church?

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

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 Pt. 2

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

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 [...]

920 reasons to eat at home

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

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.

Friday Photo: The Loop

Friday, October 12th, 2007

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.

Ryken on Cultural Transformation

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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 [...]

Updates

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

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. [...]

Friday Photo: Beirut in Chicago

Friday, October 5th, 2007

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 [...]