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If you are not able to attend the Gospel Coalition conference near Chicago over the next few days, be sure to check out the sessions made available online.You can watch each of the main sessions live via streaming video. Or you can download the video or audio of each session within a few days of [...]

I cannot resist the temptation to comment on a singing sensation sweeping the internet this week.  On the show “Britain’s Got Talent” (a Simon Cowell produced UK version of American Idol), Susan Boyle–a frumpy, middle-aged, unemployed resident of a small village in Scotland–made her singing debut before a hostile audience and three judges, including the [...]

Today is a special day in my family. It’s not only the birthday of one of my sisters, it’s also the birthday of my great-, great-, great-, great-, great-grandfather. His name was Dozier Thornton.
Dozier was born April 14, 1755 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. From what we can tell, he served in the North Carolina Militia [...]

(Warning: this blog post has absolutely nothing to do with theology.)
Everyone is trying to save money these days. This week has introduced two brand new ways into my life.
First, about 1.5 weeks ago we heard a bird stuck in the duct work that connects to one of our bathroom exhaust fans. So after about a [...]

If I’m going to quote “The Princess Bride” earlier in the week, why not go ahead and site this memorable line (among many) from “Napoleon Dynamite“?
Here are several other links that I thought were spot on, reinforcing what I’ve been trying to articulate this week.
Tony Reinke has a great post on what “glory” really means.
And [...]

During the month of November
Is the time we most remember
Buckled shoes, the first Thanksgiving
Meal, and white and red man living
Happily near Plymouth township.
 
But it was through winter’s hardship
Grievous, our pilgrim fathers came—
Sustained and held by that same
Hand which had guided them through throes
Of stormy seas and Saul-like foes
Unscathed.  They found the hand of God
In Indian [...]

Pic 1: No problem when you aren’t going anywhere…
Pic 2: Robbie is in his element…
Pic 3: On the move and proving that missionaries are multi-taskers…

When first approached by Rob Howell, a missionary in Tanzania, about the possibility of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, my gut response was an immediate, “Yes, I’ll do it,” without giving real thought to the consequences of such a decision.  In retrospect, I didn’t think he’d ask me to do something impossible, and I knew he had already [...]

This ain’t no cheap seat. I’m sure you’ve got a pretty decent view from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. According to my iMac’s dictionary, Kilimanjaro is “an extinct volcano in northern Tanzania. It has twin peaks, the higher of which, Kibo [Uhuru?] (19,340 feet; 5,895 m), is the highest mountain in Africa.” Jon is standing [...]

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This weekend seemed like an appropriate time to recommend a couple excellent Bible story books for children. First, the books. Then the reason for the appropriateness.
Pastor David Helm has written The Big Picture Story Bible (illustrated by Gail Schoonmaker), which traces several major themes through the Scripture. Building on Graeme Goldsworthy’s “Gospel and Kingdom,” (part [...]

Since, I’ve been blogging all week about our Saturday morning discussion group, I thought I’d bring back to the blog a bit of this week’s discussion at Tim Hortons to wrap up that series of posts. (For those who missed the article by Tim Keller, click here.)
Sign of a good discussion. Part of [...]

When my father was a young man, he and his brother-in-law were walking through some trails in the mountains of North Carolina. They weren’t dressed for hiking. My dad was just giving my uncle a tour of the area near where we lived.
When they came to a large creek, my dad simply started to wade [...]

Knowing Sin; Knowing Redemption (from Genesis 3:1-7 with a nod to C. S. Lewis’ Voyage of the Dawn Treader).
Once there lived a mighty king. He was old and wise but still very strong. Even as an old man he could outrun the fastest of his soldiers and bend a bow made of bronze. [...]