Year 2006

A tribute to ghost stories…

It’s scary movie month on TV. Halloween is around the corner. Stumbled across this website that you might enjoy: Top 10 Best Ghost Photos of all time. Now, Carolyn has taken thousands of pictures, and the scariest thing that’s ever…

New blogs to stop by…

Not that any of us need any more blogs to add to Bloglines or their reading list, but just for the heck of it, here are some to skip across the pond: Steve McCoy at Reformissionary Persistent Illusion – before…

Southern Baptists dead?

We are dying as a convention. So writes Wade Burleson, trustee of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, in his blog Grace and Truth to you. While probably an engine of hyperbole, his observations and conclusions are…

Oooo. Oooo. Oooo!

I’m more excited than Arnold Horshack. All of the conference messages from the 2006 Annual Desiring God Conference are available as free downloads here! The theme for this year’s conference (which I wish I’d gone to) was The Supremacy of…

The home of the free…

It’s 8:40 p.m. Sunday night. I’m laboring to change all my web sites over to a new server. Carolyn is washing clothes. The kids are supposed to be drifting off to sleep. However, drifting out of Adelyn’s room is a…

Jesus!

I love Jerry’s commentary from a recent This Is That entry: If we cannot boldly confess Christ in our present “relatively unthreatening” circumstances, how do you think we might do in the face of much higher stakes?

On reading Christian books…

Jim has been posting quotes from Organic Churchby Neil Cole (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2005), and Mark raised an interesting point in a comment he made there: In our contemporary culture of fast-paced, attention-deficit, multi-tasking life, unfortunately a lot of people feel…

Today’s lack of ambition

Featured Post from the Past: Perhaps it’s because I just read Hewitt’s book about Christian ambition, or perhaps it’s because this epiphany of realization is so bright that I gotta wear shades, but the article called Get a Haircut and…