Month March 2007

Chasing the kingdom

I think that Matthew 13.44-46 contains two of my very favorite parables of Christ. They’re both joyful comparisons of the kingdom of heaven. They’re so compelling, so inviting, and so deeply challenging that you find yourself meditating on them long…

Unexpected humility

You’re cruising along through your day, trying to do something productive, and suddenly your day has an abrupt shift of momentum. The immediacy of your detour into grandeur is shocking. Gratitude showers like a sudden summer storm. Many of you…

Your cellphone and you

What do you do with your cellphone? And before you answer that, I can’t help thinking about the latest Cingular commercial where one of the nerdy cell phone representatives phone is set on vibrate, and he looks up with this…

A parent freak

So I’m taking the kids to school this morning, after a stop at the Village Bakery (which should be a daily stop in the a.m. but usually isn’t because a ten year-old and seven year-old aren’t very motiveate-able that early).…

Right to sue?

Wade tackles the inconsistency in the Southern Baptist Convention these days over the issue of Christians bringing lawsuits against one another. I think he is overly generous, for he does not begin to mention the vast amounts of lawsuits the…

Tackling runaway evolution

“The theory of evolution has become the central unifying concept of biology and is a critical component of many related scientific disciplines.” (Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition). Creationism is not “against” modern…

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