Posted in General on Jul 22nd, 2010
I used to set up chairs in church alongside Kevin Mather, before the accident where he was hit on a bicycle by a truck traveling 60mph. That happened just over a year ago, and he’s been busy on a long and tough road to recovery since then, with frequent visits to the hospital in Northridge (where [...]
Posted in General on Jul 21st, 2010
“All those expressions of unworthiness which Christian practice puts into the believer’s mouth seem to the outer world like the degraded and insincere grovellings of a sycophant before a tyrant, or at best a façon de parler like the self-depreciation of a Chinese gentleman when he calls himself “this course and illiterate person”. In reality, however, [...]
Posted in General on Jul 21st, 2010
A few things that riding a motorcycle has in common with life: You are where you look: focus on where you want to go next. It’s important to know who and what is behind you, but you cannot let it become your focus. Lose your focus and you’ll have some close calls or something worse. [...]
Posted in General on Jul 20th, 2010
“Christianity is supposedly a limit to personal growth and potential because it constrains our freedom to choose our own beliefs and practices. Immanuel Kant defined an enlightened human being as one who trusts in his or her own power of thinking, rather than in authority or tradition (27). This resistance to authority in moral matters is now [...]
Posted in General on Jul 19th, 2010
From the DesiringGod.org website: The Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, LA, is the largest and historically one of the bloodiest maximum-security prisons in the USA. In 2009, Desiring God and John Piper were invited to Angola to learn about prison life, hear from men who have been radically changed by the gospel, and minister to [...]
Posted in General on Jul 8th, 2010
Today marks the 269th anniversary of Jonathan Edwards preaching his most famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” in Enfield, CT. I’m reading through it after pastor Rick Holland’s wife Kim posted a tweet mentioning it. Though I won’t try to summarize it because I just can’t do it justice, the point Edwards [...]
