Between the Trees

This morning I locked my keys in my apartment. It took me five minutes to figure out how to break in and successfully re-emerge from my apartment, keys in hand.
I think it should be more difficult than that.

 With several good friends moving away in the next few months, this is a song I’ve been thinking about a lot the past few days:
His Love Can Never Fail
1. I do not ask to see the way
My feet will have to tread;
But only that my soul may feed
Upon the living Bread.
‘Tis better far that I [...]

Pray
Fast
Read your bible
Be obedient
Go to church on Sunday
Go to church on Wednesdays
Go to church every night
Evangelize the lost
Disciple believers
Memorize scripture
Get good theology
Do away with theology
Be relevant
Be irrelevant
Be reverent
Be irreverent
Have a really good rock band lead worship
Have a celebrity preach a message
Share testimonies
Have an altar call
Have a big response to your altar call
Follow up on your [...]

As long as we’re commenting on Jeremiah Wright, here’s one other thought to go along with Eric’s post from earlier today: In light of 400 years of injustice, oppression, racism, disenfranchisement, theft, kidnapping, slavery, rape, segregation, lynchings, murder, and vicious beatings, perhaps his anger is justified, even if the terms he uses to express it [...]

I’m sick to death of hearing about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Most of my frustration comes from the fact that it’s simply no big deal. So Obama went to his church for twenty years. Are politics really so demeaned today that the only meaningful level of discourse is guilt by association? If so, let me [...]

I still have two weeks left, but one can dream, right?
Any suggestions?

The Christian Mind - Harry Blamires
Liberation Theology Anthology
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Disciplines of Grace - Jerry Bridges
Created in God’s Image - Anthony Hoekema
Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
The Imitation of Christ - Thomas a Kempis
As [...]

Earlier today I saw a Catholic friend of mine talking to a homeless man by the campus library. I always see this kid talking to homeless people. And when I walk by it’s never fluffy conversations about the weather or premeditated attempts to convert them. They always seem to be talking about their stories, how [...]

It is remarkable how we love hearing the prophet speak against the Babylonians and Assyrians, listen to the condemnation of those who worship Caesar and Sodomites, yet when he turns and says “And woe to you, oh Israel” we plug our ears and start looking for big stones. We love it when the Lord’s rod [...]

Much has been made of the recent interest in Reformed theology among twenty-somethings. Since I suppose I’m one of these twenty-somethings, albeit maybe not a poster child for being “Young, Restless, Reformed”, I thought I’d offer three reasons I think my generation is interested in Reformed theology, and three dangers which I think accompany it.
In [...]