Between the Trees

If you dedicate the entire back of your SUV to an oversized “hang up and drive” bumper sticker, it kind of looks bad when you almost swerve into me while talking on your cell phone.

I remember, growing up, being taught how to share the gospel. We’ll not get into all that went into that (or failed to) for the moment; what I want to talk about is one particular thing I was told. I clearly remember, after being trained to convince people that yes, they really were sinners and [...]

Steve McCoy, one of my favorite bloggers, recently wrote an excellent post explaining how he hits the metaphorical refresh button when he is feeling stuck or depressed. I thought it was a great list and wanted to pass it on to anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.
Anyone have any ideas they would add to Steve’s [...]

And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there, but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.” Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor [...]

If anyone is interested, this is what my office in the new apartment looks like. I just cleaned my desk, which accounds for the strange wood-like thing showing through where the piles of paper usually belong.

For those of you who have never read it before, I would highly reccomend checking out Michael Spencer’s essay Wretched Urgency, especially if you happen to be a human being. Fantastic essay, I encountered it a while back and just re-read it recently. Go and do likewise.

I’m starting a new category on here for posts related to the end-times. Something I’ve been realizing recently is that Christianity is oriented around two events - the death and resurrection of Jesus and his second coming.
A year ago I don’t think I would’ve been comfortable with this because I was still going through my [...]

*Note: I’m about to use lots of non-gender-neutral language. I’m doing this because it’s biblical; women and men are of courser equally included in the idea of being “adopted as sons” in Scripture.*
The church Elizabeth and I have been attending since moving to St. Louis has a huge congregational emphasis on adoption. By my count, [...]

I mean this to provoke conversation, not be my final word, and on some of these political questions I should probably mention that Jake and I have pretty different ideas. That said, here’s my question: in politics, we often use the plank/speck issue to criticize the Religious Right. As in, “How dare you try to [...]

“Remember, however, that to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass, and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years. Such, it seemed, was the joy of man, either in elfland or on earth; the happiness depended [...]