Between the Trees

If I could pick one contemporary film maker to meet and spend a day talking to about life, art, meaning, and story… I think it’d be Sam Mendes.
Mendes, whose first film American Beauty garnered well-deserved critical praise and won five Academy Awards, is now back in the spotlight for his latest work, Revolutionary Road, starring [...]

“Whatever man you meet who needs your aid, you have no reason to refuse him help.  Say, “He is a stranger”; but the Lord has given him a mark that ought to be familiar to you, by virtue of the fact that he forbids you to despise your own flesh.  Say, “He is contemptible and [...]

I was recently visiting with a co-worker when out of the blue she informed me that she had a big struggle with Christianity (being in seminary evidently makes you the go-to guy for this sort of thing, no matter how un-seminary-ish you are at work.) She just couldn’t see how Christians could believe in the [...]

Proof? I shouldn’t go to sites like this off some random link when I’m both ill and tired.
Yes, they really do have “early church fathers” on their list of false teachers. Why? Because they were Catholic. Oh, and Charles Spurgeon was “ecumenical.” Doesn’t the word just reek of brimstone?
That said, I am now going to [...]

Outstanding video from Matt Chandler from the Desiring God Pastor’s Conference:

ht: Internet Monk

From the Wikipedia article on Lord of the Rings.
“Even within Tolkien’s literary group, The Inklings, reviews were mixed. Hugo Dyson complained loudly at its readings, and Christopher Tolkien records Dyson as “lying on the couch, and lolling and shouting and saying, ‘Oh God, no more Elves.’”
Have I ever mentioned before how much I love wikipedia?

No time to write anything substantial for the blog this week, so I’m just linking to a column that ran today on Rick Santorum, the former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania.

I’m totally going to buy this book when it hits shelves, if only on principle.

Last year I was attending a workshop at the L’Abri conference in which Jerram Barrs shared the above quote that a child had said after one of Jerram’s workshops on children’s literature.
Jerram’s response was to say, “We are.” Point being - our notions of God’s kingdom fully present should be of every good and perfect [...]

Here’s the audio of Eric’s sermon. If you weren’t able to be at Grace on Sunday, download it and listen.
Or if you were there, go listen to it again. It will do your soul good.
Eric, I’m proud of you and glad to call you brother.