Archive for January, 2009

Tim Keller in Nashville this Wednesday

Monday, January 26th, 2009

If you are in the Nashville area this Wednesday and can make the time you should consider seeing Tim Keller speak on The Prodigal God at Christ Presbyterian. Here’s the blurb :

Newsweek has called him a “C.S.Lewis for the twenty-first century”, and his latest book is based on Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son. In this familiar story, Keller challenges both devout Christians and skeptics to see Christianity in a whole new way as Jesus reveals God’s prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. “I have seen more people encouraged, enlightened, and helped by this passage when I explained the true meaning of it, than by any other text.”

And drop me a line if you’re going. I plan on being there.

Details and flyers here.

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Advent

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

I know, the Advent season has passed. But when you don’t post for over 3 months I think you deserve a little leeway. :)

We typically do Advent at church but this year we decided to do it as a family at home as well. And even though we have done it at church I’m still kind of a noob about the whole thing. Comes from growing up in the CofC where we’re anti any semblance of liturgy. But anyway, I think we’ll do it again. It was good to be able to have the kids participate in the lighting of the candles and good to have time to explain things. It was good for me as well. Perhaps I’m getting old but I’m wanting some rhythm to mark the time by.

I’ll leave you with this song. It was going through my head all during Advent and needs to be shared. Not only has my Deliverer come but he will come again. There’s a lot of hope in that.

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Just mostly dead

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What’s that?
Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

Like poor Westley, I think our blog is on the verge of being miscategorized. But there may still be some life left in it yet. All we need now is a chocolate-coated miracle pill…

I’d like to say that we were on sabbatical or fasting technology or some such spiritual gobbledygook as that. I can’t speak for the others, but the truth is that I just had nothing to say. Well, that I could put on the blog anyway. There were some choice things I could have said but discretion and all that.

What about 2009? How about an honest I don’t know? I think the blogging part of my brain(it’s in there, really) has atrophied and I’ll need to figure out how to use it again. I want to keep it up. I think it’s good for me. But we’ll see what the future holds.

Oh, Happy New Year!

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