Not sure if you’ve heard the news yet, but the Imperial Fleet has paid a visit to California. Specifically, San Francisco. Yep, San Francisco. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than in San Francisco!
It only gets worse: they brought the Death Star. No doubt due to some Jedi or [...]
Prof. Tremper Longman’s thoughts and comments on his recent trip to China are worth quoting in full:
In the past year I had the incredible privilege of teaching a course on Torah and Wisdom at the University of Peking in Beijing and then to travel a few months later to Hong Kong to speak at an [...]
This deserves a spot front and center on our weblog: Trevin Wax interviews my hands-down favorite Christian music “group,” Red Mountain Church Music, hailing from Birmingham, Alabama.
Although I believe they’ve composed their own stuff, Red Mountain Church Music is primarily known for, as Trevin describes, “tak[ing] old hymn texts and put[ting] them to new music.” [...]
So, I have been bitten by the bug to get textile.el working again. Hopefully the bug won’t kill me.
Pastor Rob sends me plain-text outlines (well, they’re plain text, but written in Word; he doesn’t use the outline editor that’s built-in), and it’s my job to turn them into HTML. I spend 5-10 minutes a week doing that. So today I spent 90 minutes and taught Emacs how to do it. [...]
Other people may like to answer questions about themselves in order to help others better know them. Or just for fun. But, preening peacock that I am, I can’t resist doing a Q&A about myself because I love talking about me, myself, and I! (HT: Lisa Nunley.)
1. What time did you get up this morning?
Today, [...]
This is unnerving on many levels.
I agree with Dr. White: it would be hard to tell, if the sound were off, whether this was a conversion to Islam or the sinner’s prayer.
If you don’t already own it, I highly recommend purchasing What God Has Always Wanted: The Bible’s Big Idea from Genesis through Revelation by Charles Boyd and illustrated by Dennas Davis. Especially if you have kids or are a Sunday school teacher. Or if you play a similar or related role in children’s lives. It’s [...]
So, I’ve now lost 64 pounds since the beginning of the year, and 13 pounds in July alone (making it my second-biggest weight-loss month, and the largest weight-loss month since starting Atkins). I did lose quickly on another diet, but I couldn’t maintain any energy on that diet; I was barely making it through [...]
Just felt an earthquake here at work. Apparently it’s a 5.8 5.4. Right as it was happening, and in fact right after it happened, everyone stood there frozen, in shock, either with their eyes glazed over, or asking what to do. (BTW, no one I saw dove underneath a desk or headed towards a doorway.) [...]
I would love to know why there was a pack of cards (hard to see here, thanks to my dreadful cell phone camera) scattered across the grass and the seat at the bus stop yesterday afternoon.
From Horatius Bonar:
Perhaps much of our slow progress in the walk of faith is to be traced to our overlooking the love of the Spirit.
We do not deal with Him, for strength and advancement, as one who really loves us, and longs to bless us, and delights to help our infirmities (Rom 8:26). We regard [...]
Friend, have you had no date of late? Or have you had dates galore but found them each a bore? Were you looking for Mr or Mrs Right, only to have to tell ‘em to fly a kite!
Did you think you’d met “the one”? Was the first date oh such fun? Full of laughter, not [...]
From Bryan Chapell:
One day not too long ago, I went to the hospital to visit my friend Eric, who was dying of a brain tumor. Months of fighting the cancer with chemo and prayer had seemed futile. I came to encourage Eric and had no idea how powerful his ministry would be to me. In [...]
Would we know that the major chords were sweet,
If there were no minor key?
Would the painter’s work be fair to our eyes,
without shade on land or sea?
Would we know the meaning of happiness,
Would we feel that the day was bright,
If we’d never known what it was to grieve,
Nor gazed on the dark of night?
Excerpted from [...]
Those who know me well probably already know that I’m a big fan of comics and cartoons and comic books and animations and cartoon or comic strips and all that stuff which most adults would likely relegate to the annals of their childhood. So, for what it’s worth, if anything, I thought I’d give you [...]
By Patrick Chan
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Tagged Animation, Anime, Cartoons, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Comics, humor, Just for Fun, movies, Personal, television, TV
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Mad props to the ‘propriate peeps for such a powerful presentation (which is also available on YouTube):
Be sure to check out more videos from Student Life (e.g. How Does He Love Us?, His Grace, and for some lighthearted physical comedy, Failing Love: Cupid). There are loads of (mostly) good videos to go through.
The following is from Sinclair Ferguson (whose Scottish accent is at least as cool as Alistair Begg’s if not more so, IMHO):
[W]here we cannot understand we can still trust.
This requires a deliberate commitment of the mind. That hurts when our natural instinct is to let our minds and emotions dwell on our pain, loss, and [...]
By Patrick Chan
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Tagged Benjamin, death, Genesis, Hebrew, Jacob, Quotations, Rachel, Sinclair Ferguson, Suffering, Trial, Trials
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The following is from Amy Carmichael:
And shall I pray thee change thy will, my Father?
Until it be according unto mine?
But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather
I pray thee blend my human will with thine.
I pray thee hush the hurrying, eager longing,
I pray thee soothe the pangs of keen desire –
See in my quiet [...]
Lisa Nunley recommended checking out this great ministry called The Shepherd’s Crook Ministries. So I did. I’ve been browsing through it, and it truly does look excellent! There are a couple of very moving testimonies and other stories to read. And lots of photos which endear one to the children as well. Please do [...]
How true!
From C.H. Spurgeon:
‘I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.’ (Hosea 2:14)
The goodness of God sees us allured by sin, and it resolves to try upon us the more powerful allurements of love. Do we not remember when the Lover of our souls first cast a spell [...]
One of the best comic books ever is now a soon to be released feature film (and, if I’m not mistaken, the song sounds like it’s sung by the Smashing Pumpkins — a personal fave music band, or at least they used to be back in the day):
(In case you can’t view the above teaser [...]
Jonathan Edwards tells the story of a young woman whom Christ lovingly saved after having lived a life of debauchery. Shortly thereafter, her health failed, and after a slow and painful process, the young woman herself died. Edwards recounts:
She had great longings to die, that she might be with Christ; which increased till she [...]
Like the new look? I saw Shades of Gray at the Sandbox Design Competition and I thought that it would be a nice addition to the site.
