Here’s a quick quote from a recent sermon called “Joseph: Man of Quiet Nobility” by Bryan Loritts of Fellowship Memphis Church. I think he is quoting someone else, but I can’t remember who. It’s a terrific sermon on what we can learn from Joseph about what it means to be a Godly man. Adolescence is [...]
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Adolescence
Posted in culture, quotes on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lucky
Posted in culture, gospel, heart, quotes, world view on January 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I just read a column by Jon Foreman (of Switchfoot) called “This Is What Luck Smells Like“. Foreman talks about how being next to a guy who smells bad on a transAtlantic flight leads him to meditating on how thankful he should be that he can smell. And how we choose to see our lives, “Maybe [...]
Grace and the City
Posted in culture, missional church, why i love memphis, world view on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I watched a video today by Tim Keller called “Grace and the City”. It is a really interesting discussion of what a City is and what that means for us as Christians. He covers alot of ground in 40 minutes, from how Christians engage the culture to the basic characteristics of a City to a Biblical [...]
Guilty Pleasures
Posted in Art, culture, quotes, world view on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a quote from an article by Jon Foreman (of Switchfoot) called “Outside the Fences” . “Only in humility can we begin to find the beauty in everything. Do you have the barefaced wonder to drift outside the lines? If you dare, you could rise up to be the shameless architect of the unknown, charting [...]
Brave New World
Posted in culture, idolatry, world view on November 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Jason e-mailed this to me earlier in the week, and I thought it was well worth passing along. It’s important to note that this book was written in 1986 (!), long before DirecTV, reality shows, etc. and the explosion of cell phones and the internet. His comment about the truth drowning in a sea of [...]
Apologetics Resources
Posted in culture, gospel, interpreting Scripture, world view on November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an e-mail I received from a friend about a news service being offered by Ravi Zacharias ministries. Their website and daily podcasts are goldmines. RZIM Zacharias Trust and the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics are launching a ‘breaking news’ service aimed at providing up to the minute Christian responses to public challenges to the [...]
Couldn’t Be Happier
Posted in culture, gospel, music on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We went to see “Wicked” at the Orpheum last week. If you’re not familiar with it, it is a musical that tells the ”untold story of the witches of Oz”. I won’t try to explain the whole story, but there is a song towards the end of the show called “Thank Goodness” sung by Glinda, the “good” [...]
A Halloween Prayer
Posted in culture, Prayer on October 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Once upon a time, Halloween (much like Christmas) was a day set aside by a pope in response to a popular existing pagan holiday on that day. More specifically, the day was All Saints Day, which was moved from May 13 to November 1 in order to steer the celebration from a pagan emphasis to [...]
New versus Old, or Versus Ourselves?
Posted in culture, quotes on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One take on the age-old contemporary/traditional war: “I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young [...]
Fun with 666 (no, really)
Posted in Bible, culture on October 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The number of the beast (or really, “the number of a man” associated with the beast) is, rather strangely, one of the most famous items in the NT–many people who could not name the four gospels know about 666. There are some good comic riffs on this number floating around the web; I’ve taken some, [...]
