Volume of Knowledge vs. Volume of Words
Oooooh! It’s hard to see yourself in such a quote, isn’t it? But so good too–helps me in my continual goal of speaking LESS. Courtesy of Pastor JollyBlogger: “Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue …
Director of Training Position Available at Peacemaker Ministries
(Just received this announcement and asked for permission to post it for you all. How great it would be if one of you moved to beautiful Montana! ) ———- Director of Training Position Available Peacemaker Ministries (PM) is an international ministry based in Billings, Montana that exists to assist and equip Christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically. …
Holding Pattern
Yesterday I felt as though I were in a holding pattern all day long. I teetered between diligence with my duties and complete slackerhood — and ended up, as usual, somewhere in between. Towards the end of the afternoon, I did figure out one portion of my sense of being on the edge of something … Wednesday morning, we go …
Thoughts on Parenting
I was asked to jot down a few “thoughts on parenting” for an upcoming baby shower and this morning I thought, “Hey! Those might be a decent blog post.” So here you are. 1. Dr. Dan Doriani (Covenant Seminary) reminds us all that ‘parenting is simply big sinners helping little sinners.’ I constantly think about this fact when I interact …
Tempted to Morbid Introspection — But INSTEAD …
This morning when I woke up, my first thoughts were DARK: 1. I kept thinking of the mean words that an atheist wrote in a comment to our little “Books of the Bible” video: I felt badly for him (what kind of person trolls around YouTube looking for Christian videos just so he can write mean words?). Plus, just the …
Truman and Hume (HT: Somber and Dull)
I couldn’t resist popping over to a blog named “Somber and Dull” when TulipGirl referenced it in a post. I’m glad I did! I’ll definitely give it some time in my “provisional blog reading” favorites and see if it lands in my (not too long) list of blogs I read regularly. These two posts on President Truman and a man …
Extra Grace Required
Lydia Browback posted recently on women who are “EGR” — Extra Grace Required: “One category of “widows and orphans” that’s easy to overlook is the socially poor. In one of my former circles, we referred to them as EGRs—extra grace required. I look back on that now and cringe. What made us think that we weren’t EGRs ourselves? The very …
Life and Teachings of Jesus
TakeYourVitaminZ linked to a fantastic teaching by one of my favorite seminary professors, Dr. Dan Doriani: The Life and Teachings of Jesus I encourage you to check it out!
To Do Lists are Never Done
How fun to read C.J. Mahanney’s blog this morning (The To-Do Lists Are Never Done) because Sophia Grace and I were JUST talking about this fact yesterday when we made her little to-do list for the day (and one checkbox was left un-checked at the close of the day): Now if I could only listen to my own counsel, eh!? …
Consistently Attracting the Irreligious?
TulipGirl quoted Tim Keller’s “The Prodigal God” today and it has me thinking, oh, about a zillion thoughts as I sit here playing/working with Sophia: ‘Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not …