Just want to record for the sheer extravagant joy of it that this weekend I had opportunity to…
1) Enjoy the first of three Peterson Gran Reserva cigars sent to me for my birthday by daughter Sarah and her husband John.
2) Download the latest Andrew Peterson (no relation to the cigars!) album (Far Country) as well [...]

The following is a piece I wrote as a guest blogger for my friend Michaela’s blog This Beautiful Mess:
As the tragedy and chaos that has been the aftermath of Katrina unfolded on my TV screen these past two weeks, it made me reflect on what it means to stare death in [...]

When I was in high school in the ’70s, Josh McDowell’s book Evidence that Demands a Verdict rocketed to the top of the Christian book charts. It’s updated versions still sell well today. Not really a “book,” EtDaV is actually a 400+ page outline of the documentation behind McDowell’s seminar lectures.
I can still [...]

The much-discussed and over-analyzed Emerging Church movement doesn’t like to call itself a movement. Movements usually involve dynamic leadership and linear, well-defined goals. Instead, Emerging folk prefer to call what they are about a conversation. If movements are like essays, then conversations are like, well, conversations. They flow freely between two or more people; there’s [...]

Oh yes…I plan to be there! Bill Mallonee has become my all-time favorite singer-songwriter, someone who has never written a song I didn’t like (and hes’ written tons!). I’ve seen him before solo, but never with his legendary band Vigilantes of Love, just recently re-formed.
Click the poster above for more info on this show and [...]

Today is the first day of classes for our second year at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. I feel like I’m in first grade again…the same excitement and jitters. Last night I had this strange urge to go out and buy a lunch box (I already have one…but does it have the latest cool action [...]

Taking full advantage of near-perfect Labor Day weather, about 15 of us from Liberti Church set out on what we billed the First Annual Liberti Freedom Ride. We rode the beautiful Schuylkill River Trail from the Philadelphia Art Museum to Valley Forge National Park and back, a little over 40 miles round trip.

The trail [...]

Maybe I’m missing the boat here.
Maybe I’m not as smart as Paul of paulstips.com. Like me, Paul has a blog. Like me, he occasionally dispenses what seem to be words of wisdom but really are just common sense.
The difference is that a bunch of people pay $50 a year to get all of Paul’s [...]

Want to know why I make a bit of fuss and feathers over Reformed Scrabble Players like Ron the other day, who do hit and run missions on blogs like this from time to time? Am I just cranky? Sometimes yes…but here’s a reason that hits deep in my heart:
Click here. [EDIT: At the time [...]

From b-wildered, the blog of my friend Dr. Bill Wilder:
A Prayer for the Gulf Coast
In meditating upon the damage and suffering left in the wake of Katrina, a number of Scriptures came to mind, followed by a prayer uttered in their light…