From May 2004:
OK, I confess…on a recent Sunday I disobeyed the worship leader.
I guess I never realized how bossy contemporary worship leaders can be until I became one myself and started really paying attention to how other leaders led. One of the first things that struck me was how many directive phrases were used: “sit [...]

I’m interrupting my blogging hiatus for a post I think even my LSW will welcome…
Here is an annotated HDTV screen shot of the black light map Locke saw in last night’s LOST episode. And here’s an actual color-enhanced shot of the same.
It is, as I guessed when I saw it last night, a map of [...]

I’m continuing my “fast” from regular posting to devote this time to my dear wife, who will be leaving this weekend to spend a month in Maine assisting with the birth of our fifth grandchild. During this time I’m bringing back some “old school” Sacred Journey posts you may not have seen the first time [...]

From April 2004:
…and I don’t want to work outside.
That line from an old Derek Webb song (Stupid Kid) has been all too literally true for me. I hate yard work. To me, it is sheer drudgery. I hate being sweaty and dirty. I dislike the smell and feel of dirt. Men who seem to live [...]

From March 2004:
(Note: This coming Thursday night is “Culture Night” at Westminster Theological Seminary. We have student from over 30 different countries in our little school, and one night a year they get to show us life in their homelands. Both last year and this year I’ve been tempted to set up a New Jersey [...]

From January 2004
Note: The opening line of this Post from the Past really marks time for me, as we are now expecting our fifth grandchild in the next few weeks! 
With the birth of my third grandchild imminent, and a fourth from my younger daughter due this summer, my thoughts are much on my dear Long [...]

I’m taking a hiatus from this blog for at least a week, maybe more. (Yes, I am posting this just two days after joining another blog.) At the end of this next week I’ll be driving Karyn up to Maine for the birth of our fifth grandchild, due in early April. Karyn will stay there [...]

Yeah…right.
For some time now I’ve been intrigued with the idea of the group blog. I’ve done this solo gig for over two years now. Though I’m far from tired of Sacred Journey, I can also see the advantage of a team approach. So I sat by the phone and waited. Gregg from Common Grounds Online [...]

A while back we had a brief discussion here over a plea for a “new kind of seminary” from Dr. John Frame (formerly of WTS, now at RTS Orlando). In that essay, Frame traced the history of modern seminaries back to the 19th century, where respectable American Protestants wanted to have a proper professional school [...]

By now all of my readers associated with Westminster Theological Seminary know about professor Alan Grove’s diagnosis of terminal cancer. You also know about the blog he and his wife are keeping. I’m posting about it again in order to urge those of you who have no idea who Al is to go read that [...]