A couple of quotes on cheese – enjoy!
“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheeses?” (Charles de Gaulle)
“Blessed are the cheesemakers for they are pure of heart.” (Monty Python)
“Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.” (T.S. Eliot)
“The poets have been mysteriously silent on [...]
Archive for July, 2006
"That’s Really Cheesy"
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Words to a Barber
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
How can I pray more effectively? That question is asked quite a few times – prayer can be somewhat mysterious after all.
(Personally, I wish it would be asked more than it is. The questions pastors get more often have to do with the time and date of the next potluck, why we sang [...]
Website Recommendation
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I came across a website today that I have to pass along – www.churchmarketingsucks.com. The purpose of the blog is “to frustrate, educate and motivate the church to communicate with uncompromising clarity, the truth of Jesus Christ.” Enjoy!
Submission – Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Submission, in the biblical sense, is based upon the 6th Commandment – “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you” (Ex. 20:12).
The Heidelberg Catechism answers the question of what the commandment means by saying, “That I show all honor, love [...]
Been Thinking About…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
…Submission.
The Bible has a lot to say about it, some of it I’m sure we’d rather not hear (and definitely don’t heed). To be honest, I have to say that. Mark Twain once quipped that it wasn’t what he didn’t understand in the Bible that bothered him, it was what he did understand. [...]
Roberts on Denominations
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Pastor Mark Roberts of Irvine Presbyterian Church in California has written a good series of posts on denominations. Yes, I realize that’s a dirty word for some, but it doesn’t have to be. Roberts is pastor of a church in the Presbyterian Church USA, and many have asked him if, as a result of recent [...]
The Man in Black
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Johnny Cash has always been one of my favorite musicians, even when I didn’t quite know why. His music (especially the lyrics) seem timeless and extremely honest. Cash pulled no punches when he wrote and sang about the unseemly aspects of life – the dark side. Too much of what is called [...]
"Thinking of the Unthinkable Pastoral Response"
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Spencer (iMonk) has a thought-provoking post on how a pastor can respond to the death of an infant, especially if he believes in the “T” in Calvinism – total depravity. Standing at the graveside with the family would we say something like, “Because this child was born a sinner, and thus dead in [...]
"Not Very Serious"
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
David Wells is a professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and, in my opinion, something of a prophet in the church today. I was challenged and enlightened by his earlier books, No Place For Truth and God in the Wasteland. He’s written another book called Above All Earthly Pow’rs, which I haven’t read, but [...]
A Fundamental Difference
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Chuck Colson, in his latest Breakpoint commentary, makes some great points about the Spiritual Activism Conference held in Washington D.C. not too long ago. It was a gathering of the religious left to complain about the religious right, basically. (On a side note, that’s not very tolerant or welcoming and it doesn’t “honor divrsety,” now [...]
