New Year’s Links

Not sure how you approach a new year, but here are some helpful/humorous links I found:

David Allen of Getting Things Done on, well, getting things done.
Life Dev recommends Twelve Programs to Put on Your Brand New Christmas Mac; in light of Allen, try the free iGTD application (it’s our way to organize life).
Need [...]

Graceful Madeline

Like the bicycle she rides, she is always on the move
Like the many things she tries, something else is always new
Like the song she loves to sing, is her heart You made to fly
Like a girl with angel’s wings, is my graceful Madeline
We now have a nine-year-old in the house. Happy birthday, Madeline Grace.

Booklist 2007

After hitting 59 in 2006 , my reading goal this year was 60 books, which I made (barely). September and October were hard because of school, but between the rugged required reading in June and some catch-up time in December, things worked out in the end. I’m shooting for 6 per month for a total [...]

Ho, Ho, Hum

I’m not Scrooge incarnate, but let’s just say I’ve never been accused of being a jolly old elf around Christmas time. It’s not that I’m ungrateful for the Reason for the Season; it’s just that when I look at all that goes on in the name of Christmas, it sure seems everyone else is. (I’m [...]

Links to Grade By

I’m up to my eyeballs in papers and tests, so in case there are any other teachers out there facing a similar doom, here are some links to grade by:

There are people who are smart…and then there’s Susan Wise Bauer
I think Obama’s onto something; David Brooks thinks so for different reasons
As this mom encourages parents [...]

Final(s) Thoughts?

Today was my last teaching day of the semester at Westminster, as the rest of the week consists of final exams and a whole lot of grading. I didn’t “teach” much today, but instead finished reviewing and just enjoyed hanging out with my students. It was a good day, and I realized how much I’m [...]

How the Emerging Church Can Help the PCA

At the risk of overkill (and to bring closure – at least for now – to what ended up being this week’s topic du jour), I thought it might be interesting to consider some key contributions the emerging church movement might offer the PCA to make it more missional.
From my perspective, the biggest contribution would [...]

Eleven Years Today

This may not stay up long after Megan sees it, but here’s a fun pic of the girl I’ve been married to for the past 11 years. No, this isn’t how she argues; it’s just how she is (and I’m glad).
Happy anniversary, M.

Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches

As there’s been some good discussion in response to my previous post on Rob Bell, I thought I’d offer another resource for those interested in some further reading on the emerging church. Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches is a quick read that includes contributions and responses from emerging leaders Mark Driscoll, John Burke, [...]

Emerging Evangelicalism?

Rob Bell was featured in Time last week, causing somewhat of a stir among the evangelical faithful that perhaps an heir apparent to the fading Billy Graham is emerging. Bell, of course, is used to “emerging” – he’s founding pastor of Mars Hill Church (which I think I visited once back in the mid-90’s but [...]

JPod Quotes

Three favorite quotes (among others) from various characters in Douglas Coupland’s JPod:

“You can’t fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.”
“After a week of intense googling, we’ve started to burn out knowing the answer to everything. God must feel that way all the time. I think people in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for [...]

Links for a Frigid Friday

I was hoping that, due to freezing rain and sleet last night, we’d have a snow day today. Alas, as of 5:50 a.m., it doesn’t appear to be. So, here are some links for a frigid Friday:

There’s quite a discussion (36 comments and counting) going on over at World on the Web pertaining to my [...]

Owen on the Non-Efficiency of the Bible

Puritan John Owen on why God didn’t just “give us a list” of everything we need to know that we could use more easily than the “non-efficient” nature of the Bible:
“Such a systematical proposal of doctrines, truths, or articles of faith, as some require, would not have answered the great ends of the Scripture itself. [...]

Now Up at byFaith

I wasn’t sure if they were going to post it online or not (the actual issue has been out for almost two months now), but my byFaith article (written in July) on the political views of twenty- and thirty-somethings in the PCA is finally up on byFaith’s newly-redesigned site. Check it out and leave a [...]