One of the things I used to do in the Navy was let the guys know, as soon as I got to a new assignment, that I was a Christian. I figured that if I did that right off, they would help hold me to it. So somehow, some way, on the first day, I …
My First Sermon and Welcome to It
I joined the Navy when I was still seventeen, and still in high school. It was a delayed entry, so I did not have to report until the next November. That allowed me to graduate (from Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor), and to help my family use the summer to move out west, to …
Trace Elements of the Coming Glory
Last night my wife took a picture off our east deck (with her phone), and that pic is posted below. She put it up on her blog, and I wanted to do the same here, because it illustrates a point I have often wondered about. Why is it that nature photography is so limited, in …
Another Word Would Be Eclectic
I have said before, in the course of this argument or that one, that my musical tastes are catholic. But, for any of those who might be interested, I thought I should make that point a bit more concrete. One of my more frequented playlists in my iTunes library has 537 songs in it. If …
Natcherly
While visiting this evening after our sabbath dinner, we got on to sleep stories, and I was reminded of a good one that happened to us years ago — back in our E street days, not that this means anything to you all. But I digress . . . I was sleeping soundly one night, …
Uber-Post of All Time
As I have been playing around with this new website, fooling about with techie analyses and such, I am reminded of an experience I had once in the Navy. I was on the USS Tusk, a vintage diesel submarine, and we were headed over to the Med. We were making that transit on the surface …
Stand By for Heavy Rolls . . .
. . . as we used to say in the Navy. Here’s the deal. I started bloggin in 2004, when the world was young and we were all full of idealistic fancies. Blog and Mablog also started out with a platform that was not going to be able hold all the verbal pig iron that …
As Though the Gospel Had Cooties
I think it would be appropriate to ask you to consider this post as a combination of testimony, confession, record of theological emergence, and story, as in, the rest of the story. Well, actually some of the rest of the story. Not surprisingly, many of the milestones in my life are most easily marked by …
Thanks in a Bundle
The Desiring God 2009 conference ended yesterday, and last night a special roundtable discussion on eschatology was held at Bethlehem Baptist. The whole time has been wonderful, and I wanted to state publicly what a privilege it was to be invited to participate, and I wanted to thank John Piper in particular. As you might …
Prayer Breakfast Judeo Christians
So let me tell you about a fun thing. A few weeks ago, Garry Trudeau ran a few strips in Doonesbury sending up “The Family,” of C Street fame — a group of Washington insiders running a ministry to politicians. As a faithful Doonesbury reader unacquainted with whatever scandal he was referring to, I thought …