Random Nerd 2.27.09 – Nano Nano

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100 Percent Gospel

Jonathan Dodson has an extremely helpful post on The Resurgence site called Gospel and Method: Part 2.  In it he exposes the need for 100% gospel focus in our churches.
Give it a read and let me know what you think.

Men: Lead at Home (5)

Praying can be hard.  I could list some reasons but the bottom line is that it is really easy to suck at praying.  Knowing that, I’m trying to be more intentional with my personal prayer time (early in the morning) as well as praying with my wife and praying with my kids.  If you’re like [...]

Long Live the Sharp 24″

Every once in a while something will come along that is worthy of a blog post both here and on our family blog. Today is one of those occasions. It is with mixed emotions that I report that our 24″ Sharp TV from 1992 has bitten the dust and been sent to pasture.  [...]

Men: Lead at Home (4)

As I mentioned in the last post, life gets real busy real fast for us.  One of the things that Meg and I have tried to commit ourselves to is setting Monday night aside for syncing up and studying together.  What this looks like is we put the girls to bed at eight, watch John [...]

Men: Lead at Home (3)

Life gets busy real easy for me.  If I’m not careful or intentional, I can very easily allow myself to be absorbed into the world of “doing stuff” and completely neglect times of sabbath.  With regard to leading my family one of the things I have been striving to be more intentional with lately is [...]

Knocking Down the Walls of the Fortress

“A frightening proportion of our churches are trapped by what Frank Tillapaugh calls the “fortress church” mentality. That mentality is made up of attitudes that may be conscious or unconscious: “Let them come to us! Our doors are open.” “We come to church to have our needs met, to escape the cold, [...]

Uniquely Similar

Have you ever stopped to consider how different, yet how alike we all are – with respect to sin?  Reflecting on some words I read a couple of weeks back during one of my morning devotions:
“In one respect we are indeed unalike, because each one of us privately forges his own particular error; yet we [...]

Men: Lead at Home (2)

Over the course of the last three years or more, Meg and I have allowed date nights to slip away.  Reflecting back, it happened when we started having kids and the reality is that we simply did not make the adjustment well.  There’s always been an excuse (no babysitting, babysitting costs too much, the kids [...]

Men: Lead at Home

This post will serve as the first of several in a series on calling men to lead at home.  This series spawns out of several personal convictions and my oft inability or lack of discipline in properly leading my family in the ways that I want to and also know that I should. To put [...]

Avoidance and Preaching

I came across this quote a while back and found it remarkably thought-provoking.  Read it twice.

“Identify those areas of reality that a preacher does not talk about and you will discover those spheres of reality that people are daily trying to navigate without the light of God’s Word”
(Eswine, Preaching to a Post-Everything World, 30)
(HT: [...]

Spring Seminary Reading

Spring courses started up last week at seminary.  For those of you who are new to the blog, I attend seminary (part time) at Covenant Theological Seminary here in St. Louis.
This spring, I’m taking two courses.  The first is a systematic theology course entitled Spirit Church and Last Things by Dr. Robert Peterson.  I’ll admit [...]