7 Years Ago Today

Today marks seven years of marriage to my beautiful wife, Meg.  Last night I spent some time searching through old pictures for this one which is one of my all time favorites.  It took me a while to find it, but I knew it was there and I knew it was the one I wanted.  [...]

Random Nerd 5.29.2009 – Facebook and Twitter

In trying to get my head around both Facebook and Twitter, I found a helpful blog post that distinguished each from the other.  If you’re confused like I still am, give this post by Steve Thornton a read called Twitter versus Facebook: Should You Choose One?
If you’re lazy and want to cut to the chase, [...]

Facebook and Twitter

I’ve succumbed.  I’m no longer simply a blog snob.  If you want to be my friend, check me out on Facebook.  If you want a little bit more of a glimpse into my life, you can follow me on Twitter.

Learn to Praise

Psalm 1 tells us that God simply does not care to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of cooly aloof inquirers: his passion is for dragging ugly wallflowers onto the dance floor.  When we come to him looking merely for a respectable philosophical system, he not so subtly reshapes the question: “So it’s truth you think you [...]

Celestial Valium

This is a bracing feature of biblical song: God’s songs are not celestial Valium.  Rather than sugarcoat the human condition, the Psalms look into the cosmically rebellious human breast with eyes wide open.  They sing a brand of blues so raw and honest they would make blues singer John Lee Hooker blush.  But there is [...]

The Blinding Instant of Unmasked, Naked Self-Awareness

God is after a convergence of his character and ours.  The Psalms offer as a chief means of attaining this convergence: “Sit and soak.  Chew on this.”  We are told to plant ourselves like a tree on the bank of a waterway, meditating on it, absorbing the Word into our being.  Several psalms are composed [...]

Random Nerd 5.15.2009 – Did You Know

I love stats and this video is full of them.  Enjoy.

Authentic Worship is Sung

One of the classes I’m taking at seminary this semester is on Christian Worship.  We’ve read several books for this class but the last one, With One Voice: Discovering Christ’s Song in Our Worship by Reggie Kidd has probably been the best.  I’ll be sharing some quotes from that book over the next week or [...]