5.25.08 - Boundary Water Sabbatical

(The following is from my journal dated 5.25.08 related to my trip to the Boundary Waters)
5.25.08 (Sunday)
We’re in. We left at 7am from Crane Lake on a jet boat for a 2 hour “fast tow”. The “fast tow” included two boat portages which were quite interesting. They actually had little train tracks [...]

Redbirds Win This One

I took my daughter to her first ever Cardinals game this past Tuesday.  In her first outing she got to witness a double-pickle play and also an inside-the-park homerun.  The Cards won 7-2 (and all even though we only stayed for a couple of innings - we got to see all 7 runs scored).
My wife has [...]

Privatized Faith?

Pope-on-a-rope joking aside, there is a valuable discussion occurring over at the On Faith blog regarding an important comment that he made last week with respect to the danger of privatized faith. The following post was made by Leith Anderson. I agree with his response to the question posed.

The Question: In his [...]

OT History - Part 12

Our focus tomorrow night in the Old Testament Historical Books class will be 1 Samuel 16-31. This is an exciting section of Scripture where we are introduced to David and begin to see him rise as Saul falls.
The notes for tonight’s class can be found here:

1 Samuel 16-31

Next week, we’ll be starting 2 [...]

Best Free Software

PC Week has published a comprehensive and categorized list of their Best Free Software.
I recently downloaded and installed GIMP and was happy to see it made the list.  A couple of others that piqued my interest were Audacity and Foxit Reader.

Have You Read Your Bible?

This past week I had the opportunity to teach on 1&2 Kings in a combined young adult (20s-30s) and high school class at our church. At some point not too far into the lesson, I asked for a show of hands of those that had even read 1&2 Kings. I got about 6 hands out [...]