Ministry in the real world

Youth group at Woodville/Billtown starts on the 15th, and I’m looking forward to what God’s going to do with that.  One of the awesome things about being a “student pastor” (which technically I’m not, as I don’t have an area license yet - but there’s no other word for it) is that I’m truly, and [...]

Books, books and more books

The dreaded book list has arrived for the school year, so if your in any of my classes, here’s the Amazon links to the cheapest options. So, before I get too stressed out about those costs and so forth, here’s some quotes to lighten the mood:

Old basketball players never die. They just sit [...]

Why I’m a Calvinist: Part I

We go by many names - Augustine, Calvinist, Reformed, Tulip-sniffers - but it all adds up to the same thing. Today, Calvinists are a minority within modern evangelical protestantism, but such wasn’t always the case. At the height of the Protestant Reformation, we were the primary voices crying out for a return to [...]

Down, Pluto, down!

Watching the media report on scientific matters is a lot like watching a moose describe the feeling of winged flight. The mainstream media’s only goal these days is to have you, the consumer, look at their story over and above anyone else’s so that your consumer eyes will also lap up the advertising that [...]

Homestar Mets

As if the fact that I can now proudly wear my Mets ball-cap because the Metties are still numero uno in the National League (the number 2 spot in both leagues after the AL’s Detroit), and not only are they riding a 6-game winning streak, but it turns out there are Mets fans popping out [...]