Generally Orange Couunty, CA is referred to as “sunny southern California.” The exception is when I head out for a visit. Clouds and rain Wednesday evening into Thursday. We did get some sun today – breakfast on the beach is a nice fringe when coming out to meet with the folks at Fuller Seminary.
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Monthly Archives: October 2004
Blog from the garage …
Truth in strange places …
From the new television series, “Lost.” “If we can’t live together then we will die alone.”
Faith
A quote from Sunday bible study – “None of your faith is in your faith.”
Scandal …
Stephne Shields puts together some thoughts and links regarding Mark Noll’s book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind ten years later.
Hopeful optimism and the move from Christian pessimism …
Reading through Romans 5 in preparation for Bible Study last evening, I came to a personal conclusion I sense grows from the text. We who follow God the way Jesus shows us and the Spirit empowers us should increasingly move from a position of pessimism toward hopeful optimism. Pop-eschatology birthed in the late 19th [...]
The relationship between story and truth claim …
Divine Conspirator raised some questions about story and truth. The comments have been interesting. What I Think also offered insight. I ran across this quote from N.T. Wright in his commentary on Romans 5-8. He wrote,
Beneath the surface, however, and poking out like the tips of a huge iceberg at varous key points, there [...]
Exodus or Exile …
The September 27, 2004 issue of the Wall Street Journal offered an article on the Internatinoal scene titled, “Iraq See Chrisitan Exodus.” Yochi J. Dreazen chose “exodus” when “exile” might not be a better picture. The “Exodus” conjures the Hebrew picture of liberation and freedom. What Dreazen describes is more like “exile.” We find a [...]
Uniquely Mormon? …
I received another article clipped from the Wall Street Journal; again found in the column, “Houses of Worship.” “The New Promised Land” appeared in the October 8, 2004 issue of the Journal. Naomi Schaefer Riley chronicles the growing acceptance of Mormonism expecially in the New England states. I find two statements made in the article [...]
Consequences, culture and disconnect …
John clipped a few articles from the Wall Street journal for me to read. One of those articles, “Christian Teens? Not Very” penned by Dale Buss appeared in the July 9, 2004 column, “Houses of Worship.”
Buss runs through a number of statistics that convey a confusing picture when it comes to teens and faith. The [...]
More television wisdom …
My family knows my penchant for a good quote. They offered yet another from the new series, “Lost.”
“A leader can’t lead unless he knows where he is going.”
My question, “What about a leader who knows the direction but not the exact destination?” Careful, consider Abram who through his journeys became Abraham.
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