A Dark And Quiet Room

The answer to “Guess The Quote“:

Brian McLaren

The entire article is well worth the read.

Who said this:

“Why do we who claim to be biblical talk so much about accepting Christ as personal savior, which is not really biblical language – and so little about the kingdom of God is at hand, which is at the core of Jesus’ message in the Bible?�

I’ll post the answer…later.

Doug’s Blog: Honorably Leaving a Church

What he said.

(I love having my own blog. I can make “me, too” posts and everyone else just has to deal with it!)

Backwater Report � Al Mohler on the Morality of Nukes

Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks that our use of nukes in World War II was reprehensible.

Apparently, Andrew Peterson has a new album on the way, entitled The Far Country. This man is a great lyricist, in the tradition of Rich Mullins, and is worthy of your support. There are some samples of his work on this page.

The Far Country cover art

Baylyblog: Out of our minds, too: Philosophy, the Foe of Christianity

Starring an extended quote from Martin Lloyd-Jones. Here are his final remarks:

“The sum of all I am saying is that the evangelical distrusts scholarship and is watchful of it. That does not mean that he is anti-intellectual; it does not mean that he becomes obscurantist; but it does mean that he keeps reason and scholarship in their place. They are servants and not masters.”

For all the IT professionals out there, my brothers-in-arms:

“Like virtually all of the software projects we’ve been involved with, clients never seem to know exactly what they want - until they don’t get it.”—William Vaughn

(The previous report is here.)

Pretty much a non-report, but boy it’s fun recording my voice!

(The next report is here.)

Hitherby Dragons: Hard and Cold

It’s like Memento. Only different.

Astronaut ready for historic fix to shuttle

A hacksaw. Some duct tape. Scissors. A little Velcro. And a lot of luck.

Weekend handymen would feel right at home with the tools that space-shuttle astronaut Stephen Robinson has on hand for this morning’s chores.

I understand that the duct tape ultimately wasn’t necessary. But still, it was far too good a story to pass up.

Leithart.com | Domesticity

I don’t care if he was a papist. This is wisdom:

“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.”

I came across this verse during my devotions today.

And the blind and the lame came to Him [Jesus] in the temple, and He healed them. (Matthew 21:14)

Seems like a good picture of the Church to me. But do we really believe it to be true? Or will Jesus say to us:

Truly I say to you that the tax-gatherers and harlots will get into the kingdom of God before you. (Matthew 21:31b)

Those who believe they are well are doomed, but the sick will be saved.

A Casualty in My Own War - LeadershipJournal.net

Because good things can come from Christianity Today. Really.

Crystal came across this article while perusing the Internet: Church Marketing Sucks: Why We Use ‘Sucks’ In light of the recent furor about some of my word choices, I thought that I’d expose all of you to this.

A quote from the article:

Many recall a familiar message by Tony Campolo where he uses the four-letter “sâ€? word. Iterations exist all over the place (including the Internet), but the context goes something like “[This many] children have died of hunger today and you don’t give a s–t! In fact, you are more concerned with the fact that I said ‘s–t’ than [this many] children died of hunger.”

And don’t even get me started about Philippians 3:8 and Paul’s use of the word skubalon….

For the last year, my pastor has been emailing a short daily devotional. We have just begun to archive them at this site. Just in case any of you wanted to know.