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This last weekend I was in Vancouver Canada participating in The Good News Tour. This is a traveling conference that celebrates, proclaims and defends the beautiful character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Some…

Hello bloggers, I’ll start by warning you that I’m offering a perspective in this post that is, by “normal” evangelical standards, unconventional. To readers who fall into this category, I ask only that you to…

Hello blogging buds, Thanks for all the encouraging responses to my “soul-ache” post. I’m continuing to explore its source and remain free of idolatry. In the mean time, here’s something that might interest some of…

 Mind if I just sort of soul-barf with this post? I’m just going to explore something out loud and see what comes of it. I’ve been noticing an intensifying pain in my soul over the…

Hi folks, Shelley and I along with our small group returned last Friday from an incredible nine-day vacation in Puerto Rico. (Actually, one of the couples in our group — Dave and Terri Churchill —…

Heh bloggers, Well, to transition from the truly egg-heady (last blog) to the merely entertaining and cute (this blog). Check out the latest video of “the world’s fastest two-year-old drummer.” It just so happens he’s…

Hi blog buds, If you don’t consider yourself an egg-head, this blog might not be your cup of tea. Tune in next post. But if you are an egg-head and are interested in things like…

Hi Bloggers! Sorry I haven’t been blogging much lately. Economic challenges have required that I be more involved in the details of Woodland Hills Church than usual. I’ve also been more obsessive than usual with…

Wow. WOW!   T’was “the mother of all parties!” Providence Ministries hosted an NDY gig at The Dugout in Mahtomedi Friday night and the place was packed! By the time “Kingdom” came on (a band…

In a previous post I discussed Plutarch’s warfare worldview – a view, I argue, that is quite insightful and remarkably consistent with the quasi-dualistic theology of the New Testament. What’s interesting, however, is that Plutarch…

Happy 2009! Check out the NDY (Not Dead Yet) poster that my friend and paparazzi /photographer extraordinaire Marcia Erickson made. Not bad, heh? You can just tell the geek on the far left is a…

Hello blogging community. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and will enjoy a happy new year. As I mentioned in my previous post, in my opinion, Plutarch (late first and early second century)…

Hi folks, Hope you’re all enjoying the Holiday season. I am quite a bit, largely because (you guessed it) I’ve been enjoying my study of the Middle Platonist philosopher Plutarch. Where Mr. Magoo failed, Plutarch…

Hello blogging friends, Well, its close to Christmas, so I thought I’d reflect on a Christmas issue. I’ve gotten a number of e-mails from people the last few weeks asking me about the “virgin birth.”…

My ritual for “getting into the Christmas spirit” each year is to watch Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (my favorite since childhood), Charlie Brown’s Christmas and the original Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Usually these hokey childhood…

Hello blogger friends, I’ve been reading Volume II of John Goldingay’s excellent two volume work, Old Testament Theology, 2 Vols (IVP, 2006). Among other things, Goldingay highlights an important, but almost universally overlooked, aspect of…