Something Special
The new live worship recording by Chris McClarney (from the folks at Jesus Culture) is extraordinary in its beauty and depth. I can’t recommend Everything and Nothing Less heartily enough. Here’s a taste:
Category: Faith
On “A Confident Expectancy of Grace”
Yes it is blessed when a waiting soul and a waiting God meet each other. And if His waiting be nothing but goodness and graciousness, let ours be nothing but a rejoicing in that goodness, and a confident expectancy of that grace.—Andrew Murray
One Final Mad Men Peeve
Before I just let it go and move on, I thought I’d point out one additional annoying, yea, even galling aspect of the way the writers of Mad Men chose to rescue Don Draper from his eight-year-long free-fall of drink, deception, and debauchery. That is, to have him stagger into a touchy-feely retreat center built around a […]
On Internet Civility
Stunning Time-Lapse Video Collage
. . . in America’s amazing desert southwest. (catchy tune by The Afters is music bed.)
Back Up North, Pt. 2
I forgot to mention in the previous post . . . We got a private tour of the Minnesota Twins new baseball field while we were up there. It was amazing. (Thanks, Taylor!)
The Untold Story of California’s Water Crisis
You’re not likely to get this information anywhere else, because it doesn’t fit the preferred narratives of the dominant media culture. Discover . . . Why California’s Drought was Completely Preventable
Holy Week Musings, Pt. 3
Come, Believer, and contemplate this sublime truth, thus proclaimed to thee in simple monosyllables: “He laid down His life for us.” —Charles Spurgeon
Holy Week Musings Pt. 2
Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on a town garbage heap; at a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek . . . and at the kind of place where cynics […]
Holy Week Musings, Part 1—Qualifying at the Cross
Our oldest daughter was 26 years old a couple of months ago. But she still calls me “Daddy” from time to time, and I love that. It takes me back to those days when our three girls were small, utterly un-self-conscious, and therefore, hilarious—a source of endless entertainment. There was a brief season of time […]