In my previous post, I mentioned a book that had been profoundly influential in my thinking about what it means to be a Christian man. I didn’t mention the title–only that I read it about 12 years ago. Several readers guessed John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart. A good guess, but that is not the book […]
As the picture above suggests, it was a big weekend around our house. Our first-born, known in this blog as Female Offspring Unit #1, graduated from Baylor University. She did us all proud. She finished in four years (an increasingly rare feat). She finished with distinction. And she passed the most important test of all. […]
What does the demise of the Surgically Altered One have to do with anything? Well . . . A heavy box from Tyndale House publishers arrived at the house yesterday. It was full of these: The Paul Harvey book has just been released in paperback form. I’m very pleased that Tyndale has chosen to do […]
Now to follow up on my previous post (Toward a Masculine Model of Spirituality.) In it, I offered the thought that men have largely been offered what amounts to a feminine model of relationship with God. That is, one that is conversation-based rather than action-based. As I mentioned in the earlier post, men generally tend […]
My buddy Jon E. snapped the following photo on Highway 377 in the Keller/Watauga area north of Fort Worth. Can’t quite make out the message? Here, allow me to zoom in for you . . . Still struggling? It says: SAVE THE DATE! RETURN OF CHRIST May 21, 2011 Although the web site address at […]
It was a good morning yesterday. I spent it with about twenty men–ranging in age from roughly 22 to 82–and shared some thoughts about something I’ve been thinking, studying, and praying about for several years now. “318” is a diverse group of men who meet monthly for breakfast, some worship and a Word-based exhortation. I […]
Four months and ten days shy shy of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the word at this hour is that Osama Bin Laden has been killed and that the U.S. military (or CIA) is in possession of his body. I had to smile when I saw the tweet of the political humorist “IowaHawk”: US has […]
I apologize for the extended radio silence. I’ve been so caught up in anticipation of the wedding that I fell off the grid altogether. And of course by “the wedding” I mean the NBA playoffs and the NFL draft. It seems I did hear something about some wedding taking place in one of those formerly […]
Let’s wind this up, shall we? In the previous three posts (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) I have tried to lay the groundwork for a fresh way to think about what is widely called God’s “sovereignty.” I’m going to try to build on that foundation now, even though I’m strongly sympathetic to the […]
In two ridiculously long previous posts, (Part 1 and Part 2) I’ve written about the way tragedies such as the tsunami in Japan tend to generate a corresponding tidal wave of arm-chair theologizing about God’s sovereignty. I won’t re-trample the ground I’ve already covered other than to quote something I said in the previous post […]
