I just got a sample of a booklet entitled, “About Being Baptist” in the mail. I read the book and thought, “Wow, I’m a pretty awful baptist.” Or, as my friend and mentor Frank would say, “You’re NYTB (Not Your Typical Baptist).” I pretty much knew that already (when you have friends who are Catholic…
Category: Pastoring
A lot going on…but mostly good stress
I’m looking forward to this summer. Our Wii bowling league (it looks like we’ll have 9 teams) looks like it’s goign to work out, my wife has a lot of things going on with the youth group, my son is letting me take his training wheels off a bit so we can practice riding, I’m…
Oh the Harmony…
A friend of my wife’s recently handed her a series of books, insisting the she and I would love them. As she handed them over to my wife she said, “As I read them I just couldn’t help but think of you and Wes.” This both fascinated and shocked me. It shocked me because, while…
Milk out of my nose funny…
I think perhaps it’s because I’ve met many people who think this way for reai, but this line from Stephen Colbert’s recent speech at Princeton (done in character) made me want to spew milk out of my nose. Alas, I had no milk to spew. Colbert, inspiration for Ben & Jerry’s AmeriCone Dream, continued dousing…
Please, stop forwarding me!
I got another one of “those” forwards this morning. I keep telling people that I neither agree with, nor appreciate, them. What are “those” forwards? They usually take three forms: Fear-mongering racism Idolatrous confusion of the USA with Christianity. All of the above. The one I got this morning was particularly painful to read, and…
A Prayer of Thankfulness
I’ve been taking a break from my sociological reading in order to be nourished by a biography of John Newton. I say “nourished” because the more I read his story, the more I come to love this man of common dress and language – and yet a man whose heart was so transformed by Christ…
