Defeating Sniveling Swagger with the Gospel

I’m really digging Tim Keller’s new book, The Reason For God. An answer to many of the latest attacks on Christianity by prominent atheists, Keller’s book is the latest work in the spirit of C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity.
One highlight:
The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet [...]

One Voice, Five Paths

Alex Chediak is a smart dude. He has a Ph.D. in engineering from Berkley and currently is an engineering professor at California Baptist University. He also wrote the book With One Voice: Singleness, Dating & Marriage to the Glory of God with his wife, and was the general editor of Defining Your Dating Style: 5 [...]

2 Dalmatians

Staci and I attended a surprise Disney-themed costume birthday party for our good friend Tyler last month, so we dressed up as dalmatians (Staci’s idea), which actually turned out nice. As usual, I can’t be in a photo without looking like a doofus.
We probably should have rented 99 dalmatians to really do things right, but [...]

The Beginning of the End

I don’t like to show off my work very much, but the picture above is what I am working on right now for the sermon artwork for the last portion of Luke that our pastor will preach through in the coming months, and I’m really digging it for some reason. I think it is because [...]

The immutability of God and His promises

Tomorrow I will teach the junior high group at our church about the immutability of God in the story of Balak and Balaam from the book of Numbers in chapter 23:19, and one of the things that jumped at me today was the contrast of the dialogues between Balak and Balaam, and God and Moses.
And [...]

Faithfulness vs Fruitfulness

Nothing keeps me awake working late at night better than some good coffee and listening to Mark Driscoll yell preach. The latest message I listened to was The Supremacy of Christ and the Church in a Postmodern World from the 2006 Desiring God National Conference.
During a portion encouraging pastors to unashamedly preach penal substitution as [...]

Enemies of Biblical Manhood: Radio

I enjoy not owning a television. One of the benefits is that I must listen to the radio in order to know what is going on around the world. I primarily listen to National Public Radio for its news, intriguing stories, and overall wide breadth of content that exposes me to a great variety of [...]