Here’s the cover, and here is George’s commendation. As he says, I came into the project especially for the chapter on nineteenth century missions. It was an honor to be part of it because, for a small book, it was in my view an important one.
I have been bothering Jay about producing a generic form […]
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When Jennifer and I left Nashville to go to seminary in St. Louis, I was certain that I would find some ministry opportunity when I was done so that we could move back and continue to raise a family with friends we knew in Nashville, which I presumed to think of as our adopted home […]
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I think it is objectively important for many reasons, but, personally, writing this paper was a water shed experience to the extent that intellectual “arrivals” or cognitive rest are important to pastoral life.
Basically, I’m snipping pieces of it and blogging them. Long papers are not really web friendly. I suspect that I will […]
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One of my favorites: Dr. Edmund Clowney, lecturing on typology and hermeneutics, addressed the position that we can only find types in the OT that are mentioned in the NT. He said:
That’s like saying that we’re only allowed to do a problem in a math textbook if the answer to that problem is given […]
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So at some point during World Breastfeeding Week, I went back in the Dooce archives (huge, gartantuan content warning; I AM NOT KIDDING) and read about Leta’s first days in the Armstrong household via Heather’s posts. I knew she would provide me with spiritual nourishment and I was not disappointed:
I decided many years ago […]
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I’ve posted some other pictures of high school days but this one is more accurate because I spent most of my time from ninth grade on trying to cover acne pits with what beard I could grow.
But I really like this picture because, despite the retro hippy hair and the parachute pants and the (ugh) […]
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Title: HIStory
Column: A Pastor’s Perspective
Date: Don’t have that written down on my copy. Sometime between around 1999 to 2000.
Magazine: Ligonier Ministries’ TableTalk
Quick! What’s the basic message of the Bible? Summarize it in as few words as possible and say what first comes to mind.
Here’s how I would answer the question:
Boy meets girl.
No, I am […]
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I was raised in a devout Evangelical home. Both parents were and are sincere Christians. I “asked the Lord Jesus into my heart” at age six and was baptized at age eight.
My parents were devout and raised us to be. We never skipped church and we read about and talked about the […]
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I still need to do this one, but an easier meme has been sent to me. I was a metal head too, but I’m wondering if I was true enough. I love nostalgic 80s music now. And a lot of rock/metal makes me cringe. (Iron Maiden still makes me proud, but […]
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Finally, a decent internet connection! I’m at the coffee shop where I loitered with friends the other night when it was closed–homeless vagabonds in search of wifi in Memphis….
The most important thing to say to my friends in the blogosphere: This was a really encouraging G.A. I met people I had never […]
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Continuing some photohistory.
My parents, my brother (or one of my nephews–you probably can’t tell at this resolution but the resemblance is striking) and me sometime in Liberia, West Africa. I’m guessing 1978. Yes, one time a taxi driver did yell out his window at us: “Overload.”
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No, this was not its longest. The fact that my bangs don’t hang over my eyes or reach from the center of my forehead to my ears, tells you that I’m becoming rather tame at this point.
Is it embarrassing?
No, this is really embarrassing! God forgive the fanboy sins of my youth.
PS: And by […]
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One of the wonders that we lost with the web was the gorgeous beauty of the Liberty Fund book catalogue. It may still exist, but with their stock now all available for online ordering, and even searchable online, I can’t justify asking for a free copy any more.
Their books are equally beautiful in the […]
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Regarding my regrets expressed here, I forgot to mention a major reason that held me back: I could make a living as a wage slave. Between my wife and I, it was fairly easy to live on hourly jobs that didn’t require experience. (Actually, before children, Jennifer had a professional job in publishing.)
After seminary, […]
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This was originally published on 7 August 2006, the month that disappeared upon transfering to this blog site. A recent blog post reminds me to republish it:
I hadn’t gone to seminary. I had only been Reformed for a few years. I was a college graduate reading a hot Reformed magazine. The issue was Lordship […]
