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I know there are some of you who don’t care a lick for baseball. And for that reason I try not to mention my Blue Jays too often. But if you’re into baseball at all, you should check out this article on Jose Bautista and the season he’s having so far. Granting that there’s still a lot of baseball to play, the man is tearing the league apart. In fact, if he keeps it up (which he probably won’t), he might just have the best season of all-time.
10 Things Submission Is Not - This is a good article that deals with what is not true about biblical submission. Someone should write up a companion (“10 Things Leadership Is Not”); do that and make it good and I’ll give it a link as well!
Children! - Bill Mounce asks a question about a translation choice in John 21 where Jesus calls the disciples “children.” “There is no way that a grown man would yell out "children" to another group of grown men, and fishermen to boot…”
Inspiring Bookstores - One great loss as the world transitions to ebooks will be the bookstore. Here is a gallery of some particularly impressive ones.
But God… - Aaron Armstrong writes a glowing review of Cruciform Press’ latest book, But God. “Because "But God..." and all of the publisher's titles are held to a strict word count, their authors are not afforded room to meander. They have to get to the point, which (I know from experience) can prove difficult. But in this book's case, the result is a refreshingly concise, yet comprehensive biblical theology of grace that left this reader more in awe of the grace of God.”
Attention Spans - And while we’re on the subject of short books, WSJ has an article in praise of shortened attention spans. Because otherwise we are all prone to meander (as Aaron has just suggested!).
Suffering as a Gift of Grace - Drew wrestles with a tough verse here, and offers up some good thoughts on what it means that we suffer for Christ’s sake.
Texting Mom - I enjoyed this video.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. —John Calvin
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Comments (11)
I wish the submission list was presented differently. Because I have participated in churches where submission meant that the woman was less than her husband, where submission was presented not as a marriage issue (because all women are required to submit to all men), where women can never appropriately question her husband, etc.
Those are all improper understandings of submission. I think it is far more important for the church to teach what submission is than it is to defend submission to against people that do not understand it.
If the church actually practiced proper leadership, then submission would not be an issue. Instead we have all kinds of pastors and other leaders that abuse leadership, and act as improper models of how men should lead in the home.
I LOVE baseball, but I think Jose Bautista is curious… where in the world did his power come from? He reminds me all too much of David Ortiz - a not-too-much hitter in Minnesota and then wham, a slugger in Boston. It certainly sounds PED-ish to me.
The season Bautista is having so far has been fun to watch, even as a Boston/Detroit fan (don’t ask). Baseball can always use this kind of power as it is great for the fans and the game itself. But because of the world we live in I think the questions have already started to pop up questioning whether or not he is using some kind of banned substance.
I would like to see an article describing real-world examples in which a complementarian relationship with a husband who self-sacrificially seeks his wife’s interests over his own actually ends up functioning differently from an egalitarian relationship in which both halves are in mutual submission to one another and seek the other’s interests over their own.
Where does the rubber hit the road, so to speak. What are the real-world scenarios in which the complementarian wife has to “man up” (forgive the irony) and submit to her husband while an egalitarian wife (living in a mutually self-sacrificial relationship) might not.
Beautiful bookstores. I am glad to see two on the list that I am familia with: John King Books in Detroit, and Ateneas in Buenos Aires, which I visited more than once when I lived in Argentina.As long as people will buy the printed page, there will always be bookstores. Perhaps they will have to begin focusing on specialty services like rare books and book repair.
That video…is spot on…except my mom is a little better at technology than that. I love her.
I’m trying to get into Baseball. I think I would enjoy it if there was a team closer to home. The nearest one is in Dallas (Rangers) and that is 275 miles from my house.I loved baseball as a kid. We lived just a few blocks from mile high stadium in Denver.I used to park three cars on my front lawn @ two bucks a piece and run to the stadium and sell cokes. I usually made between 25 and 35 dollars before half time. After the half I turned in my vender’s hat and went down near the sideline to watch the rest of the Bronco’s games. That was back when #44 (Floyd Little) was their running back.In the summer time I sold cokes for Denver’s minor league baseball team. I retrieved a couple of foul balls through the summers. I don’t think this minor league team is there any longer. I’ve tried to become a fan of the Rockies but my heart just isn’t in it.
Is it bad that the video made me cry?
I loved the video! Thanks for making me smile today.
I loved the video!
Here you go…10 Things Leadership is NOT:http://beggartobeggar.blogspot.com/2011/05/10-things-leadership-is-not.html