Thanksgiving (10/12/09 - 4 Comments)
As I mentioned on Saturday, this is Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada. Where our neighbors to the south celebrate Thanksgiving on a Thursday, here we do so on a Monday. So today is an official holiday--all the stores are closed and everyone gets a day off. Even bloggers. Today I'll leave you with some links I had bookmarked over the weekend, hoping you enjoy them as I did. How Jerusalem Was Spared. Yesterday Paul preached...
Friday Ramblings (10/09/09 - 22 Comments)
Here are just a few random things I wanted to mention before I post this week's Free Stuff Friday giveaway. Book News I mentioned a short time ago that I was in the midst of putting together book proposals. That was completed some time ago and in the very near future I should have some exciting news about my next writing projects. I'm just sorting through details right now but should be able to bring...
Friday Miscellania (02/27/09 - 11 Comments)
I was just opening up my blogging software to begin writing today's article when I got interrupted by a Home Depot truck. After our basement got flooded a couple of weeks ago, we decided (after having the crack in the foundation repaired) to replace the old, ugly carpet with hardwood. We ordered everything from Home Depot and the delivery turned up this morning. The truck couldn't maneuver to the front of our house, so had...
Friday Miscellania (02/13/09 - 29 Comments)
I am about to hit the road for what marks the beginning of a busy spring conference season. This evening I'll be speaking at a church in Mt. Morris, Michigan and will then travel with the youth to some kind of a retreat center. I'll be speaking to them five times over the weekend, covering issues related to discernment. I covet your prayers as I seek to minister effectively to these young people! Before I...
25 Stupendously Boring Things You Didn't Want to Know About Me (02/08/09 - 36 Comments)
There is some "25-Things" meme making its way around Facebook (and, from there, to the web beyond). I've been tagged a whole bunch of times. It has, after all, apparently been completed some five million times. Such memes are not really my thing. Some people take these things way too seriously and offer facts that, in other context, would be terribly humiliating. And yet they are kind of fine. I'll take a different approach. Here...
Odds and Ends (12/26/08 - 8 Comments)
I'm mostly taking time off through the end of this week, but wanted to share a few links I found round and about. The first shares the sad news that Disney has decided to walk away from the Chronicles of Narnia films. This leaves Walden Media looking for another distributor who can take them on (which Fox probably being the most obvious contender). It's not that the movies were losing money; far from it, really....
The Silence at the T4G Blog (12/05/08 - 67 Comments)
My buddy Scott wrote me recently to ask if I happened to know why the Together for the Gospel blog has gone silent. I took a look at the blog and, sure enough, it has not been updated since April. I snooped around some. As far as I can tell, the reason the blog has not been updated is this: the four "friends" are no longer talking to one another. There is a bit of...
What Have You Won? (11/29/08 - 44 Comments)
Yesterday I swung by Chapters, Canada's answer to Barnes & Noble. It was actually the first time in a long while that I had been inside a real brick and mortar bookstore. Though I browse books on a near-daily basis through the internet, rarely do I actually go into a store. I had almost forgotten what a different experience it is and what a good experience it is. Aileen and I found a few books...
ESV Study Bible (10/10/08 - 18 Comments)
I just got handed a copy of the ESV Study Bible by a roaming Crossway marketing guru. Ah, the joys of being a reviewer. The Bible is set for release this Tuesday and you can now order it from Amazon, Westminster Books, or any other online retailer. Westminster is offering it at a ridiculous discount in each of the eight editions and is shipping it starting today. Hardcover TruTone Nat Brown TruTone Classic Black Black...
A Week's Worth of Books (10/04/08 - 22 Comments)
I receive a lot of books in the mail. A lot of books. Choosing which ones I am going to read and review is always a bit of a chore. This morning I tidying up the disaster area that is my office floor and was trying to figure out which of the books would be added to my "to-read" bookcase and which would be filed in the other bookcases unread and forlorn. I jotted down...
Friday Miscellania (09/26/08 - 23 Comments)
It's Friday and that's a good day to ramble. So I thought I'd take the opportunity to share just a couple of items of "miscellania." Personal Updates I've had a couple of people ask for updates as to what I'm up to these days. So here goes. My fall travel schedule is very light, for which I'm grateful. In a couple of weeks I'll be heading to Chicago to blog the True Woman conference. Yes,...
Friday Miscellania (08/01/08 - 33 Comments)
Today I want to point to just a couple of items that have been waiting in my Bookmarks folder. Boring Sermons At a recent post on her blog, Deb Burton says this: “Your child thinks Sunday morning sermons are boring. The pastor is just another talking head, like all those grown-up shows with political pundits. His body language shows it. You think the pastor is right on the money - he’s biblical, he’s topical, and...
Friday Miscellania (07/11/08 - 18 Comments)
On the last day of the first round of my summer vacation, I want to offer up some links that have been collecting in my Bookmarks folder. NoiseTrade NoiseTrade is a site co-founded by Derek Webb that offers good music for “a few friends or a few bucks.” Their music is free to download if you pass along information about it to three friends or if you pay what you think it is worth. There...
What Father's Day Is Really About (06/07/08 - 6 Comments)
A couple of months ago my son got his first job—a paper route. Three times a week he loads a stack of Oakville Beaver’s in a wagon and drags it around the neighborhood. The Saturday and Wednesday papers are typically pretty small. Fridays, though, are when all the fliers are released upon the local population. There are typically six or seven of them—the regulars: Best Buy, local grocery stores and maybe Staples and a sports...
Friday Miscellania (05/30/08 - 3 Comments)
I returned home last night from my final conference of the year (or of the spring season, at least). At this point I’ve got only one tentative date on my calendar through the rest of 2008. While I’ve thoroughly enjoyed going to this year’s conferences, I’m not sorry to have a rather barren travel schedule for a while. Looking back at my calendar I can see that this spring I was in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky,...
Saturday Miscellania (05/03/08 - 2 Comments)
It is a rainy Saturday afternoon here in the Toronto area. I’m supposed to be heading out to coach a baseball practice at 2 PM but it’s looking rather doubtful at the moment. It seems like the kids are going to head into their first game with only one practice under their proverbial belts. It should be an interesting game to say the least. I’d guess at least 2 out of every 3 outs will...
Saturday Miscellania (04/26/08 - 37 Comments)
It’s funny how Saturdays, which used to be the most relaxing day for me, have become so busy. I am coaching Nick’s baseball team this year and we were on the field early this morning for our first practice. This season the kids are staring from the plate to a pitching machine and seeing pitches whistling in at 40 miles per hour. This is a substantial step up from last year’s coach pitch league where...
Friday Miscellania (03/28/08 - 15 Comments)
It’s Friday and there are a few things I’ve been saving in my Favorites folder that I’d like to mention today. The Internet Effect on News I say, without any hyperbole, that this article from TIME may be the most important you read today. In it Michael Scherer explains how news has become commoditized through the internet. Here is a basic shift that has occurred in the news business: Because of the Internet, you, the...
Saturday Miscellania (03/01/08 - 9 Comments)
Our church is hosting its first ever conference today, and I was supposed to help out. I was looking forward to serving there and just doing whatever needed to be done. But it wasn’t mean to be. Just around the stroke of midnight, both Aileen and Michaela came down with some awful strain of the flu and both were up pretty well all night. I didn’t fare much better, what with changing bedding, rinsing out...
Friday Miscellania (02/22/08 - 38 Comments)
Occasionally I use a Friday article to take care of a few things that have been on my mind. I’m going to do that today. A Media Junkie Joe Carter is a media junkie. You can read about his media obsession right here. He took an inventory of his media consumption and found he reads “one daily newspaper, 12 magazines, and over 300 RSS feeds.” And even then he reads far more magazines than he...
