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...
A Total Eclipse of the Moon (02/20/08 - 8 Comments)
A total eclipse of the Moon is set to occur during the night of Wednesday, February 20/21, 2008 (tonight). It will be visible throughout most of North and South America. I believe it is the last total eclipse we will see for several years. Here is what NASA says about the event: During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon’s disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red to dark...
Notes from the Road (12/31/07 - 33 Comments)
We spent our new year’s eve on the road. We got up at three o’clock this morning and scraped the frost off the windshield (frost in Chattanooga?) before hitting the road very shortly after four. Nobody should ever be awake at that hour. It’s just a bad idea. The children were simply hauled out of bed and shoved into their booster seats. Thankfully they went back to sleep (even if they did awake a few...
This & That (12/05/07 - 12 Comments)
A few notes of varying interest and importance: Prime Time America During the week of December 31 - January 4 I’m scheduled to guest on Moody Radio’s Prime Time America with Greg Wheatley. We’ll be discussing The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment and all things related to spiritual discernment. We’ll be carrying on the discussion for a few minutes each of those days. So if you listen to Prime Time America, well, hopefully you’ll enjoy that....
Great is Artemis of the Ephesians! (11/30/07 - 4 Comments)
There are a couple of things I wanted to post before we head into the weekend… Great is Artemis of the Ephesians! FoxNews is reporting that “Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear ‘Muhammad.’” In response to the riots and the obvious danger, authorities was moved...
Friday Miscellania (10/26/07 - 19 Comments)
It looks like Westminster Books is the first to receive copies of what is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated books this fall: Pierced For Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution. The book was previously available only in Europe, but Crossway secured the North American rights and has just published it. You can read my review of it here: Pierced for Our Transgressions. For just one week the book is available at 40%...
Giveaways, Amazon Reviews, and Forgotten Heroes (10/19/07 - 1 Comments)
This is a compilation of various things that caught my eye this week. They were things that needed more explanation than I could offer in A La Carte, but not enough that they merited an article of their own. The Great October Giveaway Winners The Great October Giveaway comes to a close today. I have already drawn the names of the winners and will be sending emails out shortly. So check your inbox in the...
Sunday Ramblings (07/08/07 - 6 Comments)
Just a couple of things I've wanted to mention but haven't fit anywhere else... Music: - A couple of weeks ago I received Asleep in a Storm, the latest album from Sovereign Grace Ministries. "Produced by Jeremy White, a member of Grace Church (San Diego, CA), the CD features a fresh take on nine previously released songs, plus one new instrumental track from Jeremy. You’ll hear original vocals from Shannon Harris, Vikki Cook, and others,...
Friday Ramblings (06/29/07 - 16 Comments)
School is out! Yesterday my son finished up his last day of grade one and my daughter had her last day of junior kindergarten on Wednesday, so today marks the official beginning of summer vacation. School ends about a month later in Canada than in the U.S. but also begins a month later (the Tuesday after Labour Day). This is a long weekend in Canada as July 1 happens to be Canada Day. Since that...
Saturday Ramblings (06/09/07 - 5 Comments)
For the first time in recent memory, I am at home alone. A couple of the neighborhood children have a birthday party today and my two older children were invited. It is apparently a Taekwondo birthday party. I didn't know such things existed, to tell the truth. I'm not so crazy about the martial arts, but I guess there can't be too much harm in letting the kids hang around, kick each other, and eat...
A Soft Spot for Soft Serve (05/19/07 - 16 Comments)
Here's a topic appropriate to a warm Saturday afternoon during a sunny, spring long weekend (or it's a long weekend up here in Canada, at any rate. Victoria Day, don't you know...). You have probably found, as I have, that as people get older it becomes more and more difficult to buy them good birthday presents. After all, when you are a child you have no means of getting the things you so desperately want....
Thursday Ramblings (05/10/07 - 5 Comments)
I returned safely home from the Cleveland area yesterday evening. It is quite a long drive but one that is still faster, I would imagine, than flying since it allows me to avoid waiting in airports, the inevitable airline delays, and all the other trappings of air travel. As always, it is very good to be home. I'll be here for another two weeks and will then head for Louisville for the New Attitude conference,...
Friday Frivolity (03/23/07 - 12 Comments)
Based on many trips over the U.S.-Canada border in the past weeks and months, I'd like to suggest the top ten things not to say to a U.S. Customs agent (or border guard): 10. "Want to bet that I make more than you do?" 9. "So an Iranian, a Cuban and a North Korean walk into a bar..." 8. "Does this look infected?" 7. "Where am I going? To heaven. In fact, the Bible says..."...
Home At Last (03/19/07 - 7 Comments)
I'm finally back in my office. It was just about two weeks ago that I set out for the Shepherds' Conference and since then I've been on the road pretty well the whole time (I did spend one night here after returning from the conference and before heading out to Atlanta, but my actual time at home was only a few hours). It is good to be home. The house is absolutely freezing since we...
Saturday Ramblings (03/03/07 - 7 Comments)
I spent pretty well the entire week reading my book out loud to myself. You can't even begin to imagine how sick I am of reading (and hearing) parts of that book. For six months I have read portions of myself time and time again. And again. And again. But with 28 days until my deadline, I was able to send nine of its ten chapters to a few friends for their feedback. Chapter ten...
Friday Ramblings (02/16/07 - 3 Comments)
My day began at 5 A.M. today. I have an early morning flight to Los Angeles that should get me to the smoggy city just in time for lunch at the In and Out burger closest to L.A.X.. I'm already looking forward to it. I'll be in L.A. until Monday evening so I can bring blog coverage of the Resolved Conference. Some 3,000 college students (and one thirty year old guy) will be gathering to...
Sunday Ramblings (02/11/07 - 1 Comments)
I had a very long and busy day of work yesterday, so found myself fighting to form coherent thoughts today. So rather than attempt to write something riveting, I thought I'd share a few quotes I've pulled from books I've read lately. While reading Chris Anderson's The Long Tail I found a quote by Christopher Hitchens that tickled my funny bone. In Letters to a Young Contrarion, Christopher Hitchens writes that he wakes up every...
Things You Never Wanted To Know (01/27/07 - 24 Comments)
Just for kicks, here is a list of things you never knew about me and never wanted to. Since we got married, Aileen and I have lived in four different houses. Our current home is the only one we have owned as the previous ones were all rentals. The first vehicle I ever owned was a Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck. Since then I've owned two Toyota Corollas, one Ford Windstar and one Dodge Grand Caravan....
