Friday Ramblings (01/26/07 - 19 Comments)
Sovereign Grace Music is offering a free song written by Steve and Vikki Cook and sung by Vikki. It is from the Everlasting recording that was released in 1999. "I Bow Down" is a slow, meditative song that reflects on the holiness of God. Here is a sample of the lyrics: You saved me the sinner With crimson red You washed me White as snow How I love You Lord You loved me the mocker...
Friday Ramblings (12/29/06 - 32 Comments)
Ping! That's the sound of a pin dropping in the blogosphere. My RSS reader has been awfully quiet this week as I suppose the majority of bloggers are taking a break from the usual commitments. Good for them! Most people outside of the retail world are doing little if any work this week, and those of my friends and family who are working keep mentioning that they seem to be the only ones in their...
Friday Ramblings (12/22/06 - 6 Comments)
Amazon likes to send me recommendations for books I may enjoy. They obviously check my account to see what I have purchased recently and run some kind of a script to determine what other books I may like based on what I have bought in the past. A couple of days ago I received a tremendously helpful recommendation. "We've noticed that customers who have expressed interest in The Bible or the Axe: One Man's Dramatic...
Friday Ramblings (12/15/06 - 22 Comments)
William Wilberforce In February of 2007 a film titled Amazing Grace will hit theatres, though only in limited release (and I'd be surprised if it makes it to Canada at all). The movie deals with the life of "the world's greatest reformer," William Wilberforce. Ioan Gruffudd plays Wilberforce, who, as a Member of Parliament, navigated the world of 18th Century backroom politics to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Albert Finney plays John...
Friday Ramblings (12/08/06 - 15 Comments)
I feel I should apologize about the relatively low quality of the articles I've posted this week. I decided to take a week's "sabbatical" to focus on writing the book. I thought of calling this a vacation, but that didn't seem quite right. In the end I settled on sabbatical since I like the sound of the word and since it makes me feel very professional. I wish I had had the opportunity to take...
Tuesday Ramblings: Thabiti Edition (11/21/06 - 17 Comments)
I had great plans for the site for today, but real life very rudely interrupted those plans. Hence I'll haul out a ramblings column I had hoped to post on Friday. Ramblings are, of course, things I have wanted to say but things that haven't seemed worthy of a post all their own. I also hadn't planned on this being an unofficial celebration of Thabiti Anyabwile, and yet somehow, events have conspired to make his...
Friday Ramblings (11/10/06 - 19 Comments)
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day here in Canada, the day we remember veterans and those who sacrificed their lives to protect our nation. My son's school is honoring this day today in the way many schools do: they are inviting veterans to the school and will hold an assembly. I hope my son looks in awe at the veterans as I did when I was his age, though there are fewer and fewer veterans still alive....
Saturday Ramblings (11/04/06 - 9 Comments)
I got a laugh out of Phil Johnson's post this morning on Pyromaniacs. He wrote "I have part 3 of Gary Johnson's review queued up and ready to go, but I'm holding it till Monday because weekend traffic at the blog is sometimes low, and I don't want the end of that series to get overlooked." I have to admit to doing the same thing, namely, writing an article and figuring that it's just too...
Teach Me To Live What You Say (10/29/06 - 8 Comments)
Some time ago, my pastor posted on his blog asking if anyone could identify the author of a song called "Teach Me To Love What You Say." We sang the song in church this morning and I noted that it is still marked with "Author and copyright information unknown." So I guess he never tracked it down. It is a sweet song and one the children seem to enjoy singing a great deal. Do you...
Friday Ramblings (10/20/06 - 19 Comments)
I want to take an opportunity to thank those of you who have been praying for me on Fridays as I attempt to write The Discipline of Discernment. I look to Fridays with equal excitement and dread--excitement to be working on the book and dread that I will end the day downtrodden and feeling like I just can't make this book work. There have been times when I've felt, almost literally, picked up while struggling...
Thursday Miscellanea (10/05/06 - 27 Comments)
Every now and then I like to collect a few miscellaneous thoughts and compile them into a post, rather than trying to write an article about each of them. Today is one of those times, so bear with me as I ramble for a few moments. Roaring? Yesterday Mark Driscoll posted an email exchange that involved himself and John Piper. At one point Driscoll wrote "As a result of your correction of me there is...
Thursday Ramblings (08/03/06 - 17 Comments)
I had a friend call me up this morning and ask if I'd like to get together for some breakfast. I'm always up for both eating and talking (and especially for both of them together), so I took him up on the offer. By the time we were done, the morning was well underway and my writing time had all but disappeared. But it was worth it. The book review I was going to post...
Friday Ramblings (06/30/06 - 52 Comments)
A Discovery: Bob Cornuke and his Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration (B.A.S.E) Institute claim to have found Noah's Ark. This is not the first time the ark has been found. Neither is it the first time Cornuke has claimed to find a biblical site or artifact. Styling himself as a real-world Indiana Jones, he has previously claimed to have found the Real Mt. Sinai (I reviewed a DVD account of this discovery) and anchors from...
Wednesday Ramblings (05/31/06 - 34 Comments)
Michaela is four weeks old today. Last night was the first time since her birth that I experienced the combination of a bad sleep followed by an early awakening. She and I sat in the way-too-hot living room (we're in the midst of an early heat wave) for a few hours this morning as she tried to sleep and I tried to find something worth watching since my eyes were far too heavy to read...
Friday Ramblings (05/12/06 - 32 Comments)
Alex Chediak - Alex Chediak has a pretty new web site (AlexChediak.com). I should know because I made it. Alex, who authored (edited?) 5 Paths To The Love Of Your Life (my review) is anticipating the imminent release of his second book, this one co-authored with his wife. It is titled With One Voice and should be available within a week or two. Why not root around Alex's site and, if you feel so moved,...
Friday Ramblings (05/05/06 - 59 Comments)
The day after the birth of a child is clearly not the time to be doing serious writing. Thus today I will only ramble, posting a compendium of things that have been on my mind this week. While I managed to get a fair amount of sleep yesterday (never have I been so thankful for a spare bedroom), Aileen did not and had to hand me Michaela long before I was ready to crawl out...
Monday Ramblings (04/24/06 - 10 Comments)
Some of the people who read this site love the book reviews. Other people hate them. Those poor souls must be frustrated as I have posted an awful lot of reviews over the past few days. I can't bring myself to apologize for this. I have had a long and strange week and somehow found myself reading even more than usual. That has resulted in a large number of book reviews (including a few that...
Wednesday Miscellania (03/22/06 - 32 Comments)
There are a few topics I have collected over the past week that do not merit an article of their own. So I thought I would compile a few of those into a single article today. Blue Like Jazz: Matt Redmond sent me an email letting me know that he had reviewed Blue Like Jazz. One particular thing caught my eye in his review. He asked, "Since when is autobiography an acceptable genre for Christian...
Thursday Ramblings (12/22/05 - 0 Comments)
I am now officially on vacation. Every time I take time off I wonder in advance if I will spend more or less time researching and writing articles, reading good books and the like. I always have great ambitions but usually end up spending lots of time just being lazy. And isn't that what a good vacation is all about? So for the next week the posts around here may be the result of lots...
Saturday Ramblings (12/17/05 - 0 Comments)
It is 2:30 on Saturday afternoon and I have accomplished very little today. I guess that's not entirely true. It's just that I have accomplished very little of any great significance. I usually try to make Saturdays a profitable time where I spend a good bit of the day reading, writing and putting in some quality time with the family. For a couple of months now Aileen and I have been batting around the idea...
