I have an article nearly written but it seems that real life continues to get in the way of blogging. I have about 10 Web projects underway at the moment, not to mention a family, friends and a church that all seem to want a bit of attention! I will post the article tomorrow and…
Today the nominations were announced for the 35th annual Dove Awards. It seems that the Doves will maintain their reputation of nominating popular albums over good albums. The top nominees are Steven Curtis Chapman (as usual), Third Day (as usual), Cece Winans (as always) and Stacie Orrico. Let’s look at some of the categories: Song…
Evanescence were big winners at the 2004 Grammy Awards, walking away with the awards for Best New Artist and Best Hard Rock Performance. Amy Lee accepted the awards on the band’s behalf since Ben Moody left the band last year. Of greater interest to me was her time on the red carpet. She was nabbed…
The Grammy Awards are underway as I write this. I couldn’t really care less about the show since the only two categories I really care about were given out in the pre-telecast portion of the show. The winner of the Rock Gospel Album was Audio Adrenaline for Worldwide. It just so happens I picked this…
Today marks the 100th consecutive day I have posted on this site. I think it also marks the longest I have ever maintained my interest in any one thing. Usually I get enthusiastic about something for a few days and then it tapers off. But this site is still the favorite part of my day.…
It turns out our church, along with giving out about 2500 tickets to The Passion of the Christ, will be distributing copies of John Piper’s The Passion of Jesus Christ. I enjoy Piper’s writings and consider him a very trustworthy teacher, so I am thrilled that we will be giving these out. At just over…
Two years ago I won an auction on eBay for J.A. Wylie’s History of Protestantism. This huge three volume history of Protestantism was written in the late 1800’s and was published until 1920’s. It was republished for a short while in the 1980’s but it was a small print run and is no longer available.…
This Sunday let’s look at what the Westminister Shorter Catechism teaches about honoring the fourth commandment. This is a very traditional view of how the Sabbath day is to be honored – a view that, for better or worse (probably worse), is rarely recognized in Christian circles today. Q. 57. Which is the fourth commandment?…
I recently stumbled across Ochuk’s Blog and have added it to my daily list of stops. Adam Omelianchuk writes “reflections on theology and faith mixed with a touch of politics and a dash of humor.” He writes honest, inquiring interesting articles that make me think…and I like that.
Last night I found myself flipping through channels and happened across a show entitled “The Fabulous Lifestyle of…” Each episode showcases the life of a different celebrity or celebrity couple. The episode I saw featured what they called Hollywood’s most popular couple, Brad and Jen (which refers, of course, to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston).…
This week’s Blog of the Week is CoffeeSwirls owned and operated by Doug McHone. The site’s biggest feature is a daily devotional as Doug writes each day about his one-year journey through the Bible. He allows you to sign up for a newsletter to receive his Weekly Bible Readings via email. He also dedicates some…
I am changing the look of the site tonight, so please bear with me if things look a bit off for the next couple of hours. Update. Well that didn’t take as long as I thought it might. Looks like just about everything is moved over – or at least as much as I care…
1. What Do You Believe? What’s Your Theology? Etc… I am… 2. How Is “Challies” pronounced? It’s quite simple, I assure you. CHALL-eez. Just like that. There is no trick to it. It’s not CHALL-is, it’s not Charles and it sure isn’t Chall-EES. Just pronounce it the way it looks like it should be pronounced…
Theology has become a bad word in Christian circles. It seems that theology is linked in people’s minds with cold, dead religion that cares more about principles and matters of the head than deeds and matters of the heart. It is associated with fundamentalism and with cold conservatism. Yet if we look at the meaning…
Today is the last Sunday Reflection for a while that will contain a hymn. I promise! This is a hymn written by Christopher Words worth that celebrates the Lord’s Day, looks back at the first Sabbath as celebrated by God at the close of Creation, and looks forward to each upcoming Sunday, as “Each Sunday…
Two days ago I wrote about Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie The Passion of the Christ. I asked the questions ‘If my wife was brutally murdered, would I want to see a movie about it? If I love Jesus more than my wife, why would I want to see a graphic, brutal portrayal of His death?’…
Yesterday I posted a Review of Biblical Hermeneutics. In reading and researching the topic of hermeneutics (Biblical interpretation) I ran across a few interesting quotes. I hold that the words of Scripture were intended to have one definite sense, and adhere rigidly to it…To say the words do mean a thing merely because they can…
I have managed to acquire a good bit of Web space and for just a few dollars can get setup with a new Web site. I am undecided if at this time I want to do that, but do have a couple of ideas for a second site. My first idea was based around Web…
Every month or so I like to drop by George Barna’s site to read his updates, which are generally published every two weeks or so. In case you are not familiar with Barna Research Group, it “is a full-service marketing research company located in Ventura, California. BRG has been providing information and analysis regarding cultural…
Forgive me if I deviate from my usual theological themes to discuss America’s other religion for a moment… A weekend like this makes me wonder why I love football so much. Going into this weekend I was cheering for the Rams, Titans, Packers and Chiefs. Incredibly enough, all four of those teams managed to lose…