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that’s the title of the latest Desiring God blog.  It comes in my email each day and I finally had a moment this morning to read it and had to take a few moments to take in what it had to say.  Rather than try to summarize it, I’ve included it here in it’s entirety. Continue reading “The Night the Angel Didn’t Come”

Tim Challies has posted a review of Francis Chan’s book, “Crazy Love.”  Tim begins with– There are many voices critiquing the North American church today. The voices come from both within and without; from those who love the church and those who hate it. We all know that there is something wrong. But what? InContinue reading “"Crazy Love"”

Interesting article, interesting group selected to respond to the question… Pope Benedict,  Al Mohler, Joel Osteen, Mike Horton, Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll. Has the ‘notion of sin’ been lost? – USATODAY.com

Between Two Worlds – Justin Taylor, formerly worked with John Piper at Desiring God Ministries, now a managing editor at Crossways Books.  He’s a prolific poster, so you want to check back regularly throughout the day.  He has an excellent blogroll. Desiring God Blog – this is the one that comes in my email daily. Continue reading “Blogs I read”

I got to meet Dr. Keller the other night.  He was at UC Berkeley as part of a promotions tour for his new book, The Reason for God, Belief in an Age of Skepticism.  You can read more about the book and the tour here.  I’m working my way through it as I write, butContinue reading “An Evening With Dr. Tim Keller”

A friend got me thinking…  Actually he made me laugh and then aggravated me at the same time.  He’s good at that.  I’ll try to explain.  One of his comments on our community blog which was discussing “Christian” Music, referenced someone I confessed I liked to listen to.  His comment about Fergie, “the Duchess”, wasContinue reading “Counter-cultural Relevance…”

I’m not good at writing on the fly.  I need time to write, then re-write, edit some more and then… post.  And even then, I want to re-write what I just posted.  This all makes for a reluctant blogger, which can be a bother because so much is coming at me to which I wantContinue reading “Sudoku”

I’ve been wanting to write on this subject for some time, especially following Jim’s comments that one Sunday and subsequent comments and discussions that followed.  I mentioned in an earlier post/comment that I really don’t listen to "Christian" music stations much anymore because of the poor quality of music that I hear coming from them. Continue reading ““Christian” Music”

Saturday, February 2, 9:00AM, Redeemer Church, corner of 14th and H Streets, Modesto.  Coffee will be available, otherwise BYMBOC (Bring Your Morning Beverage Of Choice). That’s the basic logistical information for the first meeting of the women’s community group that is being formed at Redeemer.  This will be an every-other-week kind of meeting.  All areContinue reading “Let me be a woman!”

“Oklahoma!”, 1943; “Miracle on 34th Street”, 1947; Arsenic and Old Lace”, 1944.  One of these days, I may do a play that was written in MY lifetime!  That aside, yeah, I’m in another play.  Riverbank Community Theater will be performing “Arsenic and Old Lace” the last weekend of March and first weekend of April.  IContinue reading “Would you like some Elderberry Wine?”