Apr. 16, 2008
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Life

Hiatus

I am taking a month long break from my psuedo-regular blogging. I need to concentrate on Graduating and on Ordination exams which are coming up in May.
Pray for me.

Apr. 14, 2008
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Pittsburgh

What The Heck?

totally speechless……..

Apr. 8, 2008
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Sad · Bad Theology

Really Bad Theology

Sometimes you click on a few sights and you can’t help but link to the videos.
Two crazy videos with Benny Hinn, both are absurd, and a bit sad.

This last one is a little more subtle but read these quotes about and from Jesus afterward.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and […]

Apr. 3, 2008
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Urban Missions · Culture · Sad

Everything Changes, Yet Remains the Same.

All Europe is coming across the ocean, all that part at least that cannot make a living at home, and what should we do with them they increase our taxes, eat our bread, and encumber our streets and not one in 20 is competent to keep himself.
New York Resident Philip Holme 1840’s.

Mar. 31, 2008
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Art

Death, Life and Brokeness:Dialoguing with “The Fountain”

Last night my wife and I watched Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain. The film started Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The visual mood set by the film was simply beautiful. The plot of the film revolves around Jackman and Weisz as they are played out in three time periods set hundreds of years apart, 1500’s, 2000’s […]

Mar. 25, 2008
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Pittsburgh · Life · Funny

The Church or the Church in Reaction?

I heard a lecture recently where the speaker was talking to Alan Hirsch about his banging of the missiology drum almost to the exclusion of everything else. Hirsch’s response was that the rest of the church is going one way so much, that he is seeking to strike a balance by going the other way. […]

Job Offers, Graduation and Exams

Since the cat is out of the bag at church,I’ve decided to announce, that I have been offered the Assistant Pastor position at City Reformed Presbyterian Church. For those of you who don’t know, City Reformed is a PCA Church located in the center of Pittsburgh’s most densely populated neighborhood, which happens to be the […]

He Has Risen Indeed?

I was talking to one of the elders at my church after our Easter service, and we were discussing the historic Easter greeting: He has risen. He has risen, indeed!
This elder and I were talking about how we use a phrase once a year, that many people might really understand. This elder said that he […]