My Jesus is weak.

I must repent, I have a defective view of who Jesus is. My defect is not that I put too much into my view of who Jesus, but too little. I know in my head that he is my propitiation, but his propitiation is too weak. I know the doctrinal truths of the historic creeds, [...]

Jan. 15, 2008
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Pittsburgh

Teaching on:An American View of Wealth

In March I will be leading a discussion about wealth and perceptions of wealth in America. The discussion is put together by City Reformed Church, and is part of their Spring Discussion Series: “rethink:Gender, Money, and Power”.
To prepare for the talk I have picked up a few books on the topic of wealth, money and [...]

Jan. 1, 2008
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Books · Christianity · Life · Pittsburgh

Makin’ It Great in 2008: Gettin’ it Done.

I’m not making any resolutions, but I do have some goals for 2008.
#1 To Read at least 4 Christian Classics. I hoping to read The Coming of the Kingdom, Lectures on Calvinism, Biblical Theology, and maybe Lectures to My Students.
#2 Go on a sweet vacation with Jo. I think we are looking into renting a [...]

Dec. 29, 2007
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Faith · Life · Pittsburgh · Vacation

Post-Christmas Wrap Up

I haven’t writer a lot in the last few weeks. We are on our way back to the Burgh, and I’m looking forward to being home. We had a great time with both our families and tomorrow I get to preach at City Reformed.
Everyone was really great to us, and we got a ton of [...]

Dec. 26, 2007
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Pittsburgh

Cesargate 2

We have decided we can’t keep Cesar, he was aggressive to David today when he came home. We just don’t know what to do with him now.
Pray for us.

Dec. 25, 2007
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Pittsburgh

A very sad Christmas

Cesar bit our mom’s dog today and we are worried that we will have to put him down.

Dec. 21, 2007
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Acts 29 · Culture · Sad

Baptists Ban Acts 29

David Krueger recently posted about the Missouri Baptist Convention’s recent ban on any of their churches working with or cooperating with the Acts 29 Network.
Here is the statement made by the MBC:
Effective Jan 1, The Acts29 Network is an organization which the MBC Exec Bd. Staff will not be working with, supporting, or endorsing in [...]

Dec. 12, 2007
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Culture · Funny

One of the Funniest Simpsons in Long Time

I haven’t seen a Simpsons that made me laugh this much in a long time.

Pittsburgh Schools Grant Scholarship to Graduating Seniors

The Pittsburgh Public School District is developing a massive scholarship program for all their High School graduates. The plan would give each student $5,000 each year toward college, until 2010 when that sum could be raised to $10,000 a year if students passed the state graduation test.
The catch is that you have to be [...]

Dec. 11, 2007
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Funny · Life

Something my wife said:

“I never knew that Mario was Italian, but I did think he looked like a pizza guy.”