Mar. 13, 2008
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Life · Pittsburgh

Apple SDK and the Hope of an Unplugged Tmrw

In my head I see two massive ideas mashing into each other, and the resulting future could be wonderful.
As many of you know Apple recently announced their plans to allow 3rd party software on the iPhone. At the same time I recently read a few posts over at Joe Thorn’s blog about his “New Laptop“, [...]

Mar. 12, 2008
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Life · Pittsburgh

Overheard Dating Advice from the Girl at Kiva Han

“Its all about moderation its all about limits, so that they can’t see how much of a F***ing monster you are.”

Feb. 29, 2008
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Art · Life · Pittsburgh

Great Art Site

I came across Nucleus Gallery today. Jo and I are always looking for cool original art for our house, maybe we will be ordering some from this site.

The Battery Life of Christian Cultural Influence Cont.

After about a month of not finishing this article I finally took some time to sit down and complete my thoughts on this issue.
The percentage of “churched” Americans has continued to rise over the last 100 years. Yet at the same time there is a sense that especially since the 1960’s there has been a [...]

The Stupidity of the Cross

Here is the audio from my latest sermon at RPTS, the text I preached from was 1 Corinthians 1:18-19, the Sermon was entitled The Stupidity of the Cross.

The Way Christians Used to Live

For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity. The course of conduct which they follow has not been [...]

The Battery Life of Christian Cultural Influence

It will not take you very long to find some Christian speaking, or writing about the waining of American Christian culture. In fact I bet it would be hard to find a Christian who has not personally thought about subject or has heard it from a friend or relative. The body is filled with “rumors [...]

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. 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.”