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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Cesar bit our mom’s dog today and we are worried that we will have to put him down.
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 [...]
My finals are finished, and I have just a bit of reading and a few pages to write.
So here is what I’m planning for the next week, or so, at thedesocios.com:
1. I recently heard a lecture by Darren Patrick about the History of the Emergent Church, and I’m hoping to write a response.
I’d especially like [...]
Whats it going to take to see people being loved?
Whats it going to take to see people finding homes?
Artists finding the Creator?
Junkies finding the Physician?
Whats it going to take to see orphans finding the Father?
Whats it going to take to see neighbors become friends?
Friends becoming family?
Whats it going to take to see,
Blighted brick and glass [...]
Thanks to the Google office in Pittsburgh, it seems that my city has one of the most complete street views available for any city, they even got most of the alleys.
Click here to show up at my house, its the one with the white awning. (The little guy is in the wrong location at first [...]
Yesterday I got a new tattoo.
Four years ago I got my first tattoo, its a verse on the inside of my right wrist that says “Be not overcome by evil but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21″
if you read my post from last spring about how I was thinking about getting a new [...]
“The conventional wisdom of the world says your in it till it hurts, the conventional wisdom of the church say never let them see you hurt, and so the resource around us, the friends, the counsel, the prayer, the support that would help us is not there.”
-Matt Koerber
Matt has been preaching on Luke 16, [...]