January 2012
8 posts
Books read of 2012 thus far
Working the Angles, Eugene Peterson
The Pastor, Eugene Peterson
The Art of Pastoring, David Hanson
The Crucifixion of Ministry, Andrew Purves
Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
5 Jim Butcher books that don’t bear mentioning.
The Graveyard Book, Neal Gaimen
Holy Scripture, John Webster
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
The Warded Man, Peter V. Brett
The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick...
Theology →
Lectures from one of my favorite theologians (Webster)
“Christian scholarship is the human race’s prodigious invention to defend...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
When I get out of here...where are my tic tacs...
I roped my roommate and his fiance into watching You’ve Got Mail tonight. This is what I do when I miss Caitlyn.
Godthings: “[Worshippers] don’t go to church to be... →
godthings:
“[Worshippers] don’t go to church to be entertained. They go to use the service, or if you prefer, to enact it. Every service is a structure of acts and words through which we receive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things best—if you like, it…
December 2011
11 posts
“It was injustice that impelled me to think about justice, not the imperatives of...”
– Nicholas Wolterstorff, Justice
“…And then we experience the fact that we are mute. Yes, we certainly talk with...”
– Karl Barth (via rsf)
BCP: For Quiet Confidence
ptbruiser:
“O God of peace, who hast taught us that in returning and rest we shall be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be our strength; By the might of thy Spirit lift us, we pray thee, to thy presence, where we may be still and know that thou art God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”
“To know its creator, reason must be healed by repentance and the suffering of...”
– John Webster, Trinity and Creation
Otherwise known as why my theological endeavors, as well as yours, are the stuff of worship.
WatchAdvent (by Palmcroft Baptist Church)
My friend Nate Green made this video for our home church. I like it.
“The Lord that means, the Creator of Heaven and Earth became a human being like...”
– Karl Barth, Offenbarung
“Yet the saga of the season revolves around Tim Tebow, the most polarizing figure...”
– Howard Bryant
So this isn't about Christmas...
but not knowing German is a real problem right now. I have lost count of articles in German, like Robert Eisler’s Das Letzte Abendmahl, otherwise known as “the last supper,” that I have needed for my paper. It is particularly annoying.
November 2011
10 posts
Today
Is the first sunday of Advent, my favorite season in the calendar.
“Expectation, waiting, longing, repentance, confession, and being made ready. This is Advent. May God use this season to rekindle our hope in him and to make us ready for his coming.”
As every year for the few of you who get my posts, we will have Advent and Christmas themed posts to celebrate the incarnation and...
“Marley was dead: to begin with.”
– and hello Christmas season.
“A truly evangelical reading of scripture confronts us with a particular story...”
– Godthings:
— Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture
“Never be deluded into thinking that if you have contrition, if you are sorry for...”
– Godthings:
Herbert McCabe, Faith Within Reason
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“It is possible to pursue innocence as hounds pursue hares: single-mindedly,...”
– Annie Dillard (via sarahneff)
October 2011
15 posts
“[T]he basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but...”
– Godthings:
Oh ya, so thats why I wanted to study with Hauerwas.
“My kids are going to live in a cabin in the woods with books and those little...”
– I come into the peace of wild things.: Ranting about technology on a blog is nonsensical.
I immediately agreed with this, and then was slightly disturbed by the thought that I am going to have kids as grossly pretentious about language and books as I am, but then considered the apparent...
“We are not our own: let not our reason nor our will, therefore, sway our plans...”
– John Calvin, “Institutes” (via derekdevine)
“among the best things for a king are firmness without anger, keeping hostages in...”
– The Wisdom of Cormac the Wise, I have rarely been so fascinated by anything in the study of history as I am with “pre-Christian” Ireland. They were a brutal, sexual, and poetic people. Very, very intriguing.
“He advanced until the point of his spear was within a foot of Aragorn’s...”
– Study break in Middle Earth tonight.
“For Adam would never have dared oppose God’s authority unless he had...”
– John Calvin, Institutes
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– — L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via elutz)
Especially in Massachusetts
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“I wonder whether there may be a link between the decline of audibility and the...”
– — Ralph C. Wood, Preaching and Professing: Sermons by a Teacher Seeking to Proclaim the Gospel
Godthings:
My three beers of fall
The standby: Sam Adams Octoberfest
The treat: Kentucky Ale Bourbon Bale Ale
The favorite: Dogfish Head Punkin Ale
September 2011
15 posts
Miroslav Volf
Is coming in November to speak on his book Allah. So I can be a responsible evangelical, I have snagged a copy and intend to read it. Two of his theses immediately stand out and I am particularly interested in them. Namely:
“Christians and Muslims worship one and the same God, the only God. They understand God’s character partly differently, but the object of their worship is the...
“He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and...”
– — Neil Gaiman, Stardust (via elutz)
One of my favorite books.
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“Whenever the Bible is read, a hush should come over us. We should be inching...”
– Godthings
— Mark Galli, Yawning at the Word
Cait and my engagement pictures on Daniel's blog →
If you are looking for a photographer for any reason. Call Daniel. He’s fun, and amazing. And we became friends in middle school when we were both awkward and weird. Those are all reasons to hire him.
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“I doubt if your interests get less intellectual as you become more deeply...”
– Godthings: Flannery O’Connor, letter to “A,” January 30, 1956, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor (selected and edited by Sally Fitzgerald)