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• Music, Personal

  New Versions of Two Songs

  07.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve had 3 songs on NoiseTrade for a while now, all of them really rough recordings. They were either live, one track recordings, or were recorded with the built-in mic on my Macbook. Not good!
  For STL FamilyCamp this year, our genius brother and fellow board member Marc Sikma had the brilliant idea of sending out […]

• Books, Family, Misc, Personal, Study

  Wisdom of Gandalf

  03.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  “… it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they […]

• Books, Misc, Personal, Study

  Hobbit Wisdom

  03.05.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  “It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he […]

• Misc, Personal, Study, social justice

  Christianese vs. Scripturese- “Pray to Receive Christ”

  01.22.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  We’ve heard (and used) some phrases so much in our churches that we don’t stop to question anymore where they’ve come from. Take the ever-popular invitation for lost people to “pray to receive Christ”. We’ve heard it a lot. Sounds easy enough. Sounds spiritual. Must be right… Right?
  The phrase “to receive” is used in John […]

• Misc, Personal, Study

  More of the Plan for 2010

  01.11.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I hope to focus on one of the following names or titles of Jesus every week this year as I seek to know Him better. It’s too easy too get stuck in a rut and think of only one aspect of who He is all the time, and Jesus is far too multifaceted and infinite […]