2009
March
17
NBC has a new tv show that started Sunday night: Kings. The show is a contemporary take on the life of David. I had been looking forward to watching it for quite a while. I can assure you it isn’t often that a major television network bases a tv show on a Biblical story. I [...]
2009
March
17
Technically March Madness (otherwise known as the men’s ncaa basketball tournament) begins tonight. The play in game is tonight, where the winner moves into the field of 64 only to get shallacked by the best basketball team in the country. It is a short-lived tradition of mine to host a tournament pick em’ group on [...]
2009
March
16
Wow! What a weekend. And I’m not just saying that because I helped make it happen. It really was an incredible weekend. I’m flat-out exhausted and yet so filled. As I said before, I was at Wildhorse (a Young Life camp in central Oregon) for Sunset’s Men’s Retreat. It was so great to be out [...]
2009
March
14
Sometimes I love spring in Oregon. Cloudless days don’t get old around here. Blogs Mark Driscoll on money, momentum, and morale. A timely topic for sure. Scot McKnight on the role of Satan in our lives. The experience of incomparable value. Some good thoughts on preaching to the younger unchurched. The sleep walking dog…so funny. [...]
2009
March
13
Well I’m at Wildhorse Canyon in Eastern Oregon. It is a very rugged and dry area in the high desert of central Oregon, and it is so beautiful in its own way. The view The camp (the spot with green grass) Much of the year Wildhorse is a YoungLife camp, but they also host other [...]
2009
March
12
A couple weeks ago a prof of mine said this in class: “If Jesus were performing his New Testament ministry today we would be the ones who crucified him.” Weeks later, I’m still not totally sure what to do with what he said. What do you think? True/False? Why?