Former Celtics star Antoine Walker is broke and in debt

We all shake our heads and wonder how something like this could happen. When is 110 million not enough?

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We need to play this worship instruction manual before each service.

Thanks John Walden

CS Lewis and reading a book 20 to 30 times

Lewis believed that there were some books to which we ought to give this kind of effort. I am wondering if there is any book you have read that many times, excepting the Bible.

Wondering why Max Lucado never quotes from the ESV

Or at least I haven’t found a verse quoted yet. I wonder why. Like Rick Warren, etc., Lucado quotes from every translation known to man (you’ll never find Warren, Lucado, etc., being linked with one translation-otherwise you could stereotype them). But it seems the ESV is out of founds. I wonder if it is because it is the favorite translation of the new Calvinists.

Art and Christ-following

I am not sure exactly why but paintings from various artists working on biblical themes (like those included in the Mosaic Bible) are affecting me deeply. It is like they are reaching into my soul and bringing out affections and spiritual effusions that are sometimes overpowering.

Those who know me would never suggest that I have an artistic bent. I tend to be on the rationalistic, aggressive, extrovert side of things. Music has always been a powerful force in my life, but not the visual arts.

This could perhaps have something to do with spiritual practices I am pursuing that are more contemplative and less focused on “what does this verse say in the Greek.” Actually, let me correct that. I don’t even want to read the Bible in English anymore. I want to read it in Greek and Hebrew. It is almost as if I want “in”. I want to merge with what is good, true and beautiful. I don’t want to be a step removed, looking on. I want to be inside looking out.

My guess is that this is what art offers to me. Not bypassing the mind, but using the mind’s capacity to know to enter into what cannot be known only by the mind.

Trailer “At The End of Slavery”

A documentary from International Justice Mission

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The art of Daniel Bonnell

I have been enjoying the artwork of Daniel Bonnell. I came across his work in the Mosaic Bible. My hope is to include his paintings in our church Power Point projections for Sundays, which I will do after getting permissions, etc. For those who use bulletins with art work on the covers, he has a special collection for purchase.

Men’s Conference promotion like it should be done.

Man up!!!! Driscoll’s “goon squad” might catch up with you.

I wonder if he only talks to men this way.

Today’s Quote

The worship of reason is arrogance & betrays lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice & betrays lack of faith   Alan Hirsch