I’ve not looked forward to a trip so much in some time. Sunday after Sunday school Mary and I are loading up in the car and heading north to Indiana for a week, to Pennsylvania for a couple days, and to West Virginia until July 8. For that reason, this will likely be the last [...]
I think I’ve now got an actual working sermon outline for my oration on Luke 7:36-8:3 tomorrow morning. I’ve got a hook, some good exegesis, and enough revisions that it actually sounds like a coherent thought now. Now I’ve got to come up with something for children’s sermon. Apparently everyone involved with VBS this week [...]
I’ve just put a request in at the public library for a Milton Friedman book. It’s only a little 200-pager, so I figure I can use it as a break from Ben Jonson and John Donne and Augustine. I figure some smart people have considered themselves capitalists, so I might as well take a gander [...]
I ought to start by saying that I’m not inclined to read spirituality books any newer than Saint John of the Cross, but Larry, whom I like a great deal, asked me to give Divine Intention a read, so I did. At first I thought the mixed genres were tedious. Each section begins with a [...]
Comps reading bogged down somewhat this week. A bronchiolitis-sick, steroid-raging two-year-old will do that to a person. I am back into Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition today. I’m hoping that the Ooze thread picks up, but if not, I think it’ll be a valuable book for me to have read anyway. I’m also reading [...]
