Washing Your Wife in The Water of the Word

For the the men of CPC that come by here: In light of the sermon delivered two weeks ago about being the Spiritual head of your marriage by washing your wife in the water of God’s Word and strengthening her theological understanding of Him, see this picture of C.J. and Carolyn Mahaney as he does [...]

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Limping Leader 5

G.K. Chesterson as quoted in Allender.
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the
form of a readiness to die. “He that
will lose his life, the same shall save it,” is not a piece of mysticism for
saints and heroes . . . A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to [...]

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Faster Pastor

The challenge has been set.  It’s Kyle Locke and me to the death (perhaps literally) as we square off Sept 1 in the Midnight Flight 5k.  Any of you others who would like to join us in this fat man jogathon, let us know.  We’ll follow that up with the Spinx run in Greenville or [...]

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On Being Presbyterian: Chapter 1

posted by Patrick Miller
In his introduction, Lucas tries to make the case for
forging an identity (i.e. Presbyterian) that means something when you apply it
to yourself. This is much harder in
today’s world especially considering the blasphemous apostate ways of other
denominations that carry the term Presbyterian in their name. I would probably prefer to be known as [...]

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Laughing Out Loud

This blog is laugh out loud funny.  Worth a perusal.  (see Sacred Cow Tipping)

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Limping Leader 4

“Most leaders had no intention or desire to lead; instead
they were thrown into the mess by being discontent. If they had been willing to endure life as it
was, then they would never have become leaders. The person who merely puts up with life becomes a manager or a
bureaucrat, not a leader”

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Still Possible to be Surprised

It is still possible to be surprised. This past weekend on a trip to visit my
grandparents in Sevierville TN, I experienced the weirdest thing. While walking through a new Bass Pro Shop
(read bored and looking for amusement) I smelled the familiar waft of freshly
brewed coffee which immediately arrested my attention. But this is Bass Pro. [...]

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On Being Presbyterian: A Review

In the coming weeks, Greg Henry and Eric Ashley will be
guest blogging here on the book On Being Presbyterian: Our Beliefs, Practices and
Stories by Sean Michael Lucas a professor and dean at Covenant Theological
Seminary in St. Louis.
The purpose of the review of his book is to evaluate how
helpful this book would be to someone who [...]

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Cool photos.

Check this out, found on Drudgereport and here.  A rainbow and lightning at the same time.  Pretty cool.

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The Bible A Fig Leaf?

Mark Driscoll in a recent sermon highlighted that when people are trying to dodge shame in their lives, through either something that they did, or something that was done to them seek to hide like Adam and Eve by covering the shame and guilt with fig leaves.  He noted 4 main "people" that folks dealing [...]

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