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Fishbowling the Drummer

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

One of my favorite websites is Stuff Christians Like.  It provides a satirical, yet refreshing, look at trends and traditions in churches.  This afternoon I was reading through the RSS reader and was constantly laughing at the comedy of SCL.  Here is an excerpt from #296: Fishbowling the Drummer (the reason for the plastic screen [...]

Book Review: The Year of Living Biblically

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

After reading a few ministry-related books, I decided for an easier “fun” read. I picked up The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs. As he puts in the introduction, Jacobs is Jewish, but “I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant” (page 4). He [...]

Book Review: Jim and Casper Go to Church

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

I read the book Jim and Casper Go to Church this week. Based on the research of Jim Hender (Christian and former pastor) and Matt Casper (a “seasoned atheist”), this book follows their journey as they visit 12 churches across the country. From Saddleback to the Potter’s House, they visit each church’s [...]

Modern Day Textual Criticism

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Today I read an interview with Daniel Wallace, a prof at DTS and Director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. The mission of the CSNTM is to digitally photograph and document manuscripts of the New Testament. These fragile artifacts, some of which are over 1000 years old, are too [...]

Logos Bible Software: A Review

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Last week I gave in and purchased Scholar’s Library: Gold from Logos Bible Software. What a great purchase it was! I am loving it!! I use it every single day, and it greatly aided me in writing a recent paper for Grad School. Although I am still a novice when it comes [...]

Chris Taylor CD out now!

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Last month the Ocean City Tabernacle hosted the Kutless Acoustic tour. The opening act for the tour was Chris Taylor, an awesome guy from Florida. I had the privilege of meeting him and getting a chance to talk about Ocean City and about the tour. He is a very sincere guy and one [...]

Shout to the Lord: AI Edition

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Apparently this is the talk of the Christian world today: American Idol contestants singing “Shout to the Lord” last night. Since I have not watched the show since Sanjaya was unjustly kicked off last season, I did not see it live. My mom missed it as well, thanks to the DVR stopping 2 minutes [...]

Book Review: God’s Problem

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Last night I finished reading God’s Problem by Bart Ehrman. Ehrman is an agnostic (former evangelical) New Testament scholar at UNC- Chapel Hill. Given his background, and since the subtitle is How the Bible Fails to Answer our Most Important Question: Why We Suffer, I knew from the beginning I would disagree with [...]

Grad School Weekend: Review

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

As I posted earlier, I had the first weekend of my Grad school class on Bible Geography. Great class because 1. it is easy, 2. it is relatively short (not a semester long) and 3. I am really enjoying it. I love learning about the Bible, and so far this class has opened [...]

Happy Easter

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, [...]

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