Matt point out it,
It’s amazing the amount you can accomplish when you find an extra 3,285 hours to work on something you enjoy doing rather than vegging in front of the TV. Those hours helped us create a small network of websites and blogs which allowed both of us to quit our jobs and work [...]
Archive for April, 2009
How much TV is costing you?
Posted in time management on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christians and swine flu
Posted in current events on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How should we be thinking and reacting as Christians to swine flu (otherwise known as H1N1).
Albert Mohler will help you think Christianly about this. In part he reminds us:
Sickness points to sin and sin points to our need for Christ. Luther, Calvin, and all true ministers of Christ know that sickness and death point to [...]
How to study the Word
Posted in Communion: The Word, Spiritual Disciplines on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am spending a lot of time preparing to teach a class on the Bible. As part of my introduction to the students I will answer the question: “how should we study the Word?” Here is part of what I will share. (Credit to Wayne Grudem who has helped me think about this)
With much prayer: [...]
Crash on I-90
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I was leaving home to visit someone having surgery at 7 AM, I heard two loud booms. I thought at first it might have been a gunshot–but they were too loud. Next guess was something going on at the stone quarry near our house. Again, though I thought it was too loud. When I [...]
Revolutions: Printing press, internet, now e-books
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Read how one man thinks that e-books are going to change the world as we know it–much like the invention of the printing press and launch of the worldwide web has changed how we get our information and how we learn.
My father: Dale Arthur Wagner
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today would have been the 80th birthday of my father. I want to honor him on this day. My dad grew up in Toledo, OH. He graduated from high school and worked as an auto mechanic for several years before becoming a police office for the Toledo Police Department, where his job was ‘to protect [...]
Escaping anonymity
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Challies writes, “We need community. We need accountability. And God has anticipated our need by giving us the local church as the primary means of this accountability.”
Amen!
Read why anonymity is not a good thing if you want to run the Christian race well and be strengtehened by grace!
Humor for the “honey-do” list
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A little humor for the day.
One man writes:
Buried deep in the fine print of every wedding vow is a clause that legally enables the creation of what is commonly known as the “Honey-Do” list. For those not familiar with it (read: all unmarried men), the “Honey-Do” list is a compilation of tasks, chores, repairs, [...]
China vs. USA comparison
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mint.com has put together an interesting infographic comparing various aspects of both the United States and China. (HT: Challies)
Adopting and losing a baby
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Take a moment to read this moving story about how the gospel of grace and the kingdom of love moved a couple to walk by faith, carrying their cross, as they adopted a baby boy whom they knew would live for only a few months.
Yesterday he died, and Christ was glorified.
“But he gives more grace” [...]
