Breakfast
My 40 day policktical fast was completed yesterday. This process was probably one of the best I’ve done in my life; the time in peace from politics have given me a lot of time to do better things (like this blog), and I feel much less likely to have a gut reaction to an event [...]
Reflections on a Willow Creek Conference
First, I should note that, contrary to some rumors that have been circulating, I am neither dead nor apathetic toward my beloved blog; I have merely been working like a legalist to get caught up from having taken pretty much four days off of any homework to go to the preaching/teaching conference at Willow Creek [...]
Essential survival gear
I will be writing a post soon on my experiences this weekend at the conference I attended in Chicago. For now, you should read this story to find out about an essential piece of survival gear should you ever become stranded on a desert island or something like that.
En vacances
For the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Fall Break, I have travelled to Chicago to attend a preaching and teaching conference at Willow Creek Community Church. So, I’m writing this from a hotel in a suburb of Chicago, and I probably will not have a lot of opportunities to post until Wednesday. Still, I should be back [...]
My next computer programming assignment…
This is pretty cool. Apparently, they have hooked up sensors to a quadriplegic’s brain that allows him to operate a computer with 70% accuracy. The implications of this are amazing. Does this raise any ethical concerns with anyone? (It may or may not; I’m just curious.)
I just voted.
(It was an absentee ballot.) That’s pretty much all there is to it, except to say that I don’t think that I will ever again reveal for whom I vote. In the midst of my political fast, it was somewhat difficult to make an informed decision, but I prayed that God would guide me and [...]
On the nature of news
What people define as newsworthy has always intrigued me. This intrigue peaked, of course, in the publications of my middle school and high school, but also in the newspaper of my beloved childhood home, the Chappell Register (where “news” consisted of letters from Santa schoolchildren were assigned by their teachers to write). Still, these pieces [...]
The Jesus Seminar Strikes Again!
Dwight Knoll linked to a story about the Jesus Seminar from his blog. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read it, either.
There is no place like Nebraska
After I got up this morning, started my coffeemaker, and took a shower, I came back to my room to decide what to wear. I poked around my wardrobe for a while, but I knew what I had to do: I pulled out my favorite Nebraska Cornhusker shirt and put it on. It doesn’t matter [...]
Thought of the day
D.A. Carson, in his For the Love of God, Vol. 2, writes: We must always remember that: The Gospel is not admired in Scripture primarily because of the social transformation it effects, but because it reconciles men and women to a holy God. Its purpose is not that we might feel fulfilled, but that we [...]
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