Random Acts of Verbiage

I just realized that last Wednesday, May 19th, was the 6th anniversary of starting my blog! Hard to believe it was that long ago that I started letting my thoughts explode into 1s and 0s on teh interwebs. For good or bad, you’ve got 6 years of my inane verbiage for you to ingest, I [...]

All Saints Church – Bill Berger Hebrews 12:28-19:9 Message Notes “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” -C.S. Lewis One of our church values: Authentic Community – Believe, doubt, seek. All on the journey together. The importance of community: cf 12.28-29: the consuming fire [...]

I posted this two years ago and recently stumbled across it. I like it so thought I would repost it. Summarize your life in a six word memoir, with optional photo illustration. My answer: Happiness is only real when shared. -Chris McCandless It is truly tragedy that Chris didn’t figure that out until it was [...]

I’ve finally had the chance to start reading Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision, N.T. Wright‘s response to critics of The New Perspective on Paul with specific discussion of Piper’s The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright. I’m sure I will have comments about the book at a later time (I do [...]

All Saints Church – Bill Berger – Hebrews 12:18-29 This section is about us living the unshakable life, the life we want, the life that we would go to the self-help section for. We are looking for stability. The Shakable Life: v18-21. Fundamental spiritual approach to life: with our worldview, how do we deal with [...]

This business with Comedy Central, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and censorship is completely ridiculous. I won’t discuss the whole thing, Powerline has up a post, Bleeping Muhammad, that has some great things to read. I want to comment on two things: 1) how cowardly Comedy Central is, and 2) the Muslim double standard. In [...]