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Archive for July, 2007

The Obedience Stage from 2 – 6

Posted in Books, Quotes, tagged on July 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Every father needs to daily spend time with his children between two and six and provide loving discipline with mercy. The child needs to experience the father as being big and strong but also as being actively involved. Physical discipline is appropriate when it operates within clear boundaries. The purpose must be correction of the [...]

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Independence Day, 2007

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on July 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »

 

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Walking

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on July 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »

So this weekend we went on a 4 mile walk as a family.  Well, the youngest two rode in the jogging stroller (a must-have investment, by the way), while the older two rode their bikes, and Elisa and I walked.
I learned a couple things.

a 4.5 year old is able to ride just fine for the [...]

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A New Kind of Christian and The Emergent Movement

Posted in Books, Ruminations, tagged on July 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »

I’ve been reading Brian McClaren’s A New Kind of Christian, and once again I am struck by how similar the thinking of the Emergent movement and the Hebraic Roots revival are.  Of course, they use different terminology, but when Hebraic folks talk about thinking Hebraically and Emergent folks talk about thinking in a pre-modern or [...]

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Life-Altering Belief

Posted in Quotes, Ruminations, tagged , on July 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Years ago I wrote:

Christianity has largely failed to answer the existential questions of life…

Little has changed in this regard during the 10 or more years since I first typed those words to a struggling believer.  I do, however, see a lot of hope on the horizon.  The success of books by folks like Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, [...]

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Thinking, Humanity and God

Posted in Ruminations, tagged , on July 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »

We can describe God, but we can never define Him. We can describe aspects of God, but we can never really explain Him.
If the universe is an intelligible machine—and science is the master screwdriver to take it apart—then analysis is the ultimate form of thought, the universal screwdriver. By taking wholes or effects apart into [...]

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Transformation, Power & the Holy Spirit

Posted in Ruminations, tagged on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

While praying for his beloved saints in Ephesus, Paul requests:
…that you, …may…comprehend… the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
Ephesians 3:17-20 [...]

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