Archive for January, 2006

so i asked for introductions from the people that made it to this blog and as part of the intos i asked for each comment to include a theological question that was on the brain. so i’d like to take a chance to make a response to those questions. in no way am i...
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last night was a good theology pub.  i’m always amazed at who all shows up.  we often start with a handful of people, then by the end we have 12 or 15 people.  when it gets that big we often have a hard time i think keeping everyone engaged.  usually what happens is the...
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for those of you in the seattle area and regulars to theology pub, here’s the info on the next meeting. we’ll be at the stumbling monk in capital hill from about 7-9pm. they don’t serve food, but karen says we can bring food in. so just make sure you buy a beer or two...
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two very interesting comments from my last post from my friends mark and susan kept me thinking about these issues of god having a plan for someone and god’s will.  mark basically said that god doesn’t have a grand scheme for anyone, but everyone has a will for their own life and god kind...
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well last week turned out to be a very good week, even though it didn’t start out well.  it was my last week of landscaping.  what i found out, though, was that i should have quite the week before.  so i am done with that, which is good.  theology pub on thursday night was...
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today has been about redemption for me.  sometimes themes creep into my life for a day, for a week, sometimes for years.  today the theme of redemption has hit me like a ton of bricks.    all day today i sick feeling in my stomach for some mistakes i made in the most important...
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i got a lot of e-mails aside from the comments on our good friend john daker.  i’m glad you all enjoyed it. cathleen probably said it best by saying he needs to “get his shit together.”  probably a little strong on the verbage, but it points out something larger in terms of music in...
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there were some really great responses to my last post, especially mark’s.  i like smart asses personally, because i tend to be one myself, which is probably what gave mark (a good friend of mine) the freedom to be one in the comments.  mark, there’s a huge difference between emotion and emotionalism.  there’s also...
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i know that many people, mostly in the evangelical world, think that worship and music are the same thing.  what i mean by that, is when someone mentions worship, the mind automatically triggers something that resembles a band up front singing and people in a crowd singing together.  theologically most of us realize that...
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The following paragraph is an e-mail I received today from a member of my church (soon to be former church) after a conversation I had with her last night (this is actually one of those ongoing conversations that lasts for weeks).  She also happens to be a parent of the 3 teens that are...
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