Category Musings

First Baptist Dallas, again

22 February 2013 Musings, Top Stories  4 comments

To see the original post on First Baptist Dallas, click here.

Yesterday I put out a rant on the $130 Million building project for First Baptist Dallas. For whatever reason, that post exploded with readers today. No comments, though.

Earlier I

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Updated a couple of posts

22 February 2013 Musings, Top Stories  2 comments

I recently checked my stats for this blog and found there has been a lot of interested lately in a couple posts in particular, not just from the hits on the posts but from the searches also.

The first post is Casting away the woman in adultery,

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First Baptist Dallas

21 February 2013 Musings, Theology, Top Stories  6 comments

This is something of a rant. Be forewarned. Even though the subject matter is incredibly important.

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Fictitious Conversations: On Penalties for Abortions

11 January 2013 Fictitious Conversations, Top Stories  No comments

Here's another fictitious conversation. Brady and Florentino discuss penalties for abortions.

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Fictitious Conversations: Gertrude and Joadson

21 December 2012 Fictitious Conversations, Top Stories  2 comments

New random series to the blog: Fictitious Conversations. Subjects will change. This first one is between Gertrude and Joadson, talking about Joadson's new adventure: the Army.

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Yep. They’re plenty fair.

28 September 2012 Satire, Top Stories  One comment

Just a bit of satire.

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Wherefore art thou football?

8 September 2012 College Football  No comments

(At the time I'm writing this, the Florida Gators are down 17-10 against the Aggies of Texas A&M)

Go, Gators.

I have long been a fan of the University of Florida Gators.  I started as a football fan in the very earliest years of Steve

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My top 5 books read in 2010

4 January 2011 Book Review, Featured Highlights, Top Stories  One comment

I always enjoy checking over people's favorite books lists for the year, and wanted to list my own. Not that anyone's waiting for it or truly interested, but it's a fun exercise either way.

In 2010, I read some excellent works, most of which were

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Remember the Incarnation: the making of

19 December 2010 Design, Featured Highlights  4 comments

I wanted to create a Christmas card this year. Homemade. Handmade. Something special and personal. I remembered our letterpress (a Showcard Machine, model 7-11; it'll handle 7x11" print work), and that I still had a couple 2x3" linoleum blocks.

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DVD review: What’s In the Bible? 4

3 November 2010 Book Review, Featured Highlights  3 comments

This is the first What's In the Bible? DVD my family has watched, and it will not be the last.

Oh, wait. Am I supposed to give my conclusion at the beginning of the review?

Ah well.

If you're not familiar with the What's In the Bible

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Blog a Qur’an Day: Surah 25:60-66

11 September 2010 Featured Highlights, Islam  3 comments

Muhsin Khan
And when it is said to them: "Prostrate to the Most Beneficent (Allah)! They say: "And what is the Most Beneficent? Shall we fall down in prostration to that which you (O Muhammad SAW) command us?" And it increases in

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Walking through The Apocalypse, i.1-3

21 June 2010 Featured Highlights, Greek Translation  3 comments

Walking through The Apocalypse, translating from the Greek as a continuing student of the language and the Scriptures, and bringing up points I find interesting and significant along the way.

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His Story of Shalom…An Introduction

6 April 2010 Featured Highlights, Nonviolence, Old Testament  No comments

I have been participating in the women's Bible studies that our church has been offering over the past couple of years. I have really enjoyed those studies and God has always used

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Rejecting alternatives, and a book to give away

24 March 2010 Featured Highlights, Nonviolence  4 comments

The advocate of war cannot say there is no other recourse before weighing nonviolent alternatives.
That's from chapter 7 of John Howard Yoder's The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking, edited by Glen Stassen, Mark Thiessen

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This whole Beck affair

13 March 2010 Featured Highlights, Theology  2 comments

If you are not sure what's going on with this uproar over Glenn Beck, that's alright. He likes to cause a ruckus. But this one is fairly problematic. For some quick catch up, check out this intro by Eugene Cho, then Glenn Beck's response, and then

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Because words matter

12 March 2010 Anabaptist, Featured Highlights, Theology  3 comments

Words matter. What we say, what we recite, what we repeat. All of it matters. And the meaning behind the words we say matter just the same.

For this reason a Christian must never deny Jesus, especially to save their own life. Many have said they

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