I finished Donald Miller’s newest book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life. Julie read it before I did and it has sparked vigorous conversations among us. Of course, we were treated to Donald Miller’s humor, transparency and provocative ideas. This book is chocked full of stories that [...]
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“Ay,” he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.”
I still am not convinced that Ernest Hemngway meant no intended allusions to Jesus Christ in the character of “the [...]
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We come to the third and final post on Scot McKnight’s book titled Fasting. We will comment on Part 2- “Wisdom and Fasting.”
First, I want to emphasize again that while I had read a lot of books on fasting and thought it would be hard to read anything new, Scot offered a fresh, creative and [...]
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Imagine a circle of pure spirit beings, ethereal and pure, contemplating God in rapture and extreme holiness, lost in divine wonder. Suddenly another spirit being shows up tardy dragging in a corpse, a human body, into the middle of this very spiritual circle. We imagine gasps, screams and shrieks. “Yuck! What *is* that?! Get it [...]
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We begin a series of posts on Scot McKnight’s book titled Fasting (Thomas Nelson: 2009) with Foreword by Phyllis Tickle in “The Ancient Practices Series.”
Frankly, I was a little skeptical about another book on fasting. As part of the renewal of the church (spearheaded by the so-called ‘third wave’ in the 1980s), I had read [...]
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THE TOMMY NIELSEN AMERICAN CONFEDERATES BIBLE
Written by scholars and historians of the deep south who are saving their confederate money in the hopes that “the South shall rise again!” You will get chills as the glory days of slavery are relived. The “Articles of the Confederate States” are included and explained. Breath-taking, eye-witness [...]
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