mhgs

How many seminaries are there where you can look out a classroom window to see Puget Sound, a cruise ship in port across the street, and a faculty member smoking a pipe down by the train tracks?

pirates tres

Some random thoughts that went through my head while watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End late last night:

• "I wish Captain Jack would get some kind of ointment to put on that sore on his cheek. It hasn't healed for three movies now."


• "Was I supposed to …

ecclesia

Between our experience with Pathways, classes at school, personal studies, and our dreams of a future church plant, I've spent a lot of time processing the mission of the church. And yet those thoughts still seem so unfinished...

Dean gave me the month of May to put …

virb

I've not made it a secret that I'm not a big fan of MySpace. Personally, I think the basic concept of it is pretty cool, but it's just so dang ugly I can't really bear to look at most of the pages. Even the best pages look about as attractive as a half-eaten donut …

prayer wall

In celebration of holy week, we partnered with another church in the area to create an experience called Journey to the Cross. At the end of the journey, there was a wall for people to write prayers of celebration, heartache, or thanks. The video below is a time lapse …

of tulips and resurrection

As I pointed out last year, the beauty of spring in the Pacific NW braings a new richness to Easter for me:

Being aware of spring is giving me a refreshing anticipation of Easter. The new life reaching out of the soil is a very fitting reminder of what Easter is about. …

pathetic anticipation

Is it pathetic that most of my day will be marked by an anticipation of the return of Heroes tonight?

spring cleaning

Oh the things you find while cleaning your hard drive...

last week in numbers

6264 air miles traveled

7 nights in a hotel

398 pictures taken

4 theme parks visited

40 rides and attractions

8 naps taken by Ellie (she's perfected the stroller nap)

1 nap taken by Macey

3 length in hours of nap taken by everyone but me the day after we got home

29 …

recent reading

I haven't posted reviews of anything I've been reading in quite a while. I have a few books that I want to devote a full post to, but these are some notable books that I thought were at least worth a recommendation:

Exclusion and Embrace, by Miroslav Volf
This book is …

soundtrack for study

These are some recent finds that are instrumental and getting heavy play while studying, reading, or just working on whatever...

Young Mountain -- This Will Destroy You

Amazon | iTunes

(Thanks to Josh Longbrake for the recommendation.)

The Four Trees -- Caspian

Amazon | …

nt wright: the gospel and our culture

Last week, while mowing, I was trying to catch up on a backlog of audio I've downloaded. Up in the queue came "The Gospel and Our Culture" (streaming audio) by NT Wright. Dr. Wright (or Tom as I call him when I pretend we are friends) presented this lecture as part of …

exiles

Last month, I read Exiles by Michael Frost. I resonated with his prior writing, The Shaping of Things to Come, a collaboration with Alan Hirsch. I was hoping that Exiles would pick up on some of the ideas from Shaping and help to take them further, and it was what I …

finale watch

Throughout the TV season, I've had a growing affinity toward Heroes, even letting it surpass Lost at times.

Well...all I gotta say is that Lost knows how to put on a finale way better than Heroes!