I will try a bit more. I am putting words to something which starts much deeper than words, deeper than the part of man which is capable of word-making. I am speaking of a weariness that comes not from the muscles, nor from the mind, but from the soul. If the muscles grow tired of working, and the mind grows Read More

Last year, at about this season (a month later, let’s say), I built a chicken coop. Well, I funded and designed it and helped to build it. After several design drafts it is still a poorly designed coop; the roosts, the primary purpose of the coop, don’t really belong anywhere and get in the way of everything. It doesn’t accommodate Read More

Alan Knox highlights an aspect of spiritual authority in his post today. There’s probably a bit more to be said about the unique role of an apostle, or even the role of any elder, but what Alan points out is the bedrock of authority. In traditional church structures authority is mostly that other stuff not here discussed, and only just Read More

Art Sido shared a video where “Together for the Gospel” luminaries explained why complementarian doctrine is important. Of the three, Tim Keller’s comments distinguishing complementarianism from core gospel issues were the best. References were made in the discussion to important theological considerations, but overall I thought the context employed by the three, particularly Carson and Piper, was far too concerned Read More