Jesus Creed

Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of his salvation, that we and the whole world may perceive the glory of his marvelous works; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and…

Yes here’s the final results of evolution: Manual typewriter … then Electric typewriter … then PC … then Apple. We bought one in 1984 and have not looked back! What’s your favorite Mac story?

Here is our 3 month old grandson with his father learning to “talk.” We love it. 

We’ve got a new President and a new first lady (and a new website). Jonathan Williams has an excellent set of suggestions on learning to turn “them” into “us.” One of our students at North Park doing good. Art Boulet asks “emerging into what?” Derek Leman‘s excellent reflections on “texts” and “textuality.” Dan Kimball asks…

A man is holding here a 20 lb lobster. How many lobster rolls would this make? Or how much “chowda”?

Peter, too, talks about the gospel in his first letter. We begin in chapter one: 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was…

I don’t know why but Google Reader evidently is not working. I have talked with the folks at Beliefnet and the problem evidently is not theirs. BUT … if you subscribe to this it will work on google reader.  Google reader won’t read the feedburner feed from beliefnet although other readers do.     It is…

We begin a new “friday is for friends” series next week, but today we introduce the theme: happiness. I encourage you to purchase and read David Naugle‘s newest book, Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness , if you want to enter more completely into this series. The theme of happiness interests…

Barack Obama, as far as I’m concerned, is not off to a good start when it comes to “change” and ending the “politics as usual” he claimed in his campaign. First, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade he has announced what amounts a contradiction: reduce abortions by supporting and funding abortions. This makes no…

This dwelling, O God, by Thee be blest; and each one who here this night does rest.

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