Archive for April, 2009

The Pisgah Taproom

We had the pleasure of visiting the Pisgah Brewery a few times while we were on a men’s retreat with my church. We hit them last year and thought it was cool that they were open once a week for people to come in and try what they had. Some time since then [...]

Bible as PR

I gotta tell you, hearing what both we and our beliefs look like to people who are outside the fence, so to speak, can be a sobering experience. That’s why I appreciate the readers/commenters I have here and their brutal honesty. Sometimes it takes me days to digest what they say and often [...]

Geeks Are the New Seers…

Reposted from an article written 01/08/07

I have the above affixed to a lined black corduroy shirt that I wear as a jacket. My mom got it from ThinkGeek for Christmas. Last night I was picking up some late night groceries and was sporting aforementioned shirt as it was cool and misty out. [...]

What Would It Take?

I loooooove to stir the Twitter pot. It almost always leads to interesting feedback. The other night I tweeted:
To my non-Christian homies out there, what would it take for you to believe in Christ as Christianity portrays him?
I got a bunch of answers including

the ridiculous (but funny):

sushiday @spiritualtramp The knowledge that vampires [...]

Partners in Adversity

This entry is part of Middle Zone Musings’ groupwrite project What I Learned From Adversity:
Growing up, I didn’t have a very good picture of what a sound marriage looked like, much less what I would consider today to be a good marriage. My parents divorced when I was very young and though [...]

What Would Jesus Know?

I was thinking (and let’s just use that “T” word lightly since it was still dark and I was working on cup number one of coffee) this morning about what things I didn’t know and one of those things is whether or not the creation happened in six literal days. One argument that is [...]