Goodreads Comment (11.6.2009): “The Bean Trees,” Barbara Kingsolver
As part of my experimentation with Goodreads for this blog “New City,” I share in this blog article a comment I made on my initial reading of Barbara Kingsolver’s book The Bean Trees (New York: Harper, 2003).  As far as Bible quiet time notes go, I read Esther 9-10 as my quiet time chapters from [...]

Bible Quiet Time Notes (11.5.2009): Fighting Idols and Resting in the Name of Christ with the Lord,
Bible quiet time chapters for this morning: 2 Chron. 13-14 Selected passage of the aforementioned chapters for reflection: “Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God, for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and the high places, and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden [...]

Bible Quiet Time Notes (11.4.2009): God the Conqueror of Armies of Idols, and God the Author of New
As my follow up to my blog article yesterday, here is my initial experiment of writing out my Bible quiet time notes for blog readers, hopefully to be done on a regular basis.  Similar to the way I wrote out my quiet time reflections on Twitter, my intended format for these quiet time notes is [...]

Tinkering with the Monster (Just Don’t Say “Glue” in German Around the Horses)
As the title indicates, I had a blast this past Halloween weekend by encountering Mel Brooks’ classic movie Young Frankenstein as a diversion of sorts from the suffering I alluded to in my blog article last Friday.  You just don’t see movies made with that kind of comic genius these days.  Anyway, I have decided [...]

Emmanuel Sermon Notes (11.1.2009): Stir Up One Another
This blog article features notes from my pastor Scott Seaton’s sermon from this past Sunday, for the preaching series that Scott was doing out of the “one another” passages of the Bible for Emmanuel.  I had mentioned in my previous blog article of sermon notes that the sermon discussed would be the last sermon for [...]