Notes from the Trail

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Ben Coulter’s new CD is featured on the Country Music Fans site! Ben was co-pastor of Journey Church for a while before leaving to pursue his music in the fall of 2004. You can get a copy of his new CD off his website…

Hey everyone… for those of you who gave up on Matt Parker ever making an appearance in the blogosphere again, he’s baaaack. Swing by and welcome him back to his keyboard. He’s stepped into the DSL world now, so his 28K modem days are over. He should get some kind of award among bloggers for The Most Patient Blogger of All Time. 28K? I mean, isn’t that gold or something?

I just had to shave my ears. Need I say more?

There is an excellent commentary on Scott McKnight’s blog Jesus Creed, about the issue of Bush and WMD’s (if you can stomach someone even bringing up the issue again!). But he has a great perspective, and I encourage you to read it.

I’ve started reading John Piper’s Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, one chapter a day as an igniter to my reflection and devotion time and am thoroughly enjoying it. You can see one of the entries below about the mixer as being influenced by it.

I’ve also picked and am doing the chapter a day thing with Ron Sider’s book Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. Wow. Very convicting. Basically, it opens up the dilemma about how the average western Christian’s lifestyle is no different from the average pagan’s. Same divorce rate, same abortion percentages, same premarital sex reports, same spousal abuse, etc. (if not higher in some instances!).

Finally, I’m now devouring a book by George Barna called Revolution. Brandi Williams recommended it to me, and I’m loving it. If you’re dissatisified with American Christendom, you need to pick up this book. You might be a Revolutionary.

I’m sure you’ll soon see these three books in my parchment column to the left.