Back with a Brand New Edition

Your guide to the music of the 90′s. Best chart ever?                     HT: Z File Under: Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I created tags for both “M.C. Hammer” and “Vanilla Ice”.  Read More

Malts are Male, Hops are Female

“We like to use the analogy that malts are the male part of beer.  You have to encourage them to grow; you have to cajole, manipulate, and control them to make them useful.  Hops are the female part of beer.  They come in many varieties and can easily dominate, can be quite flowery, can be high maintenance, and are often bitter.  (Just kidding…kind of.)” - Christina Perozzi & Hallie Beaune, The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated... Read More

If He Was Really Homeless, I’d Feed Him

The photo speaks for itself. And all you Grudem-haters out there, don’t even bother with whatever joke you want to make about the relationship between Dr. Grudem and “sound biblical exegesis”.  It’s too easy.  Read More

Caution: Think Before You Compliment

Tonight I was in the checkout line at the supermarket when I looked down the lane to the young woman (20ish, I’d say) bagging groceries and thought, “I like her nose ring.” I have always liked nose rings, and I’m not shy to compliment someone about them (or most anything else I like).  My wife has a little stud nose ring that I’ve thought was cute since the day I first saw her.  This girl’s looked similar: just... Read More

The Wrath of God @ 10:30 a.m.

The other day I drove past a church marquee sign that said exactly the following: The Wrath of God @10:30 a.m. Welcome! I wish I could have taken a picture but I had to get back home. There are all kinds of potential points to make here about the uselessness of church signs in  a culture that could not care less what the sermon is about (do they really think that anyone drives by, sees a sermon title, and says, “Gosh I’d really like to... Read More

Some Good Old-Fashioned Foreskin Humor

F. F. Bruce, redeeming himself some from this lame attempt at cleverness, had this to say in his comment on Gal. 6:13: The more Gentiles [the false teachers in Galatia] could notch up as having been circumcised at their [insistence], the weightier the evidence which they could adduce of their zeal for the law.  This was mere scalp-hunting–or (salva reverentia) an apter description would be suggested by the bride-price which David paid for Michal... Read More

5 Things I’d Like to be When I Grow Up

I don’t know if it was an exercise in goal-setting or self-esteem boosting, but when I was a kid, I remember being asked quite often what I wanted to be when I grew up. Even now, despite my clear goals for career and future, I sometimes wonder what it would be like to do it all again. If I could, I’ve listed some possible jobs I’d love to have a crack at: 1. Hype-Man in a Rapper’s Entourage. Albums and albums worth of material... Read More

When in Wisconsin…

Yesterday I drove through Wisconsin with my wife and mother-in-law between a family cabin in Minnesota (10 minutes, by the way, from the town that inspired Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon) and their home in Wheaton, IL.  We stopped at a standard drive-to-and-from-the-cabin place for the half-Norwegian, half-Swedish Thorwall family called The Norske Nook in the small town of Osseo, WI.  Yes, it’s a Norwegian restaurant. Which brings... Read More