Here is the link to his letter to the church
Here is the video of him sharing with the church about his leave:

I thank God for him.  Yes, as an apprentice/student in his seminary I am going to greatly miss his instruction and leadership over the coming 8 months.  However, he is teaching me something through [...]

I love to listen to good live music.  The energy of a tight band and a poetic singer who becomes a part of their music.  It is a beautiful experience.  There is something in the air that elicits a response from me, especially if there is a groove.  My heart rises up into my throat [...]

Propositions are important, but they depend on the stories out of which they arise for their power, meaning, and application.  Imagine having all the propositions of faith but none of the stories.  They would be true, but we wouldn’t know what to do with them.
Propositions are shorthand for story.  They stand in for stories that [...]

The Story of Zac Smith from NewSpring Media on Vimeo.
(HT: Justin Taylor)

Denny Burk writes an excellent review of a new book, In the Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church.  This book is the autobiographical account of Gina Welch, a secular writer who studies Evangelicalism by infiltrating Jerry Falwell’s church through faking a conversion experience.
(HT: Justin Taylor)

I was reading through the first few verses of Titus in Greek today when I noticed this.
Titus 1:2-3a
…ἐλπίδι ζωης  αἰωνίου ἣν ἐπηγγείλατο ὁ ἀψευδὴς  θεὸς πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων ἐφανέρωσεν δὲ καιροις ἰδίοις τὸν λόγον αὐτου ἐν κηρύγματι ὃ ἐπιστεύθην ἐγὼ κατ’ ἐπιταγὴν του σωτηρος ἡμων θεου…
My Translation
…hope of eternal life, which the lie-less God promised [...]

My wife had exploratory surgery on Friday morning to determine whether or not she has endometriosis.  The symptom: a considerable amount of consistent pain.  When she woke up from the anesthesia after surgery, she heard the diagnosis, or lack thereof.  No endometriosis, and a clean bill of health.  Reason to rejoice?  Absolutely.  Yet, in another [...]

Here is the trailer for one of tilt-a-whirl (which is a book I am giving away in the Easter Giveaway).

Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl trailer from Gorilla Poet Productions on Vimeo.

Take the time to think through this.  You won’t regret it.
You are made of cells.  I am made of cells.  My cells are built on molecules.  My molecules make use of atoms.  My atoms are mostly space, but the bits that aren’t are called quarks…
Here is the moment of my amaze.  The olive that I [...]

In some sense the most benevolent generous person in the world, seeks his own happiness in doing good to others; because he places his happiness in their good. His mind is so enlarged as to take them, as it were, into himself. Thus when they are happy he feels it, he partakes with them, and [...]