In honor of the beginning of Major League Baseball. Here’s a quote from “Bull Durham.”
Stop trying to throw so many strikeouts. Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they’re fascist. Try getting some ground balls. It’s more democratic.
God Bless America and her pastime – BASEBALL!
Archive for March, 2008
Sunday Weekly Quote
Posted in Quotes, tagged Baseball, Bull Durham, Movies on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Atonement in the Gospel of Mark – Bibliograpy
Posted in Atonement, Book Reviews, Israel, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Salvation, tagged Atonement, Bibliography, Gospel of Mark on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, sports fans, it’s been quite a wild past couple of weeks. I’ve been back and forth from Alabama and Kentucky. And in between spring fever and spring papers, things have been getting pretty hectic. I just finished a paper for Dr. Schreiner’s class – New Testament Theology – on the atonement in the Gospel [...]
Sunday Weekly Quote
Posted in Quotes, tagged Early Church Fathers, Easter, Resurrection on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In celebration of Easter (Resurrection Sunday), here’s a selection from I Clement on the presence of resurrection in nature:
1 Clem. 24:1 Let us understand, dearly beloved, how the Master continually showeth unto us the resurrection that shall be hereafter; whereof He made the Lord Jesus Christ the firstfruit, when He raised Him from the dead.
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An Echoing Voice
Posted in Eschatology, tagged Community, N.T. Wright on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, I’ve been working my way through N.T. Wright’s book Simply Christian. I’m very intrigued by his ideas and even the way he presents them. But there’s something specific about the opening chapters of his book that I think we could all agree with. That is while we live in a broken society, a world [...]
Thomas Linacre On the Gospel
Posted in Quotes, Story Time on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Realizing, that I missed the Sunday Weekly Quote, here’s a delayed one from former (16th Century) Anglican Priest, Thomas Linacre. He had studied to be a lawyer, but after years in that profession, he decided that the life of the clergy was the life the Lord would have him live. In that time, common people [...]
An Open Apology
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, I feel the need to say I’m sorry to anyone who has happened upon my blog in the last week: to the three and a half of you, “I’m sorry.” I’ve been out of town for one of my best friend’s wedding. It was awesome, and I couldn’t have picked a better reason to [...]
“The Kingdom of God” – Francis Thompson
Posted in Poetry, tagged Francis Thompson, Kingdom of God, Poetry on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Admittedly, I don’t know much about poetry, but I have recently come to enjoy reading more and more. So, I would like to share one of my favorite poems from the last couple months called “The Kingdom of God” by Francis Thompson. I won’t tell the story here, but for those who are intrigued by [...]
Hurdles on the Josephus Bowl
Posted in Humor, Story Time, tagged Fun, Hurdles, Josephus Bowl, Mud, Snow, Southern Seminary on March 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I’ve been mistaken for a lot of things in my brief tenure on this planet. When I’ve had a clean-shaven face, I have been mistaken for a 15 year-old (I am currently 23). I’ve ordered at drive-thrus and been called a “ma’am,” but I am definitely a “sir.” I’ve been a Calvinist mistaken for an [...]
Packer Suspended as a Minister?
Posted in Cultural Issues, Ecclessiology, tagged Anglican Communion, Homosexuality, J.I. Packer on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Justin Taylor has an interesting post over at his site today (as he does many times in one day). For those of you who don’t know, J.I. Packer has been a staple in the conservative evangelical movement for nearly 50 years. Now, unless the ministers of St. John’s Church, where Packer serves, give a satisfactory explanation [...]
Contract Vowels Be Damned!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blogs, Contract Vowels on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A good friend of mine, Bryan, recently had to change the name of his blog. The problem came from an error in Greek composition regarding “contract vowels.” Now he’s had the blog for quite some time, but only recently has anyone pointed the mistake out to him (* I was not that someone; even after [...]
