Category: Miscellany

Some Changes

You may have wondered where I’ve been for the past week.

Actually, I’ve been right here, but I’ve been thinking through some changes I need to make.

Over the past nine months, I’ve blogged about 25 times per month. It generally takes me 60-90 minutes to do one blog post. That translates into 6-9 hours per week.  The problem is that while I’m not short on self-discipline and perseverance, one thing I have a limited amount of  is time.

I currently have a full-time law practice, I’m an elder at my church–a young church that is really starting to take off–and I’m in the process of writing a book, as well as revising a book I’ve written. Continue reading “Some Changes”

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

New Year’s Day is a day of hope because it is a day of beginnings.  January 1 offers the opportunity to paint on a blank canvas.

It doesn’t matter that this new start is chronologically arbitrary–the ancient Romans celebrated January 1 as New Year’s Day, the imperial Romans March 25, and the Chinese New Year in 2011 is February 3–because what matters is that we recognize a day as the first day.

G.K. Chesterton said, “Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”  There is something about starting with a clean slate that inspires change.  New Year’s Day offers the possibility of that change. Continue reading “Happy New Year!”

Top 10 GOK Blog Posts Of 2010

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I’ve been blogging here since mid-May 2010, and because we are now at the last day of the year, I thought it appropriate to take a look back at the top 10 GOK blog posts of the year, as determined by you. If you didn’t realize it, you voted with your mouse.

1. Should I Not Have Done That?

What better evidence that Seinfeld is life than that the most popular blog post on a Christian blog is based on a Seinfeld episode?

2. On Intolerance

Why intolerance is necessary.

Continue reading “Top 10 GOK Blog Posts Of 2010”

A Thanksgiving Blog Post…Sort Of

I didn’t want to write the typical Thanksgiving blog post, you know, the one about how we should be thankful for what we have and how fortunate we are.

Those are good things, and we should be that way all the time, not just on Thanksgiving, but I wanted something fresh, from a different angle.

I thought about writing a little teach about thankfulness from the Bible with super-relevant, Andy Stanley-like contextual relevancy that would be daring in its brevity and stunning in its insight.

But I couldn’t think of how to do it without sounding religious.  It’s just so expected, like chocolate on Valentines Day, I couldn’t imagine how it could be fresh.

Then I thought of writing something about American colonial history as a segue into addressing American Christians’ penchant for looking at the past through idealistic glasses rather than looking forward to what the Lord will do in the future. Continue reading “A Thanksgiving Blog Post…Sort Of”

Rage Against The Machine – Part II

Yesterday I blogged about the new security measures in U.S. airports that offer the traveler the option of essentially appearing naked to a TSA employee or being groped by one.

I suggested that if Kingdom citizens object to such treatment they do so not only because of its striking similarity to pornography and sexual assault but because it represents an erosion of our freedom, and Christians should be the champions of freedom.

Besides, there is an alternative.

Some history may be helpful here.  You may recall, Islamic terrorists used box cutters to hijack planes on 9/11, so we prohibited fingernail clippers and butter knives on planes. Continue reading “Rage Against The Machine – Part II”