Archive for June, 2008

Pardon the dust…

Posted: 6th June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

Well, we’ll try this out for a while and see how it goes. The theme is Vertigo Red by Brian Gardner, with some relatively minor page structure and CSS customizations by yours truly. A few things from the old site have been temporarily dropped, most noticeably the contact form, but I’ll be adding that back [...]

Sam’s Spring Program

Posted: 6th June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

Sam’s Montessori school held their Spring and Graduation Program last night, held ironically at our old church, Faith Covenant. We’re moving Sam to a different Montessori school in the fall, so this was his last day with this group of classmates. He’s a bit sad about that, but looking forward a summer with his favorite [...]

Surprised by Heaven?

Posted: 5th June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

I’ve gone and done something rather uncharacteristic for me: walked into a bookstore and purchased something from the Christian section. In this case, it is N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church“. I’ve seen mention of the author many times in various blogs, but have never investigated [...]

TNIV on the ECC website

Posted: 4th June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

I was following a blog stat link (am I obsessed?) and ended up at the home page of the Evangelical Covenant Church, which is the organizing body of the local church that my wife and I were members of up until about a year ago. Anyway, I thought the TNIV users among us would be [...]

The chaos of fear and trembling

Posted: 4th June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

I’m trying to wrap up my much-prolonged reading of Harold Best’s Unceasing Worship, however I seem to keep getting distracted by other projects and books. That said, a passage in his chapter, “What creative people can learn from God’s creation”, struck me yesterday. Best is discussing the contrast between our rational need for order, symmetry, [...]

Calling WordPress theme junkies

Posted: 3rd June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

As part of investigating moving from WordPress.com to a hosted installation of WP software, I’m exploring the suddenly much larger world of WP themes. There’s a lot to slog through out there, so I’m calling all WP theme junkies in Bible blogdom to comment on either what their favorite themes are or who their favorite [...]

A new blog in the mix

Posted: 3rd June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

No, not one of mine. Perusing yesterday’s stats, I found an incoming link from a blog I didn’t recognize: Hanoch, or perhaps more accurately “Hanoch was not”. It looks like things are just getting started, but the blogger is posting on one of my favorite topics, Bible editions – including this post on “the perfect [...]

Monday musings

Posted: 2nd June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

In addition to the previous two posts, I have a few more scattered thoughts to start the week, so I’ll just throw them into one post and follow up later if it warrants greater attention: Dave Cruver of To Tell You The Truth linked to my “most important verse” post on Bible translation as part [...]

Be filled with the Spirit

Posted: 2nd June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

Yesterday morning was an amazing experience of extremes. I woke up late (which I hate to do) and the boys were extraordinarily rambunctious, which I didn’t deal with very well. My wife left the house early to attend the 9:00 service before serving in the toddlers’ Sunday school room at 10:30. In her absence, the [...]

Senator Obama and the Sunday social

Posted: 2nd June 2008 by ElShaddai Edwards in Uncategorized

Note: I very rarely post on politically related issues and don’t intend to make it a habit. I hope that this post is not taken politically, but as a commentary on the role of church in a Christian’s life. John Hobbins posted an excerpt of Senator Obama’s explanation for resigning as a member from Trinity [...]