Churches need to communicate creatively, just as Jesus did Studies by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania show just how media-saturated we are. Among American families with children between ages 2 and 17:
97 percent have a VCR;
70 percent have a computer;
68 percent have video […]
wadehodges.com Archives: July 2002
I’m back from a great camping trip on Lake Chilliwack in British Columbia. We had agreat time with no serious injuries, although my foot was almost seared by a piping hot marshmellow that slid off its roasting stick.
This weekend I’m up on Vancouver Island speaking at a family camp for Canadian churches. […]
I’m off on a church camping trip in beautiful British Columbia. If I survive the mosquitos and a special edition of “Fear Factor” then I’ll be back blogging on Monday.
Images have power over us, but why?
The first alchemist in Western tradition was none other than God himself, who formed humans from the dust of the ground and then “in-spired” (literally, “breathed into”) humans to give them life. We humans simply go on attempting to continue this original creative act. From dust to dung, the […]
Debunking the Myth of CertaintyWhen I read the following quote in Intellectuals Don’t Need God I stood up and cheered, then ran out of my house and down the street shouting “yes, yes, yes.”
The fact that we cannot prove that Christianity is true is no longer the crippling disadvantage it was once thought to be […]
My apologies for the lack of activity on my blog for the past few weeks. Here in the Northwest, our summers are simply amazing. Its hard to sit behind a computer when there is so much hiking, fishing, and swimming to do. When the rain arrives, I’ll have nine months to hole […]
I’m a big Harrison Ford fan, but I’m not sure about his new movie “K-19.” I grew up in the last days of the cold war. I had escape routes planned out in my house and school just in case “Red Dawn” ever became a reality. When I played war games as […]
I have been thinking about spiritual formation quite a bit lately. When I was in grad. school I took a course called Spiritual Formation, taught by David Wray (One of the godliest men I have ever been around). The gist of the class was that the goal of the spiritual life is to […]
I’m back from a great camping trip on Lake Chilliwack in British Columbia. We had agreat time with no serious injuries, although my foot was almost seared by a piping hot marshmellow that slid off its roasting stick.
This weekend I’m up on Vancouver Island speaking at a family camp for Canadian churches. […]
I’m off on a church camping trip in beautiful British Columbia. If I survive the mosquitos and a special edition of “Fear Factor” then I’ll be back blogging on Monday.
Images have power over us, but why?
The first alchemist in Western tradition was none other than God himself, who formed humans from the dust of the ground and then “in-spired” (literally, “breathed into”) humans to give them life. We humans simply go on attempting to continue this original creative act. From dust to dung, the […]
Debunking the Myth of CertaintyWhen I read the following quote in Intellectuals Don’t Need God I stood up and cheered, then ran out of my house and down the street shouting “yes, yes, yes.”
The fact that we cannot prove that Christianity is true is no longer the crippling disadvantage it was once thought to be […]
My apologies for the lack of activity on my blog for the past few weeks. Here in the Northwest, our summers are simply amazing. Its hard to sit behind a computer when there is so much hiking, fishing, and swimming to do. When the rain arrives, I’ll have nine months to hole […]
I’m a big Harrison Ford fan, but I’m not sure about his new movie “K-19.” I grew up in the last days of the cold war. I had escape routes planned out in my house and school just in case “Red Dawn” ever became a reality. When I played war games as […]
I have been thinking about spiritual formation quite a bit lately. When I was in grad. school I took a course called Spiritual Formation, taught by David Wray (One of the godliest men I have ever been around). The gist of the class was that the goal of the spiritual life is to […]
