Today’s my birthday.

Our staff is going to P. F. Changs for lunch to celebrate.

Tonight Heather is cooking me a special meal.

Caleb wished me happy birthday this morning and then when I left for work he asked his mommy why daddy has to go to work on his birthday.

The Ooze has Richard Foster’s latest thoughts on Spiritual Formation.

You can probably detect that I am not overwhelmingly encouraged by the popular expressions of Spiritual Formation today. Im not; too much is too faddish and too formulaic for me to be optimistic. And yet, we stand at a moment of great opportunity. Human need today is so obvious and so great that no honest person can deny it. People stagger under the burden of human wickedness. Evil is an open, oozing sore. Therefore superficial, half-answers will not do. Not anymore. Today, there is a great new fact in the contemporary interest in Spiritual Formation. And I view it as a source for enormous hope. This great new fact is the widespread belief that we can no longer bypass authentic, pervasive, thorough transformation of the inner life of the human being.

Before I left for Oklahoma City I predicted that it would be a fun experience. Turns out I was wrong.

I’m glad to be back in the office getting some stuff done.

I’m off to the Bible lectures at Oklahoma Christian University. I’m teaching a couple of classes down there about mission and evangelism in North America. I haven’t been to these lectures before, so I don’t quite know what to expect, but it should be fun.

John Stossel unveils the Top 10 Media-Fed Myths.

10. Getting cold can give you a cold.
9. We have less free time than we used to.
8. American families need two incomes.
7. Money can buy happiness.
6. Republicans shrink the government.
5. The rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes.
4. Chemicals are killing us.
3. Guns are bad.
2. We’re drowning in garbage.
1. The rivers around New York city are toxic.

Are these myths debunked just because John Stossel says so? How do we really know?