If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!My favorite movies of 2005:
–Crash
–Batman Begins
–Revenge of the Sith
–King Kong
–Syriana
–Munich (I saw it on Jan. 1st, but that’s close enough)
My favorite books of 2005 (fiction):
–Gilead
–The Traveler
–Glittering Images
–The Dark Tower (Book 7)
My favorite books of 2005 (non-fiction):
–The Emotionally Healthy Church
–Alexander Hamilton
–The [...]
wadehodges.com Archives: December 2005
I’m preaching twice this weekend at our Christmas services and then I’m off for a week. I’ll probably try to stay away from the blog.
Merry Christmas everybody!
I walked into Sam’s Club two days ago to buy a present for Caleb. On a special display table they were selling “one time only” items. These are items that Sam’s doesn’t usually carry, but for one time only they’re available. One of the items they were offering was a black, 30GB [...]
There were ten chairs in the celestial pressroom, arranged in a semicircle. The podium was front and center. Angels began to trickle in and fill the chairs. None of them knew why the meeting had been called.
Several minutes later the side door to the pressroom opened and in walked [...]
The other day I heard this jingle on the radio:
We wish you a happy holiday
We wish you a happy holiday
We wish you a happy holiday
And a happy new year.
I thought it sounded absurd. Almost as ridiculous as calling a Christmas tree a “Holiday” tree.
Besides, if we’re going to change some words in “We Wish [...]
Sometimes we talk about how Christianity brought the Roman Empire to its knees. When you look at what became of Christianity after it was embraced by the Empire, you have to wonder if maybe the Empire didn’t win after all?
The second section of McLaren’sThe Secret Message of Jesus is called “Engagement: Grappling with the Meaning of Jesus’s Message.”
In chapter six, McLaren gives a brief introduction to the parables, which he calls the medium of Jesus’s message. He writes, “Human kingdoms advance by force and violence with falling bombs and flying bullets, but God’s [...]
Luke 1:5-25
It was Zechariah’s big day. His name was drawn to go into the temple and burn incense at the altar. He would be only one veil away from the Holy of Holies. Geographically speaking, this is as close to God’s Presence as he was ever going to get.
Once inside the temple, [...]
I was standing in Barnes and Noble the other day with my head cocked to the right and randomly scanning book titles in the religion section. That’s when I saw Charles Kimball’s When Religion Becomes Evil : Five Warning Signs. Intrigued by the title I gave it a quick scan, but didn’t buy [...]
In part one of The Secret Message of Jesus McLaren attempts to excavate Jesus’s Kingdom message that he claims has long been buried.
In chapter one, he makes a case for why recovering the essence of Jesus’s message is essential for those who do and don’t follow Jesus. He writes, “In one of my [...]
I’m preaching twice this weekend at our Christmas services and then I’m off for a week. I’ll probably try to stay away from the blog.
Merry Christmas everybody!
I walked into Sam’s Club two days ago to buy a present for Caleb. On a special display table they were selling “one time only” items. These are items that Sam’s doesn’t usually carry, but for one time only they’re available. One of the items they were offering was a black, 30GB [...]
There were ten chairs in the celestial pressroom, arranged in a semicircle. The podium was front and center. Angels began to trickle in and fill the chairs. None of them knew why the meeting had been called.
Several minutes later the side door to the pressroom opened and in walked [...]
The other day I heard this jingle on the radio:
We wish you a happy holiday
We wish you a happy holiday
We wish you a happy holiday
And a happy new year.
I thought it sounded absurd. Almost as ridiculous as calling a Christmas tree a “Holiday” tree.
Besides, if we’re going to change some words in “We Wish [...]
Sometimes we talk about how Christianity brought the Roman Empire to its knees. When you look at what became of Christianity after it was embraced by the Empire, you have to wonder if maybe the Empire didn’t win after all?
The second section of McLaren’sThe Secret Message of Jesus is called “Engagement: Grappling with the Meaning of Jesus’s Message.”
In chapter six, McLaren gives a brief introduction to the parables, which he calls the medium of Jesus’s message. He writes, “Human kingdoms advance by force and violence with falling bombs and flying bullets, but God’s [...]
Luke 1:5-25
It was Zechariah’s big day. His name was drawn to go into the temple and burn incense at the altar. He would be only one veil away from the Holy of Holies. Geographically speaking, this is as close to God’s Presence as he was ever going to get.
Once inside the temple, [...]
I was standing in Barnes and Noble the other day with my head cocked to the right and randomly scanning book titles in the religion section. That’s when I saw Charles Kimball’s When Religion Becomes Evil : Five Warning Signs. Intrigued by the title I gave it a quick scan, but didn’t buy [...]
In part one of The Secret Message of Jesus McLaren attempts to excavate Jesus’s Kingdom message that he claims has long been buried.
In chapter one, he makes a case for why recovering the essence of Jesus’s message is essential for those who do and don’t follow Jesus. He writes, “In one of my [...]
