always wanted my name painted on the office door.
No, not MLK… c’mon, have some respect. Here’s the [audio of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech](http://kpmartin.www62.a2hosting.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/IHaveADream.mp3), given on August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Now that I’ve started to become more familiar with Lincoln, the speech strikes me as very like Lincoln’s work. Not too long. Elegant language. Rich [...]
[Here's a fun spoof](http://www.thinkchristian.net/?p=960) of the “I’m a Mac. I’m a PC.” ads. Fun. :) **Update:** Oh good heavens… I said “fun” twice in the span of less than a dozen words. I hang my head in shame. Look, it was late.
Anna talks non-stop during the whole drive to her ballet class. This evening she was cheerfully chattering… “…and I think that it should be a law that you have to read the *whole* Bible before you start a church. That way there wouldn’t be any Catholics or Lutherans. Only Baptists.” “No, honey, they’ve read the [...]
More [proof](http://kpmartin.www62.a2hosting.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/Yours_Truly_Johnny_Dollar_56_00_00_Thanksgivingmessag.mp3) I was born in the wrong era; a nice message from my favorite old time radio drama. [Click here to listen.](http://kpmartin.www62.a2hosting.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/Yours_Truly_Johnny_Dollar_56_00_00_Thanksgivingmessag.mp3) In case I don’t get to posting this week, have a happy Thanksgiving. :) > Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!(II Cor. 9:15)
It was last Saturday afternoon for me. This Rotten Little Girl decided she was going to use the street in front of my house for her own Jerry Springer set and beat up a smaller girl. I got in between them before it got anywhere and tried to send them on their separate ways. But [...]
[1]: http://kpmartin.www62.a2hosting.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/esv-tr.png [2]: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/servlet/SwordMod.Verify?modName=ESV&beta=true&pkgType=mac The English Standard Version is a fairly new English translation of the Bible which, as I understand it, tries to be as literal to the text as possible while trying to avoid some of the sometimes wooden phrasing found in very literal translations like the New American Standard. I tend to [...]
“It’s a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.”
[1]: http://www.nabs.edu/ When in Sioux Falls last week (which I’ll be posting about later), I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Thompson of the [North American Baptist Seminary][1]. We had a very nice conversation over a very nice mocha. One of the things we talked about was a document that he co-authored callled [...]
In the car I heard a commercial for a Bible with study notes – like a Life Application Bible or something. During the commercial they said something like “over 10,000 notes make God’s Word relevant!” Oh, puh-leeze. Let me thank the note writers on God’s behalf for going that extra mile and filling in the [...]
[1]: http://www.consumer-culture.org/ [2]: http://www.maclaurin.org/ My friends at [The MacLaurin Institute][2] are helping to bring the ["Christianity in a Consumer Culture" conference][1] to the U of M campus this weekend. I might try to take in some little bit of it, though Kenny got strep (again), so that will mix up the weekend a bit. Looks [...]