Posts from July 2009
Book Review: The Prodigal God – Tim Keller
On my vacation I am reading! It’s great! I just finished The Prodigal God by Tim Keller and am going to wade into Peterson’s Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places next. But, I wanted to get some thoughts out about Prodigal first. Tim Keller is the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church…
Love and marriage, love and marriage, USED to go together…
If you are wondering about the effects of the much ballyhooed “Sexual Revolution” of the 1960s then I suggest you take a look at this article. If you are wondering whether or not things have changed in the world then I suggest you read this article. Friends, this is not your world…
Understanding Culture
How do we understand culture? What is culture? How do we help our kids understand and engage culture? These are questions that need to be answered and we need to get our minds around. If we can then we have a chance to be invited in to their realm. Culture is defined by Bill Romanowski as, “the way that we define and live in God’s world” (Mueller, 112).…
>Are you comfortable?
> When I was in the hospital giving birth to Michael I was bouncing around on the bed a lot. My doctor asked me, What are you doing? I said, I am trying to get comfortable. He responded, with the wisdom of Solomon, You won’t be comfortable until it is over. That truth applies to a lot more than childbirth… Posted by Robin Schmidt on July 7th, 2009 I had a…
Appalachia Impact 2K9
I am home in a quiet house trying to process the week that was Appalachia Impact 2K9. It was intense. It was hard. It was a week where God moved in mighty ways in me and through me. It was a week where I saw many students wrestling with the weighty things of God. It was a week where we came face to face with abject poverty. We saw first hand the beauty and…