Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

Consuming media has an effect on our subliminal cognitive faculties. McLuhan would say the content of the television that you’re watching is far less important (McLuhan would say that content doesn’t matter at all but I think that takes it a bit far) than the fact that you’re sitting silent and motionless for hours while [...]

In Numbers 24 the Moabite king Balak was so scared of the people of Israel that he summoned Balaam, a man with an international reputation named  for blessing and cursing, to defeat Israel by cursing them. Three times Balak asks Balaam to curse Israel for him, and three times Balaam seeks God and does the [...]

Michael Spencer, who is a Protestant but blogs under the name The Internet Monk, wrote an excellent piece on worship a few days ago. I will print some of the highlights here followed by a few personal comments. If you want to see the entire article and read the comments on his blog (of which [...]

When we lead the music (or preach or teach), we are there primarily for the benefit of the other people in the room. What we are trying do at church is follow Jesus’ example, who “came to serve, not to be served.”  Matthew 20:28
To do this, we partially put aside our preferences so that others [...]

Here is my highest priority “To Read” list, in no particular order.  Tell me yours below.
No Perfect People Allowed: Creating a Come-as-You-Are Culture in the Church – John Burke
Facing the Coming Storm – Eric S. Wyatt
Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods – Mark Driscoll
Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God – [...]

People with no social authority suddenly gain access to previously inaccessible channels of idea distribution
- Anyone saying anything accessible to anyone. No filter, no editor, not time of reflection.
- People who attempt to transmit the authority of printed text to online print are doomed to waste their time chasing heresies. As a result, they [...]

I think it would be right to make a case that Christian believers always stand to lose more than they gain if they unthinkingly embrace every new technology or when they embrace it without taking God’s glory and sovereignty into account.
Last Thursday night I spoke to the youth at my church and one thing I [...]

With proper reflection I believe that we can see what the next story will be, much like McLuhan saw what the next story would be.  A personal example – and boy do I wish I had acted on this! Early on in the MP3 revolution I sat for a few hours and thought and wrote [...]

McLuhan:
“The student of media soon comes to expect the new media of any period whatever to be classified as ‘pseudo’ by those who have acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they happen to be.”
Best example I can think of: newpaper people railing against blogs.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording [...]

A couple of years ago I won a prize at a writing conference for writing the following story in about 10 minutes:
It didn’t jive: foxes and God? What had one to do with the other? Yet here was this brewer, regaling me with stories of how both God and foxes made numerous cameos in his [...]