Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

This week I reached a bit of a milestone. The appearance of a column entitled “Rescuing Worship” marks my first work published in a nation-wide publication – in this case, “Christian Week”. I will be doing a series of these posts throughout 2010 under the column heading “Worship Matters” (apologies to Bob Kauflin).
Here are the [...]

These posts will be a series of study notes and questions for the book that our Life Group is studying together. The book is “Upsidedown” by Tim Bailey. You can read a review of the book and order it here. Feel free to read along and join the discussion in the comments section below. The [...]

(One caveat: the answer to many of these is of course “the Bible”)
1. One book that changed your life:
“Thoughts In Solitude” – Thomas Merton
Not because it was the best book of his that I read but because it was the first of his that I read.
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
I read [...]

For those of you who aren’t aware (I wasn’t until last week), renowned theologian and scholar D. A. Carson posts regularly on his blog at The Gospel Coalition website. Carson’s blog is called “For the Love of God“. The blog provides little commentary on current events and controversies but is instead more like a running [...]

If you are looking to have a large mural painted or a portrait sketched, I must recommend the work of artist Pete Siemens.
Below are some samples of his work. You can see more of his work at his site found here.
Contact Pete at psiemensart@yahoo.com or call (519) 691-6814.
This is one of my favorites – a [...]

Thanks to TSK, the Emerging Church is now dead. TSK says that it was like that when he got there, but the investigation is still underway.
But move on we must, and we now enter the era of reflecting on the good and bad of the movement… like Dan Kimball does here as he reflects on [...]

Like a good Christian music listener, you look at lyrics before you listen to music. Good for you. This of course keeps us all safe from “bad” music, right?

Let’s be blunt: to think that a lyric alone is what makes a song bad or good defies reason. After all, the whole point of a song [...]

***This is a series of posts based on writing I did on personal retreat in October 2009. Read earlier posts in the series here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |Part 5|Part 6|Part 7***
I have become accustomed to constant self-expression. Twitter, Facebook, Blog – these are outlets for me, channels [...]

I can’t stay awake to watch any of the late night shows but I have seen them from time to time. I have always thought Leno was by far the weakest of the three. I like Conan, but I think Letterman is the best. Here is Letterman explaining the current late night upheaval as only [...]

“We have no reason to be anxious, every reason to be joyful, and fewer reasons than we think to be offended.”
I only started reading Kevin DeYoung a few months ago but he is quickly making his way to the top of my reading priority list. In this recent post titled “Why Are We So Offended [...]