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 [...]

A few weeks ago I collected some questions from readers here – feel free to go there and add a few more. Below is the second question answered… actually its a series of three questions from Michael Segui. The questions are:
1. What musicians or style of music originally inspired you to take up music?
2. Do you [...]

2009 was a good year of writing for me:
- My blog traffic was up 135% over 2008
- Because of my liveblogging of the Renov8 church planting congress in Calgary, I received an offer to write for a national Christian paper (Christian Week). The first of my six columns for 2010 will appear later this month.
- [...]

A good writer is someone who, regardless of the topic, makes prose sound like poetry. Christopher Hitchens is one, and so is Conrad Black, but I am most often impressed by George Jonas‘ work in the National Post.
Take this piece from yesterday’s Post: “Goodbye to paper, death and faxes”. Jonas is writing about technology – [...]

My 5-year-old daughter Olivia and I wrote a song today! It really was a co-writing effort. She came up with some of it and I came up with some of it. As a habit, I like to demo (which means roughly record) a song as soon after it’s written as possible, and we did that [...]

Calvin, citing Augustine: “I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.”
John Piper: “Writing became the lever of my thinking and the outlet of my feelings. If I didn’t pull the lever, the wheel of thinking did not turn. It jerked and squeaked and halted. [...]

I’m not entirely sure how to start this review. I could start by telling you that I have been aware of Kevin Abell for a long time. We went to the same high school. But that wouldn’t tell you very much about his book and you might think I am reviewing this book because we [...]

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 [...]

In The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible, Scot McKnight explores, explains, defends, and rebukes the various ways Christians read the Bible.
He spends the early pages of the book unfolding his hyper-conservative upbringing – the type that basks in phrases like “God said, I believe it, that settles it for me!” He, like [...]

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t begins like this: “Good is the enemy of great.” And I heartily agree, but it’s quite a paradox to be reading this book at this time in my life.
The Search for Meaning (P208)
Collins writes about “the search for meaning, or more precisely, the [...]