Fly Fishing Nor Cal
I specialize in fly fishing from a drift boat on the Lower Sacramento or wading the Upper Sacramento RiverNorthern California has some of the best fly fishing in the United States without the crowds that many of the rivers in Montana, Colorado, and Alaska attract. With year-round fisheries for trout, steelhead, striper, and more, it’s hard to imagine a better location for those who love fly fishing!
If you want to get out, you can book me through Confluence Outfitters.
The Practice of Silence in Corporate Worship
How important does the role of silence play in our corporate worship gatherings. Many of us have probably attended a church that was either fearful of silence and/or avoided it for the sake of keeping the attention of the "masses." Many of us strongly resist this...
The Aesthetic Beauty of Scripture
"... when we interpret the Bible according to good hermeneutical principles, we will derive maximum benefit from our reading of the Bible." Commenting on the fruit of good hermeneutics, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation notes nine areas that are affected: To...
Church History is a Pastoral Discipline
Marc Cortez reports that there was an ETS paper presented by Dr. Sean Lucas (First Presbyterian Church) on how every pastor needs to take church history as a pastoral discipline. Marc gives us Lucas' four characteristics of church history that every pastor needs to...
God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment, by James M. Hamilton Jr.
Try and summarize the Bible in one sentence. Karl Barth, author of the infamous 14 volume Church Dogmatics, is said to have summarized all that he wrote by saying, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." Others have focused on a variety of themes as...
Authorial Epistemology in Relation to Hermeneutics
I've been thinking a lot about post-modernism and the various perspectives on how we come to understand truth. Epistemology is essentially the study of knowledge and asks questions related to how we receive knowledge and how we can be sure that what we think is true...
Across the Web – 11/17/11
There's a huge conversation going on right now regarding the mission of the church. It started when reviews started coming out for Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert's new book, What is the Mission of the Church, was released (see Ed Stetzer's brief roundup). Joel...
Theological Smack Talk About Postmillenialism
After Loraine Boettner provides an essay advocating postmillennialism (Jesus returns after a "millennial" period), George Eldon Ladd writes, "There is so little appeal to Scripture that I have little to criticize. The argument that the world is getting better is a...
Would Polygamists Discuss the Foundation for their Theology?
I've noticed that polygamy has become the latest craze in reality TV (TLC's Sister Wives). Given that the interviews I've seen of these "plural marriage" advocates have stated that their "faith" is the reason that they are practicing this lifestyle, I was wondering...
Around the Web – 11/04/11
I stumbled upon an explanation of how one church allows for both covenantal infant baptism and believer's baptism by Jared Wilson. Much to agree with and certainly good to think through. Shai Linne's new album ("The Attributes of God") has been released. It's a great...
Missional Hip Hop: Doctrinal or Practical?
There's a cool conversation going on at Sphere of Hip Hop regarding the different approaches that Christians take within the context of hip hop. I'm really enjoying the mutual respect and thinking that is starting to come out. We're basically discussing the...
