WardWritings: 2009

Looking ahead

So I was driving home tonight from work and I immediately turned my radio to 720 AM to see if the Cubs were still playing. Ahh, the comforting voices of Pat and Ron telling me that Ryan Theriot was coming up to bat.I love listening to Cubs games. Really I enjoy listening to just about any baseball game on the radio. There's just[...]

by Unknown ~ Monday, August 31, 2009 0 comments

Are we the new Pharisees?

I wrote this in response to a blog that I read giving ideas for revisions to allow for the drinking of "de-alcoholized wine." These would've been revisions for the manual in the Church of the Nazarene. If you're not Nazarene don't think that this can't apply to you. Many American Protestants hold on to the same beliefs about alcohol.[...]

by Unknown ~ Saturday, July 25, 2009 3 comments

What Matters More???

Wow! For those of you who followed the Derek Webb fiasco to the end... Congrats are in order. I did the best I could and was there compiling music at the very end of it. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, it's ok. Please keep reading!One of my favorite Singer Songwriters is Derek Webb. He recently released[...]

by Unknown ~ Friday, July 24, 2009 5 comments

To Neda

I woke up Saturday morning to the sound of my cell phone's alarm clock. I turned it off quickly so that I wouldn't accidentally wake up my son Caedmon. I rolled around for a while and waited for him to get up. When I finally heard him talking in his crib I got him and we went downstairs[...]

by Unknown ~ Monday, June 22, 2009 0 comments

Give a What???

I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a shit. What’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night-Tony CampoloDerek Webb[...]

by Unknown ~ Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1 comments

Missing Link?

"Unless we are actively looking or listening for something, there is a real and distinct possibility it will simply fail to reach our conscious awareness, at least not at the levels that are desired" -Dr. Richard G. CollingI realize that I am about to tread on some dangerous territory.[...]

by Unknown ~ Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9 comments

New Camera

This is the Madison St. Bridge in Chicago, IL. I'm playing with my new camera. Notice how the light streaks below the bridge. Thanks to pastorbuhro for showing me how to do that. I'm having fun with it and being in Chicag[...]

by Unknown ~ Thursday, April 23, 2009 2 comments

Beautiful Reconciliation

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created...all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together... For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and[...]

by Unknown ~ Thursday, April 09, 2009 1 comments

More Than a Fairy Tale

My wife is amazed by some of the most common things. At least, those things that I have always viewed as common. She is amazed at how cell phones work or the internet. She doesn't grasp the concept of different algorithms of code being send via electricity through a wire into a metal[...]

by Unknown ~ Wednesday, April 08, 2009 0 comments

Eco Theology

I just transfered all of my posts from another blog I've had to this blog. There are a couple reasons I did this. One reason was for efficiency. It's easier to maintain one blog vs. two. I've already proven that it's difficult for me to maintain the one so and I don't want to entirely abandon the other blog I had started. Another[...]

by Unknown ~ Wednesday, April 08, 2009 0 comments

Pomo Part 2

Back in September of '05 I posted some of my general feelings about postmodernism. I would like for you to read it and then read this post. There are a couple of reasons. First of all, you'll understand what I'm talking about when I make a reference to it. Secondly, and probably most important, you'll realize one of the purposes[...]

by Unknown ~ Tuesday, April 07, 2009 2 comments

Tweeting in church!

The other day I read this post on a blog that I recently began reading.Tweeting during churchHere was my response...I think your reaction is a little overboard. At one point in time paper notes for the sermon was a new thing, then we had power point. I don't see the difference between asking people to write down notes from the sermon[...]

by Unknown ~ Monday, April 06, 2009 3 comments

So I'm a Turtle

TurtleTo many guys my age this may sound cool. If you're around 25 years old and a male your first thoughts may drift to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtls. This isn't what this is about. This is about the second post I ever made on this blog. In summary a turtle is someone who likes to start things but rarely, if ever, sees them through[...]

by Unknown ~ Sunday, April 05, 2009 0 comments