Kingdom Paradox
Dave Currie was my ministerial hero when I was a kid, and he first introduced me to the idea of ‘Kingdom Paradox’ when I was 18. Yesterday I found Dave’s…
Jesus Injection
…found this old unused prototype artwork last night on my home computer. wish we would’ve used it.
Pastor’s Day Off: steampunk guns
sometimes, on my days off, i build things like steampunk guns i made these from nerf guns, old binoculars, and ebay auto parts with clockworks for decoration
Kingdom Paradox
God’s kingdom works backwards. His reasoning and promises and ambitions for us are often counterintuitive. It’s one of the most difficult truths to explain to people, yet also one of…
Heads & Tales: Resources
If you’re at all interested in learning more about Herod the Great, here are the best resources I uncovered during the fall of 2012. Josephus: the Antiquities of the Jews…
Heads & Tales: day 23
Herod originally intended to have his son, Herod Antipas, succeed him as King of the Jews but Caesar Augustus vetoed the appointment. Augustus suggested Herod appoint his other son, Archeleus,…
Heads & Tales: day 22
Herod died shortly after the arrival of the Magi, and within seventy years of his death everything he had schemed, labored, and shiestered to acquire was gone. The Hasmonean monarchy…
Heads & Tales: day 21
Herod died shortly after the Holy Family fled to Egypt. We’re not sure precisely how long after, just that his death coincided with a collision of stars in the sky….
Heads & Tales: day 20
Today I’m writing about paranoia. By paranoia I don’t mean the clinical diagnoses, but common anxiety experienced to an uncommon degree. I mean excessive worry. I mean the fantasies that…
Heads & Tales: day 19
The quietest line in Matthew’s nativity claims the Magi went home ‘by another route.’ They had been warned in a dream that Herod was going to kill them. They had…
Heads & Tales: day 17
I’m bad at math, but sometimes still try. Recently I asked my friend Amy to help me with a little math problem, to try and determine the approximate worth of…
Heads & Tales: day 16
There are two kinds of leaders: those who give strength to others, and those who keep strength for themselves. Because power is strength. At the extremes are tyrants and stewards….