pre-thanksgiving fullness

hi friends and fellow bloggers:

the family and i are in maryland now visiting with the wife's family for a few days over thanksgiving. the fullness came from a fine meal at cracker barrel. it's much more enjoyable for lauren now since she doesn't work anymore (i think).
read the article in the current ct on the emerging church. interesting stuff. i'd be curious to have some more dialogue about this phenomenon.
my good friend and our pastor, dave, showed me a book by dave tomlinson called the post-evangelical which fits with brian mclaren and the emergent ilk. dallas willard wrote the foreward to the book and anything he commends i will pay attention to.

anyway, it's getting late. just wanted to get a short post it.
happy thanksgiving!

the near miss

good late evening friends and family:

tonight marks my first overnight weekend at pennshire with keystone. i will be doing an "asleep" every other weekend shift (frid and sat nights 11-7). i should get to sleep 12-6 each of those shifts but be here in the event of an emergency. i'm in a townhome with several individuals with mental illness.

i fell asleep earlier on our couch and barely woke up as lauren, my wife, had set the alarm for me and summoned me from my stupor on the couch. in my haste to get over here, i came very close to hittting a deer ("oh dear" as my almost 3 year old would say). ok, that's about it for now. i'm going to check on the one person who is still awake and get ready for some shuteye.

tomorrow, men's group-the book of numbers. should be interesting though the reading itself is not the most exciting at times.

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a place called vertigo

hello hello:

i cannot get this great new u2 song out of my head. ..the ipod commercial (the first song they've ever used for an ad) is stunning as far as ads go too. i think i do a pretty mean bono impression but my wife may disagree!
speaking of u2 and bono, check out the recent books and culture which has bono on the front with bush and kerry in the background and quite a good article too. (all kudos to tomdartt for the recent gift b&c subscription). see www.rufville.org for more details about this cool dude and his vital ministry at millersville university.

my stint teaching is done for now. my class went well on the psalms, i think. i'll look forward to seeing people's comments about the class and how it could improve.
now the main things i'm involved in are helping lead the men's ministry. we're trekking through the entire bible in about 9 months. i'm using the message which makes the terrain a little more easy. as a co-home group leader with maestro (mussolini) matt monticchio (how's that for alliteration?), i'm studying ecclesiastes and am looking forward to diving in with the group. i found a really cool looking book by robert johnston of fuller seminary. he ponders ecclesiastes vis a vis modern film-looks pretty interesting. of course, for anyone who is interested in this very wise book that still has so much relevance, i commend stafford wright's landmark essay, the interpretation of ecclesiastes found in several anthologies in good theological libraries.

well, i think my break is about done. i may be one of the only ones reading my blog for now but it's giving me good blogging practice. peace out!