How I am taking the Vikings loss. Pretty well, truth be told. It was the best season of being a Vikings fan I can remember, ever. It was filled with intrigue, excitement, and disappointment. Through it all, Brett Favre made it fun. I hope he comes back for my sake. I hope he doesn’t for [...]
This isn’t really a sports blog but it isn’t often that my team, the Minnesota Vikings, are this deep into the playoffs so… here goes. This weekend the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings will vie for the NFC championship. I believe that this game will be largely decided on the role that the [...]
Coming to you live from the floor of Urbana… Yes, it’s Urbana time. There are about 16,000 people here – just over 10,000 of them students. Intervarsity is doing a great job, running an excellent conference. The theme this year is tilted toward what one would call “social gospel” issues. I know that at least [...]
I don’t go to many movies on the premier night, but I went to see Avatar last week with my sons and a few friends. It was an eye-popping 170 minutes of film. Would I recommend it? Hmmm….. There are plenty of reviews out on Avatar, and I think they mostly agree. James Cameron spent [...]
There are lots of good articles critical of the “Truth or Scare” video below. The best one is Patrick Johnstone’s article (from an upcoming book! I can’t wait to read it) on Strategic Network (click here for it). I have written about this topic before as well (click here for it). Rather than read my [...]
He has risen indeed. Happy Easter from the Esler family!
Barna calls them “revolutionaries.” A friend of mine prefers “Jesus follower.” Your pastor might call them partially apostate. Whatever the label, there is a rising tide of Evangelicals who are pulling out of the institutional structures that have defined what it has meant to be born-again over the past few decades. Do I know this [...]
Michael Spencer is, I am sure, getting lots of traffic to his blog these days over a recent article entitled, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” The article appear on the Christian Science Monitor and got mac-daddy exposure on The Drudgereport. The basic premise of this article is that Evangelicalism, because of its ascendence into a culturally [...]
If you get this SMS – it is a hoax. You can see the next thread for the discussion. It would be interesting to study just how this particular message was, evidently, spread so quickly across the internet. I got it personally, and I know many others who did as well. If anybody has any [...]
