Entries Categorized as 'life'

The Hype is Coming!!!

Date January 12, 2009

This week the new Homebrewed Christianity season and website will be revealed. I know all the Homebrewed Christianity Listeners (aka our Deacons) are excited, but sometimes it is hard communicate just how much hype we can bring. Well the undefeated Wake Forest University Basketball team beat the one loss - but for some [...]

Blog-O-Lutions

Date January 3, 2009

I have been thinking a bit about what I should do with the blog in 2009. I had a bunch of ideas but decided that I would pick a few things and try to post on them 20 times during the year. Who knows how this will work out, but in my head [...]

Investing without loosing your soul?

Date January 3, 2009

One of my assignments before PhD classes start up in a couple weeks is to figure out where Alecia and I’s retirement money from church is going to go.  I have been looking around the internet and reading articles on just what choices we have to make and such, but the tenor of most ‘investment’ [...]

2008’s Greatest Hits in My Mind

Date January 1, 2009

Albums
5. Jon Foreman: Limbs And Branches
4. Ryan Adams: Cardinology
3. Black Crowes: Warpaint
2. Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs
1. Counting Crows: Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Theology Books (by subject)
Divine Action
Religion\Science
Christology
General Audience Theology
Historical Jesus
Paul

Homebrewed Heresy

Date December 21, 2008

Chad is offically a heretic.  One of the emergent heresy head hunter blogs have deemed Chad’s invitation for congregations to become “COOL,” aka energy efficient and green, to be a distraction from the gospel.  Hopefully Chad will still be able to sleep at night.  If you want to join the heretical movement and help congregations [...]

Tripp’s Advent Material

Date November 24, 2008

I have been spending the last month looking through a number of Advent books and listening to different music albums trying to find things for my own use. I decided I would share the results because, well maybe some of you would enjoy some good advent reads and such, that isn’t full of Christmas [...]

Elgin and Daddy on the Beach

Date November 22, 2008

Family Update From Alecia

Barack the Block Party and other Elgin Goodies

Date November 6, 2008

It was fun to have new friends over in Cali and to have something to get excited about.  Check out all Elgin has been up to in his 10th month of life.

Elgin’s Presidential Endorsement

Date November 3, 2008

After much contemplation Elgin has decided to endorse Barack Obama for president. He told me that it was the 18 million uninsured children in America and Obama’s plan to change that which pushed him over the edge in his endorsement. Of course he does enjoy prestigious company like Colin Powell, but it was [...]

Back in the Saddle Again!

Date October 21, 2008

So I now have the internet here in my new SoCall home.  Alecia and I’s new home is clean and looking like a house with all the boxes unpacked.  Tonight was the first night things seemed normal so I decided to blog after Alecia went to sleep, but I will save content for later.  Instead [...]