If a tragedy left you utterly destitute, would you rather a friend pray for you or give you $200 and a job?

When doubting, I’m sometimes nervous to ask God to explain what I wonder. I’m afraid he actually will.

So is that doubt?

1. STDs
2. Philosophy
3. Freeloading
4. Incarceration
5. Vagabondage
6. Whiskey binges
7. Illegitimate children
8. Pack-a-day smoking
9. Successful rockstardom
10. Getting run over by a train

What’s your list?

Because of the internet’s democratization, who says something is becoming significantly less important than what is said.

Is this good or bad?

Which theory do you tend toward?

#1. Parents should appear unified for their kids.

#2. Children learn to fight well by seeing it done.

If something is unbiased, shouldn’t both parties in the controversy think so?

If they don’t, claiming evenhandedness, will just show your partiality.

Should an inability to spell… mark a person as being uneducated? Or is the ability to spell a trivial accomplishment after all?

-Ronald Wardhaugh, Proper English, 13

Excepting Piper, I’ve read only four T4G-approved books.

I’m no pastor. Still, I wonder if a list like this pigeonholes pastoral intellect.

I don’t see much constructive value in the word “heresy” anymore.

Pejoration has overtaken its older, more technical definition:

What say ye?

College shouldn’t be considered a take-it-or-leave-it decision. Nowadays, deciding against college is like deciding to not graduate from high school.

Your thoughts?

Some folks disagree with my thoughts on blogging.

I’m curious: what’s the issue?

I’ll happily link here to any post that explains.

When did your kids start sitting through church services?

How much noise/wiggling did you allow?

What helped you keep them quiet?

Our stewardess asked those by the emergency exits for “verbal assent” that they could handle it.

Would writing “yes” have been acceptable?

150 reformed Christian bloggers in one room.

What would you say?

I’ll add your answers (if I agree) to my already-too-long list.

If you criticize and mock something you admit you don’t understand, aren’t you just blaming others for your own ignorance and perplexity?

Should our objective when we’re arguing be to convince others of our position or to discover what’s true, regardless of who “wins”?

I posted 6 reasons why pastors should blog yesterday.

I’d be happy to hear any feedback here—other reasons or maybe disagreements.

Liberman on “correct grammar”:

Many people believe that stipulation of shared linguistic norms is essential to communication…. [T]his idea is transparent nonsense.

Orison: It’s consterant.
Me: “Consterant”?
Orison: That’s when things’re neat.

Have your kids invented any words that are now in your vocabulary?

God used Deborah when Barak wouldn’t step up.

Couldn’t this also (sometimes) be God’s way of matching faint-hearted fellows with gutsy girls?

Should we interpret worship songs according to the Bible passages the songs are based on or according to what the songwriters meant?

Living righteously flows from loving Jesus.

When Christians require righteousness from non-lovers-of-Jesus, the result will be hypocrisy.

Is this hypocrisy worth it?

If good Christian artists tend toward the fringes of my kind of faith, what’s the problem—them or the center they’re avoiding?

Many admirable parents let their little children watch TV and movies every day.

Would anyone be interested in explaining this to me?

Michael Spencer writes “10 Reasons I Don’t Read Your Blog.” Amusing and convicting—especially #10.

What makes you quit reading a blog?

(via Vitamin Z)