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Hope - A New Year’s MessageJanuary 4

http://www.gracecentral.org/mediafiles/hope-1-peter-113-16.mp3

There it is: my first sermon, preached tonight.

Go easy.

Is Barack “The Dream”?November 10 2008

I was sitting in my car, waiting to pick Zoë up from school, when a bumper sticker on the car in front of me caught my eye.  On it was a picture of a reverent-looking Martin Luther King, Jr, and above him it said “I HAVE A DREAM”.  Next to that picture was a similarly posed picture of President-elect Barack Obama.  Above him, it said “I AM THAT DREAM”.  Immediately, I wondered “really?!”

Now, I don’t have Dr. King’s speech committed to memory or anything like that, but I’d say his “dream” is best summarized in this famous sentence . . .

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Keeping in mind that no bumper sticker and no pithy turn of phrase can fully capture a sound argument, I have to wonder . . . as we now sit on the precipice of seeing our great nation’s first black president inaugurated, is it time to be satisfied (as Americans, and especially as African-Americans)?  Is Barack Obama the very Incarnation of “The Dream”?  I’m gonna say “no”, and if we thi

Resolved.November 7 2008

Resolved: with God’s help, to lose not another moment of this life to vanity, but to work, study, pray, teach, play, and even rest with all vigor, to the glory of God.*

I’m 30 today.

* (No, this is not one of Edwards’ Resolutions, but it’s partially inspired by them.)

So, I got this new t-shirt . . .November 3 2008

. . . but I probably shouldn’t wear it to the polls tomorrow.

Zoë’s first goal today (of six)October 18 2008

Zoe’s first goal today (of six) from Rae Whitlock on Vimeo.

I started the recording a little too late, trust me, she was the one who kicked it in. She’s got 15 goals for the season