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FINALLY finished N. T. Wright’s magisterial The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3), and while it took significant effort trek through all 750 pages of dense analysis, it was well worth the time and mental energy to make a thorough historical investigation into what the earliest Christians really believed about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Made it to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back with my youngest brother, Mark!

Stewart Ruch III on Best Practices for Holy Week Preaching, and on preaching Easter Morning year after year.

…I’ve grown in this as a preacher—that I have learned how to renounce the expectation that I will preach a great sermon on Easter Day. I’ve learned to refuse to live by that. I do want to preach a great sermon on Easter Day. But if I go out with the result of preaching a great sermon on Easter Day then I’ve already lost the battle of the Easter Day sermon. So I really try to refuse to try and meet the expectation, usually my own and some others, frankly, that I preach a phenomenal sermon on Easter Day. I refuse that. I try to compartmentalize that and put that away, and I try, instead, to work really hard at asking: What’s the word for this year, Lord, from your Holy Scriptures? That’s what I’m going to preach.

The whole article is full of great pastoral wisdom.

Recently found carrd.co–essentially a one-page website builder (more on the philosophy of the platform) made by a really good designer. It is incredibly easy to use, even normal people can do it (although using a custom domain is–as always–a bit of a technical process) Pricing is very reasonable as well.

Just switched our church website over to it from WordPress. Now, you won’t be creating some kind of spawling personal blog (like this site) or a massive online magazine with this–it’s for brochure sites, landing pages, small business sites, and so on.

And for that it is a Godsend. For real.

Once you start really pealing back the layers on the Old Testament, you realize it’s grace all the way down. That’s just how God works.

Why You Should Enable Privacy-Enhanced Mode on Your Embedded YouTube Videos

I’m starting to do this. I think might make sense as a common courtesy in today’s world.

Laura Sydell at NPR: Too Much Video Streaming To Choose From? It’s Only Going To Get Worse

Back to square one when it comes to saving costs on TV.

I’m headed to hike the Grand Canyon soon, so I wanted to try some new camp coffee that might be better than the instant stuff I brought on my last backpacking trip. This option from Kuju Coffee takes more space, but is infinitely more delicious.

Also, the product I linked to has individually wrapped portions, which is different than the ziplock package I picked up at REI.

Inspired by @simonwoods reflection on internet comments:

The question before our digitally-saturated culture is:

How can we intentionally design an internet-based medium that can promote a thoughtful text-based conversation?

That’s a tough nut to crack, and I’m not sure anyone has totally figured it out yet, but Micro.blog seems to be aware of things that clearly do not tend to facilitate civility and true conversation: unlimited hashtags, the “like” or “heart” button, etc.

It really seems that keeping our communities smaller helps too…and the lack of follower counts here on Micro.blog really de-incentivizes growing “connections” for all the the wrong reasons.

I love so much about how @manton and @jean are building what could become the most sane and human space on the Internet.

A Darkmode version of the Micro.blog timeline would be awesome.