Good word from Matt Perman: “What’s at Stake with Multitasking?”
In short:
So what happens if you multitask? You will never get into the zone. And if you never get into the zone, you will miss out on the best and most productive experience in work.
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Spring 2009 Zondervan Academic Resource Catalog
CrossWay Milwaukee
Yesterday my family visited CrossWay Community Church in Milwaukee for second time since our church planted it a little over a year ago. If you or people you know live near the high school building where they’re meeting, I’d commend this gospel-centered assembly to you.
The preaching pastor, Jason Dahlman, is a good friend. (The picture below is old; he and his wife now have three children!) Jason and I first met in Dr. Carson’s Advanced Greek Grammar class in spring 2007, and Jason is now finishing his PhD dissertation under Doug Sweeney at TEDS on Puritan preaching. Jason is unusually humble and gifted—a dynamic combination. He’s probably the finest young preacher I’ve ever heard. (Sermons are available here.)
They are still a young, small church (if I remember correctly, their assembly started off around 40 people, and about one year later they are running about 90-120). More information about them is available here, including a 4.5-minute video that they prepared last year.
Overshadowed
Last night Jenni and I attended our fourth or fifth play by Overshadowed Theatrical Productions: “Unshaken Love: The Story of Ruth.”
From left to right: Ruth (Paula Wiggins), Naomi (Reba Hervas), and Orpah (Kady Debelak)
Meatatarian Prooftext
Proverbs 15:17
- NET: Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened ox where there is hatred. - NASB: Better is a dish of vegetables where love is
Than a fattened ox served with hatred. - ESV: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
than a fattened ox and hatred with it. - NIV: Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened calf with hatred. - TNIV: Better a small serving of vegetables with love
than a fattened calf with hatred. - NLT: A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better
than steak with someone you hate.
T4G Live
My soul has feasted on the Together for the Gospel Live CD many times in the last couple of months. It features the rich hymns that over 5,000 of us sang at T4G in April 2008.
This CD is on sale this month for only $6 with free shipping in the continental US. (Sovereign Grace Ministries is also selling other books and CDs at reduced prices this month.)
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A Quibble with John Piper
On December 17, 2008, John Piper warmly recommended Leif Enger’s novel Peace Like a River. Jenni and I read it together over the last month and finished it last night.
Enger is a gifted writer who crafts words like an artist, and his novel has several redeeming qualities. The problem, however, is that the story’s plot is far too thin. It starts well but then fizzles. We kept waiting for it to get better, but it never did. Perhaps this says more about us than it does about Enger—sort of like how the only thing being evaluated at fancy art museums is the people looking at the paintings, not the paintings themselves!
Should you read Peace Like a River? A cheeky side of me wants to answer, “No, don’t waste your life.” :-)