Late-night thoughts

Alright—late at night. Gotta watch the baby. Nothing else to do but blog. Yes, that is pretty much the only time I’m going to blog anymore since it’s apparent that no one besides you two (Aaron and Joel) will ever read it! But I’m not bitter. I saw all that Glenn Beck whining over Huckabee today. Wow, what does he want? Do Mormons actually need an Evangelical candidate to renounce their differences with Mormonism? Should Romney be asked to renounce all LDS differences with Evangelicals? Naturally, the flaming Commie media will never see the double standard.

I’ve been re-listening to the Missional stuff again. Both of Driscoll’s messages from Vancouver, and then three by Ed Marcelle. He was one of my four assessors and pastor of Terra Nova in Troy, NY. Good stuff. I can’t get away from the stuff. I spend months on end turned off from it because of some in the movement downplaying Reformed Theology, but then just the bare fact of the church “being on mission.” If we just put it that way, then it’s convicting and makes you want to start preaching the mission again.

I’m half-way through Piper’s book The Future of Justification. No real surprises. I just hope all the young pastors out there who think they can dig Piper and flirt with all of Wright’s neat little perspectives of the kingdom and so forth can be jolted back into the real world by a writing like this. I’m also trying to start reading another book that intrigued me enough to buy a month or two back (but which I haven’t cracked open yet)—The Jesus-Driven Ministry by Ajith Fernando. It’s endorsed by Piper and Ravi Zacharias so it’s gotta be good. I’ll blog a review when I get done with it.