Bright Sunshiny Day
3/04/08 - 3rd Day - After Breakfast. In all my years of writing several millions of words I have never written the word "sunshiny" before and I would have sworn there was an "e" before the "y", but apparently not.
Well, we had a rough night the night before last when a very severe winter front moved through the area. I had the children down in the root cellar at about 2:30 a.m. or so and we ended up with wind gusts up to 60 mph and pea-sized hail. There were several tornado vortexes in the area according to the radar, and it was a tense night. Not too abnormal for this time of year in Texas though. Last night the rest of the cold front blew through and it got down in the 20's for hopefully the last time this year. It is in the 30's right now but it is very sunny and the temps are on the way up for today. Later today I will go see how my garden held up to the storm.
Hey, my wife Danielle has her first blog: A Process Driven Wife Check it out for her side of the story; I look forward to reading it regularly.
I also started a new blog called The Center for Agrarian Homesteading Education. That sounds like a very pompous name, but I was having trouble finding a name that would identify exactly what information could be found there. I started by using it as an archive for the Off-Grid Living for Agrarians series. You will find it there, and I will add other Agrarian series and articles there as well. It will be a great resource for you and any other folks you want to send it to. Please remember to bookmark it and link to it on your own blogs.
We received some amount of rain during the storms, but I cannot tell you how much. It is hard for the rain gauge to catch water that is coming in horizontally. So I will guess that we got about 3/4 of an inch. It was nice though, and we needed it.
As you will read in the Process Driven Wife blog, Danielle, Robert, and Jennifer are up in Smyer taking care of my mother. We hope they will be home on Saturday.
Ok, I have to go to work. I hope to get Part 11 of the Off-Grid series done really soon.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
Well, we had a rough night the night before last when a very severe winter front moved through the area. I had the children down in the root cellar at about 2:30 a.m. or so and we ended up with wind gusts up to 60 mph and pea-sized hail. There were several tornado vortexes in the area according to the radar, and it was a tense night. Not too abnormal for this time of year in Texas though. Last night the rest of the cold front blew through and it got down in the 20's for hopefully the last time this year. It is in the 30's right now but it is very sunny and the temps are on the way up for today. Later today I will go see how my garden held up to the storm.
Hey, my wife Danielle has her first blog: A Process Driven Wife Check it out for her side of the story; I look forward to reading it regularly.
I also started a new blog called The Center for Agrarian Homesteading Education. That sounds like a very pompous name, but I was having trouble finding a name that would identify exactly what information could be found there. I started by using it as an archive for the Off-Grid Living for Agrarians series. You will find it there, and I will add other Agrarian series and articles there as well. It will be a great resource for you and any other folks you want to send it to. Please remember to bookmark it and link to it on your own blogs.
We received some amount of rain during the storms, but I cannot tell you how much. It is hard for the rain gauge to catch water that is coming in horizontally. So I will guess that we got about 3/4 of an inch. It was nice though, and we needed it.
As you will read in the Process Driven Wife blog, Danielle, Robert, and Jennifer are up in Smyer taking care of my mother. We hope they will be home on Saturday.
Ok, I have to go to work. I hope to get Part 11 of the Off-Grid series done really soon.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 3/04/2008 07:07:00 AM
6 Comments:
Michael:
Been a long time so I thought I'd check in.
It sounds like your family is well...though reading your wife's blog she is caring for your mother? I will pray about that if I get more specifics.
I have recently been turned on to a preacher named Mark Driscoll. This guy so completely reminds me of you (or my memory of you) that I thought I'd pass his name along.
Anyway...I owe you a debt of gratitude for 1.) preaching at the prophecy club which lead me to salvation and 2.) turning me on to the doctrines of grace. That was 8 years ago if you can believe that.
peace,
Tony Woodall
Hey Tony, good to hear from you. Yeah, my mother fell down a couple of weeks ago and broke her femur, so we have been pitching in to watch and care for her during her recovery so my dad can travel and work.
I really don't see how I could be more different than Mark Driscoll. He is a charismatic, a worldling, and a syncretist. I suppose if he were an Arminian, then we'd be completely and totally different, but then he is a "4 1/2 point Calvinist", which you know I defined in my book as someone who is inconsistent and illogical. Maybe he is stunningly good looking and that is what reminds you of me?
Peace,
Michael
Had never heard of Driscoll, but after checking him out, other than a very slight resemblance in body and with a beard, and being probably about the same age as you Michael, there is NO resemblance whatsoever, thankfully.
Bill
Michael:
Damn...I didn't even know you could break a femur! That's horrible.
I do miss your "p&v" ("v" stands for vinegar...connect the dots).
Mark Driscoll has similar manerisms to you is what I was saying.
I wouldn't call him a charismatic though I'm sure you redefined that one since last we spoke. 'Worldling' is a relative term and if you're the center of reference than I guess that shoe fits. I don't know what a syncretist is, so I'll give you that one.
His views on limited atonement are questionable. I think he buries himself in semantics. Plus, I think he borrows from 'will of decree' and 'will of command' doctrines and over extends them into the five-points matrix. I think he's too smart for his own good sometimes.
later,
Tony Woodall
Tony,
The term "worldling" is hardly relative. If a green martian landed on earth and called you an "earthling" it would be quite silly to quibble about it. A worldling looks, dresses, acts, identifes, and co-habits with the world. Driscoll's Christianity pushes the big lie that in order to "win people to Christ" you must be "culturally relevant and attractive" which is to say that you win worldlings to Christ by looking and being worldly. It is a perversion of Paul's admonition that he was "all things to all men". I don't mean "worldling" as a slam - it just means what it means. If I see a woman on a street corner dressed like a whore and trying to sell her body, I really don't care if she is doing it in order to win "johns" to Christ. She is a whore. That is not relative; a cop who hates prostitution, a john who loves it, or even a competing whore can conclude that a woman who sells her body on the street is a whore. Any man who preaches to 5000 on Sunday but cries about being hated and persecuted is a joke in my book, and when I see him wearing a "Friends" haircut and a choker, I can safely assume he is a worldling without making myself the measuring stick.
Not attacking your boy bro, just making sure that we identify what it is that is similar between us. Glad you miss my P&V - stop by more often because you liven up the place.
Michael
Michael:
Oh how I smile when I read your responses. It's just a gift that you have.
Bro, the "in not of" and "all things to all people" paradox in Christianity is necessarily relative. You're just not going to look up "worldling" in the Bible and get an answer that ends all debate. If anything, you'll see an appeal to the individual conscience as a guide...and that's as relative as it gets.
Your example of the whore would push the argument into the category of "sexual perversion" not "in not of". And in this sense, you're right. It's not a matter of relativity. But that only happens when one has pushed Christian liberty so far that objective moral guidelines are compromised. And that's where the "if it looks like a duck" approach applies. But again, if Biblical Agrarianism is the believed biblical mandate, then all things falling short of that are worldly. And that was my point. Your calling Driscoll a worlding is relative to how you live out "in not of".
And Driscoll's not "my boy". If I had to pick a boy, it would be John Piper. And that's your fault.
peace,
Tony Woodall
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