Archive for category: Personal

Thanks for all the prayers, little January Pinch began her journey on earth this morning around 6am or so. I’m sure Summer will provide details when she’s feeling up to it! We are going to meet our new little granddaughter. James

I began traveling to South Africa in 2013.  The opportunities of witness, ministry, and teaching, there in the heart of the land of Islamic Dawah have been incredible, and we can only hope the Lord will continue blessing our work in that land.  But as you know, it is costly to get there, and to travel about, and we look

So I charged up the ol’ iPod and headed up to Prescott Valley this morning to do one of the greatest rides in Arizona.  Since I was going solo I took the time to stop a few times and snap some pictures, such as this one, looking down from Jerome toward Clarkdale and Cottonwood in the Verde River Valley.  The

Please keep Dr. White and the brothers from Trinity Bible Church in prayer tonight as they take a treacherous drive back to Fredericksburg from Charlotte tonight. The backstory: This afternoon, about an hour before Dr. White was to land in Charlotte I was alerted to the wave of flight cancellations, his flight into Richmond being one of them. After making

Just had to stop a couple of times today to snap a few pictures as I rode once again in South Mountain Park.  After a pitch dark ascent long before sunrise, on my second run up Dobbins I saw this, and had to stop long enough to record it.  Just glorious sunrises here in the Sonoran Desert. And speaking of

This is about 30 miles north of Phoenix this morning about quarter to six. I already had nearly 40 miles in (total of 70 for the ride) and was really enjoying the downhill with the tailwind (after the long slog uphill against the wind) but I just had to lose a bit on the final average speed to stop and

Haven’t posted a lot of pictures from my early morning rides recently, but as I came around the bend on the climb up to the Dobbins Lookout in South Mountain Park this morning I had to stop and take this shot. Always thankful for the health to be out there (206 miles with over 10,000 ft. of ascent this week),

I was not informed about this, but I am happy to see especially What’s With the Mutant in the Microscope? available again! At least in electronic form anyway!

1) Load your iPod with the third time you’ve listened to your opponent’s book…all the way through the endnotes and publisher’s materials—and third time you’ve listened to two of his public presentations. 2) Load a bunch of Rob Gagnon lectures, which you listened to a few years ago, but need to refresh. 3) Load the Indiana University lecture Doug Wilson

So, I have taken up rowing again, something I enjoyed doing back about five years ago. In 2007 I completed the Concept2 Holiday Rowing Challenge, rowing more than 200,000m (i.e., 200 km, approximately 122 miles) between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. So I am committed to doing that again this year. But—I am a cyclist who rows (not a rower who

Started off with an analysis of a portion of the Dan Savage “Dinner Table Debate,” illustrating how the redefinition of marriage means the destruction of marriage. Talked a bit about the most absurd ruling by a “federal judge” ever and then talked briefly about this example of how much of the most popular Islamic dawa material on the Internet is

Well, it was glorious right up until it soaked me about ten minutes after I took these, but hey, that’s the risk you take!

I am at my office on this Saturday afternoon, typing as fast as my fingers will go, working hard to beat my deadline in finishing this book before I head to the UK. The folks in channel are probably tired of reading my text dumps as I keep them appraised of what I’m working on. But in any case, I

Pictures (esp. on cheapie little cell phones) just cannot begin to do justice to the sunrise this morning. I took this on my second climb up “Tower Road” on South Mountain (for those familiar with the park). It took a minute or two to get the phone turned on, and the sun is actually just peeking over the horizon in

I was contacted yesterday about a problem with my upcoming trip to Dallas for a debate with James Anderson, a very kindly and, in my few interactions with him, reasonable and thoughtful Oneness advocate. We had arranged the debate because I was going to be speaking at the Psalm 119 Conference with Todd Friel and Phil Johnson and others. Well,

The heavens declare the glory of God… Taken just north of the Carefree Highway on New River Road at 5:27am this morning on a 72.11 mile ride that took 3:49:11. Man could I feel the dew point at 66! Seven more weeks to endure!

Last year I ventured out while here in Colorado and did something I never expected to be able to do. I overcame a life-long, deep-seated fear of heights in climbing the famed Loveland Pass. When I got there in my car, I was so nervous driving up the north side of the pass that I could not stay in the

Last week marked the end of my 2011/2012 riding year. For those not interested in cycling and related topics, please skip to the next entry. For those wondering why a riding year would end June 13th, well, because I got back on the bike, after a 7 year hiatus, on June 14th, 2005. In any case, my riding year ended,

As you near the beginning of your sixth decade of life on this planet, if you are awake, if you are thinking, if you are looking beyond the mundane facts of existence, you start thinking about not only what you are going to leave behind as a testimony to the grace of Christ given to you in this life, but

I spoke from 9am to 3pm here in Honolulu today, and then managed to sneak in a very quick ride up the mountain shown here (as seen from my hotel room about three miles away). I really had no idea what I was in for on this ride. I had gotten just over 6000 ft. of climbing in in Hilo,

I spoke from 9am to 3pm here in Honolulu today, and then managed to sneak in a very quick ride up the mountain shown here (as seen from my hotel room about three miles away). I really had no idea what I was in for on this ride. I had gotten just over 6000 ft. of climbing in in Hilo,