Archive for category: Personal

As a kid I loved to build and fly model rockets…and still do. Hardly ever get a chance to do it anymore, and many years go by without a single launch, but I went out today to try out a gift given to me, an Estes Oracle video rocket. I may link to some video it took when I get

I just looked over the list of pre-pubs at Solid Ground and four of them leapt off the page at me and said, “Buy me!” No, I’m not taking a collection. These are the ones that hit me:     PAUL THE PREACHER: A Popular and Practical Exposition of His Discourses and Speeches as Recorded in the Acts of the Apostles

Just a quick note from Mill Valley and the campus of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. Taught all day today, will do so again tomorrow. Will probably keep me from doing much here on the blog. It is like 62 degrees here right now. It will be 112/113/112 the first three days I get home. What is wrong with this

Added a layer, tweaked things, and poof something completely different pops out. Once again, here’s the full size version.

Hobster, one of our channel regulars and one of our ops, complained that his desktop wallpaper, consisting of some of my fractals, was getting old. So, I thought I’d help him out. And you thought it was just a phase…! Here is the full size version.

Just a quick note for those in the NJ area: I guess I didn’t have anything on the calendar page about my trip down to Trinity Fellowship Church in Tom’s River (I need a secretary!). Well, here’s the info. I speak tomorrow night and Sunday morning. 6:00 – 7:15: Introductions and 1st lecture————-The Da Vinci Code 7:15 – 7:45: Break

Let me just say on behalf of Rich and I that we definitely have the best blog audience in the blogosphere, bar none. I made known a need, and for all intents and purposes, that need has now been met through the prayers and support of God’s people, and I am very thankful. Yes, many would say I’m demonstrating my

As much as I enjoy keeping the blog hopping, two things will slow things down this week: 1) I head back out on the road Friday (see the calendar page), and 2) the weakness of the flesh has struck again and once more I fight the battle of the sinus/upper respiratory infection. I need to get this licked before getting

This is honestly the first time I have had an opportunity to sit down and record some thoughts regarding my current time in Italy. My wife Kelli was with me till yesterday morning, and now I am back in Mantova, having taken the EuroStar train from Rome to Modena yesterday afternoon. Here’s proof I really survived Rome. We visited the

Do not panic! I am really in Rome, Italy. In fact, today I “crossed the Tiber.” That is, I and my wife walked across the Milvian Bridge. The Tiber is…green. Then we visited the Vatican, took the obligatory pictures of the obligatory objects, and then went to visit the Coliseum. Last week we visited Venice as well (the world’s largest

I am off to speak at two conferences on consecutive weekends in Milan, Italy on the subject of Election and Evangelism. I would covet the prayers of God’s people for safe travel and for His blessing upon the ministry. As some of you may recall, I lost the battle with a pretty nasty upper respiratory infection when I flew to

Yesterday I posted a small picture of my great grandparents from 1889. Here is one of them from years later. Why post this? Well, my father graduated from Moody Bible Institute in the mid 1950s. He met my mom while a student there. When I first began to show an interest in studying the Bible, he bought me two reference

This is the earliest picture I have been able to find of my ancestors. This is Robert and Jessie Jeannette White in September of 1889 in Broken Bow, Nebraska. The tiny baby, barely visible in Jessie’s arms, 2 months old, is my grand-father. Robert and Jessie had married in Newton, Scotland, December 11, 1884. So far, on my father’s side,

We’ll call him Machaira, since that is his IRC nick. Bright…no, brilliant young man from the Philippines. I didn’t have any idea that he was an anime artist, and in fact, that he does this on his computer. I can’t draw a decent stick figure on a piece of paper, let alone on a computer. This is simply amazing. Well,

I really wanted to put together an article on 1 Peter 2:8, or work on the materials I’ve downloaded from a few blogs, or something, but I am writing an article for the Reformed Baptist Theological Review, and I feel like I’m typing in wet cement. It is titled, currently, anyway, “Textual Criticism and the Ministry of Preaching,” and since

Now, you have to look real, real close, but see how excited I look. I’m pointing at Nessie! She’s right there! Some of you have been… somewhat dubious, I’m afraid, but all you have to do is look (with a little imagination!). Pastor Roger Brazier snapped this one at Loch Ness. Pastor Jack Seaton (he wrote the booklet for Banner

I come from a long line of ministers, going directly back to multiple great-grandparents in Scotland (yes, of course they were Presbyterians). So my visit to Scotland got me thinking, especially when we stopped in a shop near Loch Ness and I wanted to pick up a Scottish tartan tie. The helpful lady informed me that my family name appears

I had lunch with one of our channel regulars today. He’s a student at Grand Canyon University, my alma mater. He was looking through a book sale at the library, and found a 1985 yearbook, and looked me up. Bought it for me for 60 cents. I couldn’t really afford the yearbook when I graduated from GCU, so, I got

When you shrink the full size images down, they tend to get dark, so I lightened this one. Feel free to brighten these images once you download them from my blog page, if you wish. Or even darken them. Whatever. Just enjoy them. Also, I just today spied an XML link on my Webshots gallery page, so you might want

This is my current desktop background. I was playing with an old fractal I had made a few years ago. In the parameters file I had created three layers, and the colors/effects were created by the interaction of those layers. Well, I was trying to get a particular outcome, so I made one layer completely solid so I could work

I wish I could get a tie with the background of this fractal brightly printed on it. 🙂

Blogs are supposed to be sorta personal, and I do enjoy sharing some elements of my life here (though I also recognize the inherent danger of doing so in a public format when you have many folks who will twist your every word listening carefully). So the following personal note I hope will be taken in the proper context. This

I know, I had been doing real well with my fractals back in July and August, but then I ran out of time again. Well, I recently upgraded my Seractal screen saver program, and the new version creates, randomly, some very nice fractals. This one showed up this evening on my laptop (notice the odd screen resolution), and so I

My wonderful, patient, and MUCH younger wife, informed me a few weeks ago that we would be celebrating my birthday a day early. I knew that meant that something was afoot, but I simply haven’t had the time to devote to try to figure out what she was up to. I just knew that as soon as the Dividing Line

M500 owners are a strange lot. One of our favorite things to do is to compare the S&W 50 Mag cartridge to…well, anything, actually. Here’s why. On the left in the picture is the tried and true .22 LR (yes, first real round I ever fired, too). Next to it the ever popular 9mm, veteran of many a police side-arm.

I know I risk offending (without cause) the far left here, but yours truly is a Life Member of the NRA, believes the 2nd Amendment is perfectly in line with God’s command for men to protect their wives and children from those who would prey upon them, and enjoys that (very, very rare) opportunity to get out of the city

I showed this to some folks in channel and they got a hoot out of it (click the image to see it full size). This is from Spring of 1981, the Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald at Independence High School. I’m the prosecutor there in the suit. Yup, real hair, 140 lbs., massive glasses. And check out how even the

But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion is wearying to the body. (Ecc. 12:12) (Yes, I’ve received my author’s copies of Scripture Alone and we are just waiting on the main shipment).

Yes, I am officially retiring…from tennis. There was a day, more than two decades ago, when I could give anyone a run on the court. But I played Mike O’Fallon yesterday morning, and it was terribly frustrating to know what you should do but simply lack the ability to do so. But then the true idiocy exploded when I played