http://erika.haub.net Erika Carney Haub's musings on life and God from South Central, L.A. Mon, 12 May 2008 03:52:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Singing Happy Mother's Day to Grammy, Grammaline and Lauren (who is visiting her family in Hookem, Texas) over the phone. Preaching at Church of the Redeemer. Letting the kids eat way too many sweets at the church brunch. Taking a long nap with Mercy after church (well, I slept at least!) Crunchy-lunch-dinner at California ... http://erika.haub.net/mothers-day-highlights/05/ Faith is not a reasonable act which fits into the normal scheme of life and perception. The promise of the gospel is not a conventional piece of wisdom that is easily accommodated to everything else. Embrace of this gospel requires shattering and discontinuity. From Genesis, by Walter Brueggemann http://erika.haub.net/quotation-of-the-week-72/05/ John, an old friend of mine in love with the Old Testament, is often heard saying of the Psalms: "God is glorified even in the grammar." What exactly is he saying? Grammar, according to Merriam Webster, is "the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and ... http://erika.haub.net/sundays-grammar/05/ I saw my brother last weekend, and he told me that thirty-two people had been shot in a single weekend in Chicago. Due to the dramatic number of shootings in such a short amount of time, the shootings received significant media attention. The reality is, had only a handful occurred, ... http://erika.haub.net/too-few/05/ "He sings so.....so.....so.....singing!" From Aaron, near speechless, while catching a few moments of American Idol tonight. http://erika.haub.net/another-david-cook-fan-is-born/05/ I spent Sunday's worship service helping out in the nursery. At one point, we headed outside to let the kids play on the playground and I stayed in the covered area with Elijah. It was an unusual worship service that focused on prayer, and a few youth had opted to ... http://erika.haub.net/where-we-dwell/05/ This past week, Doug wrote a guest post here that received extensive comments resulting in a quality dialogue about the identity of the church. I thought I would post a few excerpts here: I think the concept of outreach versus inreach itself strikes a dissonant chord in me. When I read ... http://erika.haub.net/a-good-conversation/05/ "The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." In Matthew's context, it is clear that Jesus is warning about the division that can come in a home when ... http://erika.haub.net/quotation-of-the-week-71/05/ First, thank you, Erika, my lovely bride, for providing a platform for these comments. As part of a class I am taking at Fuller, I must present several public writings that come from my interaction with the course materials. These will be short, incomplete, and perhaps even unsatisfactory ‘snapshots’ of ... http://erika.haub.net/to-what-end/05/ It was ten o'clock before I finally left to do our family's grocery shopping last night. In general, we try to avoid evening trips to Ralph's. There have been enough incidents there at night that it is better to just not take the risk. But we needed to shop and ... http://erika.haub.net/afraid/05/