Mike Wittmer

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  • spring break

    My family and I returned last night from a wonderful week with my parents in Florida. I blogged once last week to make it look like I was still around, but actually I was finding shark’s teeth at Blind Pass, floating Chinese lanterns at Siesta Key, and meeting my Mennonite cousins who winter or live…

  • the assembly

    Jim Samra, pastor of Calvary Church and author of The Gift of Church, spoke to my class this week on the church. His main point was that the Greek term for church, ekklesia, which means “assembly” rather than “called out ones,” is deeply rooted in the Old Testament. God cut his covenant with Israel on…

  • iBibles again

    I saw a fellow surfing his cell phone throughout the entire worship service yesterday, so for every good example you have rightly mentioned there are plenty of others who rudely give in to temptation. Perhaps we need to welcome people to use their technology while regularly reminding them about the dangers that come with it.…

  • cars

    Two weeks ago my car died. No, not my 1990 Honda Civic CRX, the hatchback that I bought used 18 years ago this Christmas–that car is the St. Louis Cardinals of cars. It refuses to die. A month ago I was driving home on a Sunday afternoon when I heard a loud wham from the back.…

  • uh-oh

    This column by David Brooks explains why intelligent conversations about morality are increasingly harder to come by. We just might be in trouble.

  • lie to me

    There is a lot of truth in Tom Friedman’s editorial in today’s N.Y. Times. We finally have a governor in Michigan who believes in speaking to us as if we were adults, and of course, his poll numbers are plummeting. Maybe our problem is not so much that politicians lie to us, but that we like…

  • what’s wrong with this picture?

    I was searching for something else just now, and I came across this advertisement for online education. Does anything in this picture bother anyone else, from an educational perspective? Would you want this man to be your pastor? (Before anyone accuses me of being sexist, I said “man” because in the picture it looks like…

  • receipt

    Here is another entry for Our Daily Journey. As always, I appreciate any constructive feedback that might improve it before I submit it. read > 1 Samuel 15:1-35 “Then what is all the bleating of sheep and goats and the lowing of cattle I hear?” Samuel demanded.  I was walking through a museum exhibit on…

  • art that tells the story

    Chris Brewer’s Art That Tells the Story is now available. I mentioned this before, but it’s a coffee table collection of works grouped around the themes of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. It’s something that every Kuyperian should possess, and since we’re all Kuyperians now (thanks to the successful efforts of N. T. Wright and…

  • liberating lordship

    I finally saw The King’s Speech last night (and early this morning, it’s a long movie). I almost never watch movies in a theater, not because of my residual conservative upbringing, but because I can’t see paying $20 when my wife and I can watch the same movie for $1 a few months later. I do…