December 2009
0 posts
I'm Moving. Again. Kinda.
I am starting anew. Due to some unavoidable blog maneuvering all I have to stop updating this particular blog. The domain (www.adrianmartinez.tumblr.com), however, will stay the same. For those of you who follow me on Tumblr, this means you need to find me again and and click FOLLOW. Anyone who gets my RSS feed may need to update it after the move. Everything will look and operate the same. And...
November 2009
22 posts
1 tag
WatchMatt Butcher and Jill Andrews - Giving My Sadness a Name
A beautiful duet. Makes me want to record an album in a train car. Jill could sing divorce papers and make them sound beautiful.
Did Zach Braff Kill American Music? →
- Idea of the Day Blog
October 2009
15 posts
“So, as Christians, our aim is not to convince people of some god in general, but...”
– Pastor Mark Driscoll (from his first column for the Washington Post)
Sometimes/Often the Bible is Terrifying
I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed…
- Ezekiel 35:11
Christ and the World / Cultural Relevance
This morning at church a large group of us were having a conversation about cultural relevance, what it means to hold to Christ while living in and experiencing the world around us. I realized how much I loved the conversation and how long it had been since I had been a part of it. I’m hoping to devote some time and space to the idea here on this blog. Maybe this could even be a place for...
Sandra McCracken - Lo the Storms of Life are...
The Deadly (Aesthetic) Sin of Sentimentality
Between Two Worlds
Gene Veith to Christians who want to make good films: … [T]ake some lessons from the past. I am currently teaching a course entitled “Major Christian Authors,” covering such authors as Dante, Spenser, Herbert, Bunyan, Hopkins, Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Graham Greene, Flannery O’Connor. NONE of them wrote about people’s personal problems. There...
September 2009
19 posts
Give to the One Who Begs From You
Desiring God’s Jon Bloom writes about Matthew 5:42, “Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.”
There is something about such over-the-top, radically generous love that is so different from the way the world loves that it reflects the Father’s love for sinners. It’s why Jesus calls us also to costly love. It is both an...
Songs of Loudest Praise
Happy Birthday Robert Robinson! Thank you for “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.”
O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be! Let thy grace Lord, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee.
FREEDOM for 15 Trafficking Victims!
IJM Institute:
Friends, thank you for joining us in prayer over these past two weeks as one of our teams in South Asia labored under significant pressures and obstacles to bring a long-term operation to fruition. Today, the South Asia team that you have been praying for brought freedom to 15 trafficking victims held at a particularly brutal brothel. The operation required excellent coordination...
I Love My Job
A email I just received from a parent:
I just want to let you know how happy we are at the progress [Student] is making in your class. We work with him at home every night & we can see that for the first time he is really “getting it” Thank you so much for all that you do!! Sincerely, [Parent]
It’s all worth it.
Abortion and Animal Cruelty
John Piper on the Desiring God Blog:
In the “Minnesota Cruelty to Animals Statutes … Police Regulations,” Statute 343.21subdivision 1 says, “No person shall … unjustifiably injure, maim, mutilate or kill any animal.”
Subdivision 7 says, “No person shall willfully instigate or in any way further any act of cruelty to any animal.”
The penalty: “A person who fails to comply with any...
The Dreaded Cafeteria Standalone →
#667 in a list of 1000 Awesome Things.
“I think sometimes we mistake movement for progress.”
– Derek Imai
