a hairy situation: completed updo

On our earlier post, “a hairy situation for Abby”, I promised an update that would depict the completed updo.

I think you will agree with me that I am married to a very beautiful woman – which means that I have pretty decent odds of having a gorgeous little daughter.

Let’s just hope she doesn’t get my beard.

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Still to come: the complete look – Beth updone, made up, and wearing her brilliant red baby bump bridesmaid dress.

Brace yourself Mom and Dad, I know how excited you have been for this one.

a hairy situation for little Abby

Currently Beth and I are in Louisville, Kentucky for a wedding.

Normally, since Beth is a bridesmaid, she would go with the girls to get a peticure and an “updo” at the salon.  With the baby coming we are trying to operate on a tight budget, so Beth has spent the morning devoted to her own self-accomplished “updo.”

She looks really pretty – really pretty.

It has not been a fast process by estimation, which got me thinking.

Thinking lead to pulling out the digital camera.

Pulling out the camera lead to this:

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Forthcoming: the completed “updo” and the much heralded red dress

‘do we empathy by donation’ ?

Tropfest is an annual festival co-hosted by Sydney, Australia and New York City that bills itself as “The Worlds Largest Short Film Festival”.

This morning I stumbled across a random blog by a random Bible college student who I don’t know from Adam (tubemantravels blog).

Tubeman introduced me to Tropfest and, thankfully, to its its 2008 winner:

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Question(s) for Comment: If our churches really value the sanctity of human life, why is it that so few Christians (including myself) not push past food pantries, dollar bills in guitar cases, and quick glances to avoid eye contact?

What does it mean for Christians to really love the ‘least of these’ and embrace the life of these hurting, broken, and needy human beings?

Why does this matter? Why to believers in the biblical Gospel have to care about  overlooked peoples?

Is ‘empathy by donation’ really sufficient?

proud of my pastor

I don’t remember how it was that I ended up hearing about it, but I discovered that Chuck Lawless over at Southern Seminary wrote an article about using Twitter.

This surprised me and piqued my curiosity.

So I went looking for the article and, by accident, stumbled onto something that left me really baffled and incredibly proud.

I accidently clicked on the wrong page of the pdf file that I was perusing and saw the name “Charlie Davis” at the end of a block quote.

Pastor Charlie? Charlie Davis? Chuck Diesel? In the SBTS newspaper?

No way!

So I zoomed in closer to disprove what my eyes were telling me (afterall, I was wearing my new pair of glasses) and, lo and behold, here’s what I saw:

I couldn’t believe it!  Don’t get me wrong, those were Charlie Davis’ words, no doubt about it, but why were they in Southern Seminary’s biweekly newspaper?

I zoomed a little closer, scrolled up a little bit, and there I discovered that my pastor for three years at Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky was going to be heading up efforts to share the gospel on the streets of my beloved city during this summer’s Southern Baptist Convention.

Charlie is one of the best men that I have ever known.

He loves the church that he has pastored for over 16 years.  He delights to serve his people.  He studies the Scriptures to preach to his people.  He absolutely loves Jesus Christ and making him known.

Charlie Davis is the kind of man who I want telling people about Jesus when the rest of the SBC guys come into town.

To be bluntly honest, that is exactly why I would never expect to see a man like Charlie actually be asked to serve in this kind of capacity in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Maybe that means I am cynical.  Maybe that means that I am a “bad baptist.”  Maybe that means that there are good things happening in the SBC that I am not privy to.  Maybe that means things are changing for the better.  Maybe that means that I have misread the Convention and need to take another look for evidences of grace.

Whatever it means, I know this – Charlie Davis is a good and godly man and I am proud to have called him pastor and proud that he will be fervent in making Christ known to the people of Louisville, Kentucky.

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If you are interested in joining Charlie in telling the Good News on the streets of Louisville, leave a comment and I will put you in touch.

If you live in Louisville and are looking for a God-graced church, go visit Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church.

If you are interested to hear more from Charlie, click on the image below to read the full article from the December 1, 2008 edition of SBTS’ newspaper, The Towers: