Why Passer Ratings Are Meaningless

I cross posted this from my other blog – Adventures in Missing the Point. That blog is mostly just for random thoughts and rants, but I wanted this post to get a wider distribution.

In a recent conversations with another football enthusiast, the topic of the passer rating became a subject of great disgust. [...]

Could this be the future site of Heritage Baptist?

This afternoon, one of our deacons – Greg Jones – and I went to see a piece of property I had enquired about before Christmas. It is just south of the retail district on South Willow Street. It is 5.39 acres of relatively flat, unencumbered land although there are some wetlands.

Around 2002, Thrifty [...]

Good Bye Curse!

My Tampa Bay Buccaneers have seen some hard times. Over the years, they had their fair share of bad luck.

They survived being totally shut out their opening season (0-14, 1976).
They drafted Hall of Famer Steve Young and then traded him because they had drafted Vinny Testaverde, who they also traded away.
Tony Dungy coached the [...]

Messiah Was Born Here! Get Commemorative Wiseman Action Figure!

There has been a lot of talk over the last two days about the words of Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. In an interview with Simon Mayo of BBC Radio 5, Williams answered some questions about the birth of Jesus and the validity of the observance of Christmas. The media has, true to [...]

It Snows in New Hampshire

Some of you may not be aware of this little known fact, but it snows in New Hampshire. Technically, we are still in autumn but someone forgets to tell the weather every year. This year has been particularly impressive thus far. Last week, we had two storms and this morning we awoke [...]

Here’s Sunday’s Sermon since we had a snow emergency

The following videos are this week’s message, since we canceled our worship gathering due to the snow.  You can get the bulletin with the sermon notes here - 12/16/07 HBC Bulletin
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

I know this sounds really redundant, since we’ve emailed this information out - but if you are a member of Heritage, please don’t [...]

iBIBLE

Another blogger posted this, and it contained such incredible truth, I had to post it.

No Perfect Pastors Here

[Mark Driscoll has an] infatuation with the vulgar aspects of contemporary society…the lifestyle he models—especially his easygoing familiarity with all this world’s filthy fads—practically guarantees that [his disciples] will make little progress toward authentic sanctification. (John MacArthur, Pulpit Magazine, December 2006)

That’s what John Macarthur had to say about Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church [...]

Megachurches…so WHAT!?!

I have to be honest with you. All the hype about megachurches and church growth strategies and vision statements and Purpose-Driven™ whatever is really getting thin with me. For awhile there, I was intrigued by churches like Willow Creek Community Church and Saddleback Church; and I have to admit, those churches are pretty [...]

Common Ground

Being raised in an arch-conservative, ultra-fundamentalist tradition, it still boggles my mind that guys like John Piper and Mark Driscoll find common ground and work together in the ministry. On the surface, they are about as different as two leaders can be.

John Piper

Piper is old school. He still wears a tie and a [...]