Ken Martin’s Blog

Here’s a fun spoof of the “I’m a Mac. I’m a PC.” ads. Fun. :) Update: Oh good heavens… I said “fun” twice in the span of less than a dozen words. I hang my head in shame. Look, it was late.

Anna talks non-stop during the whole drive to her ballet class. This evening she was cheerfully chattering… “…and I think that it should be a law that you have to read the whole Bible before you start a church. That way there wouldn’t be any Catholics or Lutherans. Only Baptists.” “No, honey, they’ve read the whole Bible. [...]

More proof I was born in the wrong era; a nice message from my favorite old time radio drama. Click here to listen. In case I don’t get to posting this week, have a happy Thanksgiving. :) Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!(II Cor. 9:15)

It was last Saturday afternoon for me. This Rotten Little Girl decided she was going to use the street in front of my house for her own Jerry Springer set and beat up a smaller girl. I got in between them before it got anywhere and tried to send them on their separate ways. But [...]

The English Standard Version is a fairly new English translation of the Bible which, as I understand it, tries to be as literal to the text as possible while trying to avoid some of the sometimes wooden phrasing found in very literal translations like the New American Standard. I tend to like this side of [...]

“It’s a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.”

When in Sioux Falls last week (which I’ll be posting about later), I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Thompson of the North American Baptist Seminary. We had a very nice conversation over a very nice mocha. One of the things we talked about was a document that he co-authored callled “Re-Envisioning Baptist [...]

In the car I heard a commercial for a Bible with study notes - like a Life Application Bible or something. During the commercial they said something like “over 10,000 notes make God’s Word relevant!” Oh, puh-leeze. Let me thank the note writers on God’s behalf for going that extra mile and filling in the gaps, [...]

My friends at The MacLaurin Institute are helping to bring the “Christianity in a Consumer Culture” conference to the U of M campus this weekend. I might try to take in some little bit of it, though Kenny got strep (again), so that will mix up the weekend a bit. Looks like good stuff, though. [...]

After The Lord’s Supper - Part 1, I spent some time wandering the internet in search of how folks have come to their opinions on whether wine should be used in the Lord’s Supper. I found a number of things which I’d like to follow up on and add to what I’ve started here. “It really [...]