Favorite New Things in 2008

1. The new MacBookPro
2. Tweetdeck
3. iPhone
4. 30 Boxes
5. Cambridge Pitt Minion ESV
6. MaxximoJo’s Coffee Shop
7. Brooks Adrenaline GTS
8. Moleskine City Guides
9. Pandora
10. MobileMe
11. Home Field Advantage in the Playoffs

Favorite Books of 2008

1. Stress of Her Regard (newly restored edition) by Tim Powers
2. Practical and Pious by A.C. Cheyne
3. Truths We Confess by R.C. Sproul
4. Punic Wars and Culture Wars by Ben House
5. A Prodigal God by Tim Keller
6. The King Alfred Saxon Tales Tetrology by Bernard Cornwell
7. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
8. Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien
9. The Reason for God by Tim Keller
10. What’s So Great About the Doctrines of Grace by Richard Phillips
11. The Living Church by John R.W. Stott

Titans in the Pro-Bowl

1. Albert Haynesworth
2. Kevin Mawae
3. Cortland Finnegan
4. Chris Johnson
5. Michael Roos
6. Chris Hope
7. Keith Bulluck, alternate
8. Rob Bironas, alternate
9. Ahmard Hall, alternate
10. Michael Griffin, alternate
11. Kerry Collins, alternate

Books I Try to Read Every Year

1. The Holy Bible (Through-the-Bible-in-a-Year)
2. Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening or Chambers’ My Utmost
3. Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (January)
4. Lectures on Calvinism by Abraham Kuyper (January)
5. Oxford Book of English Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Selections)
6. The Letters by Thomas Chalmers (Selections)
7. The Collected Verse by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Selections)
8. This Singing World by Louis Untermeyer (Selections)
9. Lectures to My Students by C.H. Spurgeon (Summer)
10. The Golden Booklet of the Christian Life by John Calvin (Summer)
11. All Things Considered by G.K. Chesterton (Yuletide)

Favorite Yuletide Traditions

1. Lessons and Carols Service
2. Negotiating the Gift Limit with Karen
3. Ministry Leadership Christmas Party
4. Kugelhupf Coffee Cake
5. Gethsemane Farms Fruitcake
6. Old Homemade Christmas Ornaments
7. Candy Canes at the Christmas Eve Service
8. Feast of the Innocents: Pro-Life Sunday
9. Habitrot, St. Jude, and Resolution Runs
10. A Big, Late, Scrumptious Christmas Morning Breakfast
11. Titans in the Playoffs

An Eleventary Twictionary

1. Twitter: A popular social networking site; a cross between a text-message and a blog; sometimes referred to as a "micro-blog."
2. Tweets: The 140 character posts on Twitter.
3. Follows: Folks who have chosen to follow your posts or folks you've chosen to follow.
4. Retweet: A request to tweet again whatever you just posted.
5. Tweeple: Twitter People; the folks who use Twitter.
6. Twits: Folks who actually understand the technology and culture of Twitter.
7. Tweetup: An online meeting of Twitter friends.
8. Hashtags: A method of tagging content associated with a specific event, topic, or group.
9. Twurl: An online program to shorten and post a url to Twitter.
10. Twitpic: An online program to post a photo to Twitter.
11. Tweetdeck: A management system to sort through categories of follows.

Still Crazy After All These Years (Old Standbys)

1. My Levenger Briefcase (15 years and counting)
2. ESV (7 years and counting)
3. An Office in Downtown Franklin (17 years and counting)
4. The Titans in Nashville (10 years and counting)
5. My Aeron Chair (9 years and counting)
6. Lamy Fountain Pens (15 years and counting)
7. Moleskine Journals (17 years and counting)
8. Macs (20 years and counting)
9. Pappas Brothers Restaurants (27 years and counting)
10. Body Shop for Men (19 years and counting)
11. My Chevy Truck (8 years and counting)

Upcoming Hollywood Sci-Fi Remakes

1. Robocop directed by Darren Aronofsky
2. The Terminator starring Christian Bale as John Connor
3. When Worlds Collide produced by Steven Spielberg
4. Ghostbusters reprised by the original cast, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson
5. Buck Rogers directed by Breck Eisner
6. Creature from the Black Lagoon also directed by Breck Eisner and starring Bill Paxton
7. West World a remake of the late Michael Crichton’s classic
8. Frankenstein Mary Shelley's horror tale retold by director Guillermo Del Toro
9. Forbidden Planet produced by Ben Silver
10. Illustrated Man from director Zack Snyder and screenwriter Alex Tse
11. Dune from actor and director Peter Berg

Bookish Temptation

"Where's human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" --Henry Beecher

An Eleventary Thanksgiving

1. Jacksonville Jags
2. Cincinnati Bengals
3. Houston Texans
4. Minnesota Vikes
5. Baltimore Ravens
6. Kansas City Chiefs
7. Indianapolis Colts
8. Green Bay Packers
9. Chicago Bears
10. Jacksonville Jags
Oops! New York Bretts
11. Detroit Lions

Dan Gylberd on Thanksgiving

"We don't ever take our adversities for granted--only our blessings."

No Eleventary Today

1. Jacksonville Jags
2. Cincinnati Bengals
3. Houston Texans
4. Minnesota Vikes
5. Baltimore Ravens
6. Kansas City Chiefs
7. Indianapolis Colts
8. Green Bay Packers
9. Chicago Bears
10. Jacksonville Jags
Ouch! New York Jets

The John Quincy Adams Doctrine

"Any man who actually wants to be president, probably isn't qualified."

The Ronald Reagan Doctrine

"Government isn't the solution to our problem. Government is the problem."

New Comenius Book

David Vaughan interviewed Benjamin Kuras about his new book, Restoring Comenius.

Current Eleventary Reading

1. Tales of the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Restoring Comenius by Benjamin Kuras
3. What’s So Great about the Doctrines of Grace by Richard Phillips
4. A Christian Worldview ed. by C.N. Willborn
5. The Messiah and the Psalms by Richard Belcher
6. Christ and Culture Revisited by D.A. Carson
7. Seeking a Better Country by D.G. Hart and John Muether
8. Twelve Challenges Churches Face by Mark Dever
9. John Calvin by Williston Walker
10. The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
11. Revolutions in Worldview ed. by Andrew Hoffecker

Prattlers

"What great men do, the less will prattle of." --William Shakespeare

Edmund Burke's Example

"Example is the school of mankind; they'll learn at no other."

Win Ugly

"The Tennessee Titans may win ugly. But, they win." Mike Ditka

Romans 5:20

"Where sin abounded--grace did much more abound!" Praise unto Christ!