Tiglath-pileser (the dog)

My family arrived home at midnight last night after an amazing five days in St. Louis at Urbana 15, a gathering of 16,000 students and leaders who are interested in missions,… — January 3, 2016

My father Richard Lamb is a physicist.  To be precise, a gamma-ray astrophysicist. What he does isn't rocket science, it's more complicated than that. He loved his job… — December 10, 2013

At 5:30 in the morning my alarm went off.  I jumped out of bed, went outside, shoved the pile of newspapers (The Des Moines Register-I grew up in… — May 10, 2012

Tiglath-pileser, the dog, not the ancient Assyrian emperor (745-727 BC), sleeps in our bedroom with us.  Because his collar has dog tags (surprise!), we take off his collar at… — September 30, 2011

Psalm 1 provides both positive and negative motivation for delighting in the law of YHWH.  After describing the carrot (prosperity) that comes to the torah-obsessed person in verse… — June 26, 2011