Hope to fight the good fight.
Author: nsbeal
I am a pastor (Immanuel Baptist Church), husband, father, and lighting rep. So I have lots of time to spare! I'm interested in lots of things, like home remodeling, literature, gardening, and writing.
Justice, Cowardice, and Racism
A Christian response to the violence in our nation.
Be the Little Tractor
Small Ministry matters
The Week I Took Up Smoking
Review of smoking meats on the Pitt Boss 1100.
Arrows in my Financial Quiver
Last month I read a couple of books that I will shortly review, but here is a quick overview of a couple of financial principles I took away. One of these has dominated my thinking about finances since learning of it, mainly because I had assumed I had discovered all the building blocks of finances … Continue reading Arrows in my Financial Quiver
To the Love of My Life on our 10th Wedding Anniversary
Meditations on my 10th wedding anniversary.
What Was Not Lost
A tribute to my friend Charles Rogers.
The Indestructible Community
A little less than 2,000 years ago in Palestine, a new community was born from the mixed clay of Jew and Greek, bond and free, rich and poor. Against all odds, that community exists today in very similar form to what it looked like in Acts 2:42ff. Prematurely, philosophers of the 20th century declared the … Continue reading The Indestructible Community
The Certainty of Faith
Uncertain what to believe?
That Time Peter Jackson Ruined The Hobbit
This post is actually about the nature of fairy tales, so keep reading even if you don't care for my movie critique. Yes, they were fun movies to watch. But since the very first "Tolkien" movie, the Fellowship of the Ring, the series had trended towards more CGI, more deviations from the books, and more … Continue reading That Time Peter Jackson Ruined The Hobbit
Nathan Writes 