Believer, the scornful unbeliever watches you, too:
Andée Seu Peterson @WORLD_mag — "But sometimes we Christians have to own up to our bad press and think about it."
— Mark Roth (@anabaptist) June 29, 2012
Christianity 101
As I Was Told, I Asked
To ask or not to ask. Now that can be a real puzzler sometimes.
Especially when the “target” for the request is God Almighty Himself.
Why should that be such a puzzler? I guess I don’t know.
Whatever the case, Tuesday morning I posted on my devotional blog: Read it all
What’s the Opposite of Gay Pride?
I’d been thinking that the opposite of “gay” pride is “straight” humility.
But I just wondered a bit ago if matching up double opposites would have the same effect as a double negative in English.
Thus the opposite of gay pride might be straight pride or gay humility.
Because straight humility might be doubly opposite of gay pride and thus Read it all
I Hate Failure
“I. Hate. Failure.”
That’s how I planned to start my short devotional talk last Sunday evening before our monthly Moments in Missions.
Someone far closer to the front of the auditorium “captured” the podium before I took even one step into the auditorium! Chalk that one up to befuddled communication. 😆
So my talk will need to wait. But in the interest of trying to encourage you, let me give you the verses I thought to use. Read it all
Yesterday’s One-Liner Lessons
Reminders and tips for living -- your mileage may vary...
If you have stony sections in your heart-garden, plant one verse there that helps you deal with that particular problem.
Start out on a problem by praying rather than by worrying.
God uses His Word to clean our hearts. Read it all
Favorite Veteran
Memorial Day 2012
Connected, Fragmented, Scattered…Alone
Our need of community rages deep in our souls.
Even as our engagement with community turns increasingly artificial and imaginary.
So we unwittingly dumb down our definition of community in order to meet our expectations, desperate, stretching, grasping.
And the raging inferno of our need Read it all