Monday Discussion Spoiler alert: Read no further if you have not seen last night’s episode. I Repeat: Spoiler alert: Read no further if you have not seen last night’s episode. Last night was the season ending episode of the wildly successful BBC production Downton Abbey. The acting is superb, for the most part, the writing … More Why Downton Abbey is Can and Can’t Miss TV at the Same Time
Sunday afternoon Musings This is a Francis Chan video that fit perfectly with my message this morning. One of the men of the church asked me if I would post the video on my BLOG so here it is. Be blessed and live a life full-throttle, open-armed, burned-bridges adventure with the Risen Savior. He is worthy. … More A Full-throttle, Open-armed, Burned-bridges Adventure with Christ
Weekend Links Enjoy these, especially the last one in the list. Better Engagement with Culture Ending Abortion in North Dakota (Looking to the day when abortion has ended everywhere. Fighting the Battle for Personhood.) A Protestant Evangelical View on the Ministry and Resignation of the Pope (Russel Moore) Obama’s Promise to Spend without Adding a … More FEMA Discrimination agst Churches; Downton Abbey Evaluations; Bill Moyers; John Piper; Russell Moore; Ending Abortion
Friday is for Heart Songs My son is more than an aspiring poet; he is a published, top 100 on Amazon.com list of books on poetry (four times) poet. He’s good. I am biased, but that doesn’t mean I’m not right. I love this particular poem so much that I recorded it at the end … More “The Church is a Whore; But She’s My Mother” (often attributed to Augustine)
Friday is for Heart Songs Acts 8:4-8 (ESV) 4 Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. 6 And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip when they heard him and saw the … More Domesticated Puppy Dog Faith
Monday Discussion Missional leaders lead God’s people on the mission of God, to the world of God, for the glory of God. You can call yourself a missional leader. You can read all the right books on missional leadership. You can sling all the right names around from the missional community. But unless you are leading … More Missional Leaders and Phonies
Sunday Afternoon Musings What do you do when the mere reading of the Scripture reduces you to tears? What do you do when your heart is longing for some . . . something your lips can’t describe and our mind can’t explain but your spirit knows . . . something that is needed, something it … More Tippy Toe Longing for the Wonder of God
Weekend Links Be informed. Enjoy. Act on what you learn. Biblical Engagement with Culture, Politics and Neighbors The Banality of Abortion Arguments (Chilling, absolutely chilling, and evil. Video included. Please watch and read this link. Abortion must end.) Our Assassin-in-Chief and the Silence of the Media (Provocative post.) The Obama Kill-List (Be a Liberal, Be … More Mark Dever on Church Polity; Obama Kill List; Dr. Ben Carson; Lesbian Conversion; Andree Seu Peterson;
Friday is for Heart Songs … “‘Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.’ But you say, ‘How shall we return?’” Malachi 3:7 (ESV) Going to spend my Sabbath (which happens to be on Friday) thinking and praying about what “returning” to God looks like … in … More Using the Sabbath Well
Updated and reposted 4/17/13 The following is from Kairos Journal. Two of the examples are from Australia and England but don’t let that fool you. These issues are on the doorstep of our own politically correct culture. Just heard today that New Zealand became the thirteenth country to legalize same-sex marriage. My friend Justin Kuek … More Drifting Toward Insanity, Tyranny, and Destruction: The USA
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