Its going to be a long winter. well. maybe it won’t, but right now, in the middle of the season I love best, I’m beginning to feel the dread of a long winter.I wish I understood how I felt. I’m not usually short on words to describe my feeling, being…
Lore linked to an article on the current Brouhaha raging over Sarah Palin. Reading it I couldn’t help but agree with much of what author Camille Paglia writes. But it wasn’t until the end that I nearly stopped dead in my tracks.She writes, Let’s take the issue of abortion rights,…
The holy blitz rolls on | Salon Books The Christian right is a "deeply anti-democratic movement" that gains force by exploiting Americans’ fears, argues Chris Hedges. Salon talks with the former New York Times reporter about his fearless new book, "American Fascists." By Michelle GoldbergI found the interview surprisingly insightful,…
Foreign Affairs – God’s Country? – Walter Russell Mead “Religion has always been a major force in U.S. politics, but the recent surge in the number and the power of evangelicals is recasting the country’s political scene — with dramatic implications for foreign policy. This should not be cause for…
Through the course of living and relating to God, God teaches you things. Lately, He has been teaching me about Himself, teaching me to view Him as a Person not a Concept. In the course of this post I’d like to try and explain why this concept is important to…
(The following is an introduction to a much larger collection of essays I have been writing off and on for the past few years, and thus leaves much of the meat of what I introduce left unsaid. Keep in mind also that I’m not writing to my blog audience here.…
The thing about family is, its relationships are neither temporal nor conditional. If you are the son of your father, you will always be your father’s son. Unlike friendship, citizenship, and work relationships, all of which can cease to be true after a given amount of time, or under certain…
C. S. Lewis said that "[Repentance] is not something God demands of you before He will take you back…; it is simply a description of what going back is like." From the Faith Alone Journal’s article on The Theology of C. S. Lewis.
I’ve updated the Ajax Bible. It now displays all the references where a Strongs number is used in the bible.
Strategy #1 – Avoidance Don’t let your mind think about it. The moment it pops in your head, frantically think of something else… anything else. I call this avoidance… and cite Phil. 4:8-9 as scriptural reference. Avoidance works best if you combine it with Strategy #2. Strategy #2 – Turning…
Christians still die for their faith. The New York Sun report that Korean Reds and Targeting Christians. I found this excerpt exceptionally moving.The 20 parishioners were detained near their clergy, and watched, along with the assembled audience, as the five Christian leaders were told they could escape death if they…
Wycliff pointed this greek bible out to me. It looks really useful if you are a student of greek. It shows the meaning of each word in a javascript title tag and allows you to see a lot of meta data about the words usage.
Chinese get prison time for Bible delivery, says the Washington Times. All they did was hand out Bibles, and for that they get three years of prison. God bless them.
I’m not very good at introductions. I beg of you to bear with me and read on long enough to catch my meaning. What I’m writing here is important to me, because it reflects an internal struggle I face. I hate laziness (though not enough apparently to slap him in…
The Internet Monk writes an article about being tired of the weirdness in Christians. Its worth reading.
He’s indolent, lazy, and loves to introduce people to his big sister. He comes off looking harmless, mild, but he’s evil. His name is Boredom, and he is the gateway emotion to a much larger world of bad attitudes and feelings.
Moment of disaster are telling experiences. While watching the news unfold over the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, I was proud to hear the Southern Baptist Convention mentioned by name on the news. Thousands of Southern Baptist volunteers were some of the first people to respond to the disaster. Since 1967,…
Have you ever been in love? You know the feeling, the one that grows richer the longer you know the person. How many of you have someone you love very much? Have you ever loved someone that the impact of them on your life was so visibly evident that people…