Long ago, I thought I understood this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. The [...]
I follow a twitterer (and blog writer) by the name of David Sitton. I love what he does in life and suppose I feel a sense of camaraderie that is bred from some sort of similarity in the way our lives have been orchestrated. He recently had an interesting article entitled The Missionary Call: How [...]
The whole Terry Jones burning the Koran thing is frustrating. The response to what he did by Muslims in Afghanistan proves to many that he is right; the response of those outside the church to him proves to them that all Christians are that way. Burning the Koran is not the way of Jesus; that [...]
Today is travel day… again. After the morning class, we’ll be making a dash across Curitiba to get to the airport. Bittersweet. I’m so excited about getting back and beginning to apply what I’ve learned. The future burns brighter than ever after two weeks in Brazil. Being here always cleans out my spiritual ears in [...]
My head hurts. I don’t think I’ve ever had to process as much as I have over the past week and a half; I don’t think I’ve ever been exposed to what I have been exposed to… I know I haven’t. I don’t even have doubts about what I’m supposed to do with it all. [...]
At The Message Church we have a gathering every Friday night that we call “Time Before Abba.” It typically is a time of soaking in His presence. Recently, however, that’s been changing. Seems the natives are getting restless, especially after our “Kingdom Come” event two weekends ago. We went from gently praying to rambunctiously ordering [...]
Remember those test questions on those SAT and ACT test that wanted to know which item in four did not belong to the group? Here’s one for you: a) Empty bottle of apple cider vinegar b) Sheriff’s Deputy c) Frost d) Joe Give up? The correct answer is “D.” After our Friday Night with Abba [...]
I vividly remember sitting in Bible classes in both undergraduate and graduate school, having intimidating professors sternly warn us young whipper-snappers that our heads held nothing but mush. We were told to “absorb” the breadth of their knowledge and experience; we were admonished to not venture into the land of “thinking” while we were still [...]
I was in a coffee shop the other day minding my own business. Next to me were two gentlemen carrying on an intense conversation. I was partially oblivious to them, involved in what I was doing. Until one of them spoke a bit louder and indignantly stated: “but that’s not normal!” Attention arrested, my ears [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of html and css coding these last few weeks. Coming in to work this morning, a new code command popped into my head: <religion>Jesus</religion> Yep! I think that says it nicely!
