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More Important Things: Christmas Greetings
A Holiday Tree? It’s Christmas time, or the holidays are upon us, again. And predictably, Christians and traditionalists are duking it out with many in the broader culture regarding whether or not the correct greeting is “Merry Christmas&...
Death Of FUD: Swine Flu Not So Bad
The Swine Flu Virus The internet is a great enemy of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt), and there have been many things this year about which there is great FUD. FUD is the friend of people who would abuse their power, because there is nothing quit...
Confident Christians
Living With Confidence In A Chaotic World Reading Dr. David Jeremiah’s latest book “Living With Confidence In A Chaotic World” I found myself encouraged and inspired to develop deeper personal spiritual disciplines and to show the p...
No Tame Lion
Aslan: No Tame Lion This Sunday’s sermon was another eye-opener for me. Pastor Todd has been taking us through a series on changes in life, God’s purpose for them, and the tools He’s made available to us in dealing with those change...
Good Father
Fatherhood is manly I’ve been surprised of late at the sources and volume of negative or, at best, ambivalent feelings towards fathers and fatherhood. My wife is getting involved in the ladies ministry at our church and there was a coffee and t...
Short Reflections On The Nature Of God
What is the nature of God? It can be said that it is easier to accurately define and completely understand the concept of infinite that to even begin to comprehend God. Something I have wondered about for quite some time is how did God decide what th...
Just A Reminder
In times like this, when people around us seem to be trusting so much in a man, or an idea, or anything under the sun. Refusing to put their hope in the creator of the sun. In times like this when the false hope is failing and flailing and falling. W...
The Predestination Paradox
This is a repost from June 4th, 2008. A friend of mine and I were discussing this tonight and I was trying to recall where I’d read this reconciliation of the two viewpoints. Funny I should find myself the author. This is only the lightest of t...
In The Confession…
…of concrete sins the old man dies a painful, shameful death before the eyes of a brother. Because this humiliation is so hard, we continually scheme to avoid it. Yet in the deep mental and physical pain of humiliation before a brother we exper...
Almost Nearly Perfect
It made me laugh, my wife cried. Rick and Bubba’s Guide to the Almost Nearly Perfect Marriage is a gem of a book for all people who want a healthy and balanced marriage built to last. Rick and Bubba, for those who, like me, don’t recogniz...
Pray Steadfastly
In the sermon this morning, Pastor Todd spoke on the imperative command via Paul that we pray steadfastly. Using the short text of Colossians 4:2: “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.” (ESV) Using both ...
God’s Commands Turn Out…
…to be doorways to intimacy with Him. And the best kept secret about obedience in the face of hard temptation is that there is a blessing waiting on the other side. Satan doesn’t want us to know that. He would prefer the usual succumb-and...
Looking Forward (And Backward) 9 Months In, 3 Months To Go
As of a few days ago, Grace and I’ve been married 9 months. And our son is due to emerge into the world in 3 more months. Marriage has settled down a little, perhaps. I feel safe and comfortable around my wife and maybe take her a little for gr...
How To Evangelize
Going through Piper’s “Don’t Waste Your Life” series in Sunday School, yesterday we discussed his admonition that we ought to “gladly make others glad”. First, our gladness equates to the fullness of our joy, our s...
What is our problem?
What makes us so special? Rather than embarking on a long dialogue, as is my norm, I want to instead throw some things out on the table for you to think about. First . . . do we really readthe Bible, or do we just preview it through our Americanized ...
In the Name of the Jesus, the Christ (a defence of Propserity Preachers)
Christianity has been recently buzzing with with what some people call a “prosperity” gospel. Over simplified, this gospel refers to a leader (preacher) calling on his people to becomes saved and everything will be taken care of (to the e...
Obama: The Man And The Idea
(A)s we revel in this gush of happy feelings it is important to recognize that not all change is good. It is important to recognize that we need to pin our hopes on solid ideas or our hopes will be quite hopeless. On that depressing note I beg your p...
An Informed Life
On a recent Michael Medved show a caller, identifying himself as a moderately liberal high school political science teacher, stated that the conservative force he fears most in America is from the Christian conservatives who allow their theology to i...
Life Well Lived
When I die, I don’t want the words “he was a good man” said at my funeral. Not that nor any derivation thereof. In some of the deeper quandaries I’ve been dealing with lately, a seems to recur: “I don’t want to reg...
Review: Orthodox Study Bible
As a member of the Thomas Nelson Publishers’ Book Review Bloggers, I spent a few weeks exploring the Orthodox Study Bible and here is my review: The Orthodox Study Bible is an excellent resource for studying the Bible. As a Christian of the eva...
Truth Has No Chance
I’ve read several articles thanks to links from bloggers and news pages which claim that the ‘first’ Thanksgiving was nothing but the orgies of Europeans occupying the homes and tilling the fields of the deceased tribes of Native Am...
