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A Gift Not A Loan
Christian Living Today | December 21st 2009
I rarely share an extended direct quote from someone else. However, reading through ‘Random Thoughts, Vol 1’ - a newsletter written by Jim Osman, pastor of the Kootenai Community Church in Kootenai, Idaho - something struck me as incredibly impor read more
Keep A Pure Mind
Christian Living Today | December 17th 2009
To borrow an illustration from a good friend: What happens if you drop your glove into a mud puddle. Does the puddle become glovy or does the glove become muddy? I’ll admit in that context the question seems silly. However, that is the beauty of il read more
Is God Good?
Christian Living Today | December 7th 2009
I may be a little naive, but I suspect most true Christians today do not struggle with accepting God as sovereign. Granted there are some who preach and others who believe God is a hand-wringing deity, stymied by unexpected actions, scurrying around read more
How to Fix the American Christian – Unifying Faith and Prax…
Cerulean Sanctum | December 1st 2009 by Dan Edelen
A current theme erupting throughout the Godblogosphere concerns taking the Church back to the Gospel. I think that’s a noble effort. As a flawed human among flawed humans, though, I worry that even such an essential “recovery” runs read more
Processed Honesty- Part 2
Understanding The Bible .TV | Online Church | All Topics Co… | November 29th 2009 by Andrew
Today’s Understanding Broadcast is a continuation of the teaching on Processed Honesty. The Processed Honesty teaching is a relationship essential and will help to take your key relationships to a new level. read more
Processed Honesty (Part 1)-Relationship Skills
Understanding The Bible .TV | Online Church | All Topics Co… | November 28th 2009 by Andrew
Today’s Understanding Broadcast is focused on a key relationship principle-”Processed Honesty” This broadcast will help you take a biblical principle. “A poor man is better than a liar” This is a powerful message f read more
21 Aspects of Godly Character-Pastor Michael T. Smith
Understanding The Bible .TV | Online Church | All Topics Co… | November 27th 2009 by Andrew
Audio of Pastor Michael T. Smith’s first message in his 21 Aspects of Godly Character teaching. Instruction, Correction and Criticism is the foundation to establishing yourself in the character of God. Video and Full Series available at Word read more
How to Fix the American Christian – Lightening the Load
Cerulean Sanctum | November 24th 2009 by Dan Edelen
At a time of the year when Americans lose their collective minds and buy throwaway gifts for senseless reasons, the Scriptures say this: And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” A read more
A Righteous Judgment
Christian Living Today | November 23rd 2009
One cannot help but marvel at the hypocrisy which riddles our world. While we are often frustrated at how quick non-Christians are to call Christians, in general, hypocrits, the truth is we are guilty of this sin. And, while we might expect our cultu read more
How to Fix the American Christian – Series Announcement
Cerulean Sanctum | November 22nd 2009 by Dan Edelen
Recently, I wrote a post that discussed why the Church in America is not living up to its calling (”Why Christianity Is Failing in America“). Readers asked what I thought we could do to turn tragedy into triumph, so I responded with an ov read more
Why Christianity Is Failing in America – Further Thoughts
Cerulean Sanctum | November 17th 2009 by Dan Edelen
I almost always post on Monday. I didn’t yesterday because I was thinking more about my post from Friday, “Why Christianity Is Failing in America.” A couple readers asked the question I knew would come—”"So how do we fix the read more
Why Christianity Is Failing in America
Cerulean Sanctum | November 13th 2009 by Dan Edelen
Over at First Things, Jared Wilson posts a passionate call by Ray Ortlund Jr. for a recovery of the Gospel in modern America. It’s a needful call I utterly support. Yet despite the clarion nature of Ortlund’s words, a fundamental problem read more
Your Best Dog-Licked-Sores Life Now
Cerulean Sanctum | November 9th 2009 by Dan Edelen
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. M read more
Splintered Kingdom
Cerulean Sanctum | November 5th 2009 by Dan Edelen
I used to always get a laugh when Leonard Ravenhill would comment, “Let’s talk about church abominations…uh, I mean denominations.” Yeah, that one always got me chuckling. A couple weeks ago, the youth pastor at our church lam read more
Killing Your Conscience
Christian Living Today | November 2nd 2009
The subjects of my reading are somewhat various right now. My time is FAR too limited. Thus, my thoughts are somewhat eclectic at times. I believe this is a good thing. After all, as cohesion comes, I am finding the various thoughts are really just b read more
Pro-Life—But Not Really
Cerulean Sanctum | November 1st 2009 by Dan Edelen
I don’t normally talk politics here, but an issue facing Ohio voters illustrates for me what is most hypocritical about a wide swath of American Evangelicalism. And it’s a stupid, mindless hypocrisy at that. Stick with me for what seems l read more
Compassion For Strangers
Christian Living Today | October 27th 2009
I believe I ‘ranted’ a bit in my last post on hospitality. My apologies. Ranting really is not necessary. However, the hospitality issue has really been brought to the forefront in my thinking lately. As a result, I am doing some research and rea read more
What Is Your Passion?
Christian Living Today | October 25th 2009
What makes you tick? If you were to encapsulate your most driving passion, your greatest desire, the one thing you cannot live without, the one thing which would make you the most happy, what would it be? I have been pondering these questions, and mo read more
Slope Lube
Cerulean Sanctum | October 23rd 2009 by Dan Edelen
From Wikipedia’s list of logical fallacies: Slippery slope: argument states that a relatively small first step inevitably leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant impact If my own life and the experiences of the last n read more
Judge Not
Christian Living Today | October 23rd 2009
Every culture has its taboos, its weaknesses, its quirks. This is as old as time and should come as no surprise. What should shock and concern us, however, is how easily cultural norms infect the church. Sadly, this too is as old as time. In Jesus da read more
The Money God
Cerulean Sanctum | October 18th 2009 by Dan Edelen
Here in Ohio, we have yet another voter referendum on casinos, Issue 3. In the course of the last 25 years of my life, pro-casino forces have tried to shove gambling down the throats of Ohioans with one voter referendum after another, but we’ve read more
Law Church, Gospel Church
Cerulean Sanctum | October 11th 2009 by Dan Edelen
Did we in our own strength confide Our striving would be losing… —Martin Luther, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” One of the phenomena I continue to watch within some Evangelical and charismatic circles is an extreme dependence on t read more
What Makes You Happy? - Part Two
Christian Living Today | October 9th 2009
As we saw last time, true happiness is a double pronged fork. True happiness is found by avoiding something and by pursuing something else. We are to avoid sinfulness - even more particularly, we are to avoid getting our advise and patterning our liv read more
Bank Account of the Living Dead
Cerulean Sanctum | October 7th 2009 by Dan Edelen
When people talk about original sin, they love to point to toddlers committing two obvious sins: lying and screaming “MINE!” all the time. It’s so desperate and obvious it makes us laugh. Nobody laughs when adults do it, though. Whi read more
What Makes You Happy? Part One
Christian Living Today | October 7th 2009
Our church is going through a transition time. Our pastor moved on, and we are still in the seeking process. Thus our pulpit has been filled with a variety of ministers and teachers over the last several weeks - some ordained ministers, some lay pers read more
Not a Faith of Fear
Cerulean Sanctum | October 1st 2009 by Dan Edelen
If you asked me what I thought was the general feeling sweeping the contemporary Church in America, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second. It’s fear. Each day, my email inbox fills with messages of conspiracy, worries of persecution, legal rig read more
Jumping from Bridges
Cerulean Sanctum | September 27th 2009 by Dan Edelen
A couple weeks back, I spoke with a brother about the following passages in Acts depicting the economy of the early Church: And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and di read more
The Finger in the Mirror
Cerulean Sanctum | September 23rd 2009 by Dan Edelen
We hear the word repentance bandied about in Christians circles, and in some of those circles, it’s practically a mantra. The list of things we Christians need to repent from is an arm long, filled with things like lust, jealousy, faithlessness read more
Equipping the Saints: Leaders, Doers, and Community
Cerulean Sanctum | September 20th 2009 by Dan Edelen
This will be my final post in the Equipping the Saints series. I could probably write on Christian Education issues forever, but I have other things to say, so I’m going to wrap this up for now. Strangely, one of the things I’ve been accu read more
A Portrait Of Contentment - Part 2
Christian Living Today | September 18th 2009
“What? Another post on contentment? This blogger must really be an unhappy person! Me? I’m just the opposite. I like where I live. I’m happily married. My kids are great. I even like my dog (or cat or fish).” Dear Reader, Forgive me f read more
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