It’s Not Easter for Me Anymore

Why do most Christians refer to the day of Christ’s resurrection, when His victory over death, hell and the grave was won and his atoning sacrifice was shown to be sufficient to remove God’s wrath and the penalty of sin, with a name that comes from pagan goddess worship?
“The true meaning and definition of the [...]

God Is Good (All the time?)

One time a few years ago at church, a woman stood to give a testimony about how she had suffered from a physical ailment for a long time.  She was giving glory to God because she had not been having the problem for a while, and it seemed that she may have been healed from [...]

The Cubs and Time

With baseball season just around the corner, Scot McKnight has posted 20 things that have happened since the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.  Among them:
1. Radio was invented; Cub fans got to hear their team lose.
2. TV was invented; Cub fans got to see their team lose.
3. Baseball added 14 teams; Cub fans got [...]

Facebook Meets Wisdom

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17, ESV

Stephen Altrogge, at The Blazing Center, has a thoughtful post on using Facebook wisely for the glory of God.  He approaches the subject in terms of three categories:  relationship [...]

Not for April Fool’s

When I first saw this, I thought it had to be an April Fool’s joke.  Then I saw that it was posted on February 20th.  Now, I realize that I should not have been surprised in the first place.

On Young People and the Emerging Church

“Young people will give their lives for an exclamation point, but they will not give their lives for a question mark, not for very long anyway.  Once the protest runs out and the emerging church has its own blogdom, and conferences, and church networks, and book deals, there will be no exclamation point, and all [...]

The Saddest Verse in the Bible

“And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.”

Judges 2:10

This was the second generation after the Israelites who were led by Moses and Aaron out of slavery in Egypt.  All of that [...]