Every year on December 6th (or close to it) our family celebrates Saint Nicholas Day. The kids love it because they get a small taste in their stocking of the gifts that are coming on Christmas Day. My wife and I love it because we get to share a small version of the history (and [...]
Read More brother, celebrate, celebration, Christ, Christmas, Claus, dad, daughter, day, December, Eve, family, feast, fireplace, gifts, heartfelt, Jesus, memories, mom, Myra, Nicholas, presents, saint, Santa, sister, son, stockings, tradition, treeMy church has a great donut shop just down the street. I hardly ever order a donut but I’m becoming quite addicted to their coffee. It is much nicer inside than any other donut shop I’ve ever been in. There are soft comfortable chairs a fireplace and a flat screen TV. Like every other pastor [...]
Read More coffee, customer, donut, doughnuts, friendly, friends, greet, greeters, guests, horton's, love, service, tim, value, welcomeHere is my “Top Ten” (Part 1, 10 -6) list of things I don’t care about anymore. Tomorrow I’ll publish 5-1. Next up: Things that didn’t used to matter to me that now do! TOP 10: Things I Don’t Care About Anymore (Part 1): 10. Fitting In: I spent so much of my life stuck [...]
Read More 10, arguing, arguments, Christ, Christian, Christianity, church, fame, Jesus, limelight, music, ten, topThere is plenty of bad news out there. Really bad news. Cities are being devastated by storms, bombs, and poverty. Just about every Western government is so broke they are borrowing money to keep the doors open. Our wages aren’t going up as fast as the price of food, oil, or electricity. Bad news isn’t [...]
Read MoreI hope that each time my faith is tested, that I come through for Jesus. I read courageous stories about ancient Christians under persecution for their faith and I wonder if many of us can measure up. In the pages of history, Christians persevere through slow, violent deaths. In today’s U.S., churchgoers leave the church [...]
Read More bullets, cartel, children, Christian, Faith, Jesus, Martha, martyr, mexico, Monterrey, persecution, persevere, school, shooting, teacherI’m writing in response to recent comments made by Stephen Hawking. I have not the education nor the accolades that Hawking possesses. Please forgive my lack of such credentials, just as I forgive his lack of sound research or academic honesty. Reknowned physicist and uber braniac Stephen Hawking has declared that “heaven” is not real, and [...]
Read More academic, aliens, Bible, black, Christians, death, eternal, eternity, god, Hawking, heaven, holes, honesty, humanity, Jesus, omnipotent, resurrection, science, Scripture, soul, Stephen, time, travel, wormhole, wormholesIt is never a good thing for us to celebrate death, since it is the result of our sin against God. However this time, my emotion and desire has clearly overwhelmed my theology. Osama bin-Laden is dead. The man who orchestrated massive terror attacks against the United States and other nations has been identified, killed, [...]
Read More bin, bin-laden, derek, driscoll, furtick, god, Grace, hyatt, Jesus, justice, laden, mark, mercy, michael, new, osama, punish, steven, usama, webb, wrath, yankees, york“RIP typewriter” has been a top ten trending topic on Twitter all morning. Apparently nobody is buying typewriters anymore, and the last “official” manufacturer in Mumbai India has closed down. It doesn’t surprise me that a typewriter manufacturer is closing the doors in 2011. What DOES surprise me is that they were still around at [...]
Read More church, disciple, discipleship, evangelism, ministry, outdated, relevant, typewriter, typewritersEternity isn’t for disembodied souls. We await a true, literal, physical resurrection from the dead. God created life; sin ruined it to death. Jesus restored humanity to life: our hope is in the resurrection. We are not destined to float about the clouds as spirits and ghosts. We are not destined to be formed from [...]
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