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Thursday, July 31st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed. What’s an RSS feed? Good Question! Please read more here. Thanks for visiting!I’ve got a couple of feelings on this story.
One side of me is somewhat understanding. I like that cities and other entities are starting to get [...]
Sharing Your Faith- 3- How to Get the Ball Rolling
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008I don’t know what to say? How do you even get the ball rolling?
This is another one of those questions that dogs Christians as they seek to get over the hump and start sharing their faith. We want to do it. It just doesn’t seem to come up and anything we imagine saying sounds lame, [...]
Grand Question of the Week
Monday, July 28th, 2008My sister-in-law is heading to the Grand Canyon today as part of her long drive back home from Las Vegas.
Have you been to the Grand Canyon?
What did you think? Was it beautiful, or just a hole in the ground?
Chime in below…
New Additions to Family
Saturday, July 26th, 2008I thought I’d at least post a few brief words on our family. Jess and I have been working towards becoming foster parents for quite some time as many of you know and we’re happy to say that just over a week ago we received our first placements.
We have a foster daughter, Jaime (2 1/2 [...]
Saturday Thoughts on Prayer
Saturday, July 26th, 2008I love reading Old Testament stories that make you think a little. Not long ago I made some comments on the story of Balaam and the donkey, probing what was really going on that caused so much trouble there. Recently, I was reading another Old Testament story, that of the Israelites as they encountered the [...]
Friday Fun Links
Friday, July 25th, 2008**Newsflash**
Contrary to popular belief, pastors do NOT only work 1 day a week.
In fact, pastors only get 1 day off each week - if they have the discipline to choose to take it off.
I’m kind of bummed - Friday normally is my 1 day off, but I’ve got to get a lot of stuff done [...]
Reading the News Through the Lens of Faith- 12- Economic Downturns and Faith
Thursday, July 24th, 2008As I was glancing through news stories the last couple of days, I decided it wasn’t necessary to link to a particular story for this topic. The economic problems we face as a nation right now can be seen in so many stories in the headlines, that a single link hardly covers the issue. And [...]
Sharing Faith- Pt 2- Fear of Ridicule, I don’t want to be called “intolerant”
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008One of the greatest fears associated with sharing faith has to be some form of persecution. Now most people in today’s United States aren’t all that afraid of being jailed or hurt, but there is plenty of fear of ridicule.
In sharing your faith with a non-Christian there is the chance the person with whom you’re [...]
In a Pit with a Lion 5
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives. He blogs at: evotional.com
What’s on your to-do list today?
Whether you use Outlook Calendars, a Franklin-Covey planner, a piece of scrap paper, or just [...]
iQuestion of the Week
Monday, July 21st, 2008I mentioned last Friday that there was a pretty good story for the reason why I missed posting the Friday Fun links on July 11.
Here’s the summary of that story, in visual form:
Here’s the wordy version (with a gratuitous Jesus reference just for fun).
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