In Case of Rapture, This Blog Will Be Unmanned

Have you seen that bumper sticker?  It’s actually about their car, but you get the idea.  I think Christians look weird when they use cute little phrases like that one on bumper stickers or T-shirts.  And now we’ve just become even weirder.  As proof, I give you: You’ve Been Left Behind.
For $40/year, they’ll allow you [...]

Intimate, Personal Relationships

We’re working through Philippians at staff meetings currently.  We’ve been through the first two chapters now and one thing that really stands out to me is Paul’s relationship with the people of Philippi.  You can just feel the love in this book.  It’s a wonderful glimpse of what God’s love for us is like.
Philippians is [...]

All New Again

As you know, I’ve been evaluating the ESV lately.  I originally wrote that it feels familiar and different all at the same time. I don’t remember the first Bible I received, but the oldest Bible I own is my NIV Study Bible that I got when I was confirmed in 1991.  One of the interesting [...]

Notes on 1 Timothy 1

As mentioned earlier, I’m working through 1 Timothy to help me evaluate the English Standard Version of the Bible.  Here are my notes from the first chapter:

1:2 - Paul calls Timothy his “true child in the faith.”  Paul obviously has a special, ongoing relationship with Timothy.  Discipleship is always happening, not just while our kids [...]

Updating the Scripture Memory

About a week ago now, I purchased a new Bible from my friends at Life Resources. It’s the first paper Bible in English (2 in Greek) that I’ve purchased in about 3 years. I decided to give the English Standard Version a try. Until I got to First Trinity, I always used [...]

Love Your Enemies

Jenn Bell has been teaching the 6th grade Sunday School class while Marsha Peth does Everyday Faith this semester.  I’m so thankful for Jenn’s willingness to love on the kids in our 6th grade class.  They’ve been working through the Fruits of the Spirit as a class.  For Love, one of the opening activities had [...]

Earth’s Other Moons

A story on Slashdot suggests the Earth may have had multiple moons at some point.  Like billions of years ago.  It made me think about evolution and why people believe it to be true.
The idea of Evolution, that we are the result of billions of years of development, seems ridiculous to me.  It makes us [...]

Can You Hear Me Now?

Seth Godin, easily my favorite non-friend/family blog that I read, posted about Signals vs. Noise recently.  You should read it.  Two thoughts:

What can we do to turn down the noise in our life so we can hear God’s signal?
Are we reflecting God’s signal or broadcasting white noise?

The good news?  To borrow a quote from Firefly: [...]

Pseudo-Christian

Neil Diamond’s song “Pretty Amazing Grace” on idol last night was interesting.  I assume he is a Christian as there were definite overtones of such in the lyrics.  The fact that the title and several lyrics are re-workings of the famous hymn by almost the same name point that way as well.  But do I [...]

Conformation

I can’t tell you how many times I see students misspell “Confirmation” as “Conformation.”  This is highly amusing to me knowing the traditional confirmation ministry is much closer to conformation in design and mind set.  I suppose there is some Biblical evidence for the misspelled name:
Romans 8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined [...]