Posted in Current Events, Faith, Faith Chat, General Interest, God, Life, Music, Spirituality, Thoughts on April 26, 2008 | Comments Off
A musician-friend just emailed me this article from the Washington Post. Joshua Bell, child prodigy, world-renowned concert artist, disguises himself and takes up busking in the Washington DC metro during morning rush hour.
In the words of the Post article, “No one knew it, but… at the top of the escalators [...]
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Faith, Faith Chat, General Interest, God, Jesus, Kingdom, Life, Prayer, Reformed Theology, Religion, Spirituality, The Emerging Church, Theology, Thoughts on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What does it mean to be born again? One of our regular readers posed the question over the weekend, and the Spirit tells me it’s very timely. Here goes!
There are only four sentences in the Bible where the two-word phrase “born again” appears.* Of these four sentences:
Two are [...]
Posted in BlogSurfing Finds, General Interest, Humor, Life, Religion on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Final exams are almost upon us… time for a little humor break!
Not sure what religion you believe in? Like to try something new and different for a change? Check out The Religionizer! Change religions as often as you like! Discover which religion requires you to take clarinet lessons! Learn which [...]
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church, Current Events, Episcopal/Anglican Stuff, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Jesus, Life, Literature, Sacramental Theology, Spirituality, The Emerging Church, Theology on April 13, 2008 | Comments Off
A friend sent me this article awhile ago and I’ve been meaning to post about it ever since. The article is a Time Magazine piece (Feb ‘08 ) entitled “Christians Wrong About Heaven, Says Bishop” — an interview with Bishop of Durham N.T. Wright about his new book Surprised by Hope, on the subject [...]
Posted in BlogSurfing Finds, Christianity, Church, Current Events, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Jesus, Life, Religion, The Emerging Church, Theology on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Take a look at this post on InternetMonk.com about a sermon the author heard in an evangelical Bible-teaching church in which Jesus’ name was never mentioned. Another example — and excellent points — regarding what I was talking about in my previous posts on “What NOT to Believe In” and “What TO Believe In“. It’s [...]
Posted in Faith, General Interest, Humor, Life, Thoughts on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw a sign on the highway on the way to work today that said “AWARENESS WEEK”. That’s all it said.
The sign looked something like this…
…except the third line read “AWARENESS WEEK” and the first two lines had gone completely on the fritz and were no longer visible.
Awareness Week. Now there’s an [...]
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Jesus, Life, Q and A, Spirituality, The Emerging Church, Theology, Thoughts on April 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »
After writing a lengthy post on what NOT to believe in — that is, how to identify quasi-Christian movements that are NOT the real thing — a couple of people challenged me to take on a more difficult question: what TO believe in. In other words, how can you tell if the church or [...]
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church, Current Events, Episcopal/Anglican Stuff, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Jesus, Kingdom, Life, Reformed Theology, Religion, Spirituality, The Emerging Church, Theology, Thoughts on April 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
[Jesus said] “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matt 7:13-14, NIV)
There’s something going on out there. [...]
Posted in Christianity, Church, Church History, Episcopal/Anglican Stuff, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Jesus, Kingdom, Life, Q and A, Sacramental Theology, Spirituality, Theology, Thoughts on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another good reader question! First I’ll need to define the word laypeople, and after that I’ll talk about what my church — the Anglican church — teaches about the role of laypeople. I’d love to delve into every church’s teaching on the subject but if I did this post would get way too [...]
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church, Faith, Faith Chat, Family and Friends, God, Jesus, Kingdom, Life, Sermons, Spirituality, Theology, Thoughts on April 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This past Sunday (March 30, 2008 ) I had the honor of preaching my first sermon. It was given at the Presbyterian church where I work and had its beginnings in last semester’s final exam for Biblical Interpretation class. Entitled “The Power of the Cross“, a video of the sermon can be found at [...]
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Faith, Faith Chat, God, Jesus, Life, Spirituality, Theology on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now here’s a mysterious character! From Genesis, chapter 14, verses 17-20:
“After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest [...]
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