Well, today is Thanksgiving and the start of the downhill slide towards the hectic holiday season. The end of the year always feels like it is on fast-forward and before you know it we will be celebrating a New Year and wondering where 2008 went. But despite the hecticness, today is a day to remember […]
A Sad Day for My Country
Yesterday was a sad day. I didn’t stay up on Tuesday evening to see the results of the election but I knew when I went to bed that things didn’t look promising. When I awoke in the morning and turned on the radio my fears were confirmed. Barak Obama had won the election. Over the […]
Face Time with God
I was reading 1 Corinthians last night and was struck by the following verses: “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that […]
Stockpiling for Winter
A few years ago PBS aired a show called Frontier House. The basic idea was to place three families out in Montana to live life as it would have been like in 1883 out on the frontier. At the end of the show, the families were judged by historical experts as to how well they […]
The Role of Women in the Bible
Pulpit Magazine has a good post on God’s High Call for Women which discusses God’s design for women and their role in the church. Here is an excerpt: “God did not create the man and the woman at the same time, but rather He created Adam first and Eve later for the specific purpose of […]
Christian Business or Busyness?
Today I was adding some articles to the main website and had one of those moments where you stare at a word, wondering if the spelling is correct. Ever had that happen? Anyway, the word that I stared at for a few seconds, convinced that it was misspelled, was the word “business”. Instead of believing […]