Saw this article today floating around and thought I would share it with you, my friendly, faithful, and good looking readers. The Evangelical Manifesto [ link ] Are labels useful? Do they help? Was this manifesto necessary?

Breaking news just out of Rome this morning... Vatican Adds Seven New Deadly Sins Including Abortion, Contraception and Drug-Dealing [ link ] Just 14 deadly sins? And here I was foolishly thinking that scripture states all sin is deadly and that the penalty for all sin is death. Boy am I glad this has...

"In the world but not of the world", sort of like Hamlet's contemplation, "to be or not to be" and one area that most Christians find hard to deal with, agree on, or understand let alone implement. Each of us are called, each of us are on mission to go, to make disciples, in our...

When I was out in Washington the theme over and over and over again was preaching the Gospel within the context in which we live. Keep the scriptures true and unchanged but don't be afraid to engage the culture and use methods within the culture to reach those who haven't heard of Jesus. I had...

I am continually amazed at cell phone talkers and their inability to recognize that 1. they are in a public place carrying on a private conversation 2. the technology has advanced somewhat in recent years so it is not necessary to yell into the phone and 3. no one and I mean no one cares to listen in...

Freedom scares most people. Most cannot bare the idea that every box has not been checked, that every question has not been answered and so they develop rules, laws, traditions, methods systems to explain that which they cannot explain. This really is human nature, sort of a coping mechanism to make...

We had not planned on trick or treating last night, in fact, I have struggled every year as to how to participate/celebrate/act/re-act to the Halloween holiday. Yet something sweet happened last night. Right after supper our little angel came up to me and mom and said, "I want to trick or treat...

The new mother is desperate for sleep. The addicts is desperate for a fix. The sick are desperate for a cure. The dying man is desperate for life. Teddy Kennedy is desperate for a drink. Desperation occurs when all plans have failed, all thought, strategy, designs have gotten you nowhere, nada, nothing...

You have arrived or dare I say, your 65 inch LCD, HD TV has arrived. You have your pork rinds and plenty of Diet Coke on stock and the first 6 seasons of the Dukes of Hazard on DVD. You are fat, dumb, and very very happy. No matter what else is going on around you in the world you have found solace in...

Yesterday I decided to look for two new Bibles, one for myself and an illustrated one for my daughter. We have been doing evening devotions with L for a while out of a book M bought some time ago but also thought it would be a great idea to get a Bible we could all read together, besides....I am sure...