My friend Lon Oliver writes a very perceptive Internet piece for our region. He wrote me today asking to print a prayer that I wrote over a year ago about the Iraq...
I have a Men's Breakfast meeting on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month. They love to come. I usually pass out a copy of the Scripture I will be using for the...
My preacher-buddy and I continued the discussions of religion and politics all the way home. I found myself shocked when he said that government should take no...
So one of the great debates my pastor-buddy and I have had this week centers on authority versus servanthood. "Authority" is a popular word among conservative-types. ...
Last week, a pastor friend and I attended a pastors' conference in Chicago. I might not have gone at all except my friend insisted that I go with him. I am usually...
Alex Johnson of MSNBC has an article entitled "Evangelicals Rethink Their Public Face" which has some interesting observations. I was struck by this section:...
At long last, I have found a way to get on the Internet with my own computer while attending the Pastor's Conference at Moody Bible Institute. First the ports in the...
Today I am at MBI. My Presbyterian buddy talked me into going with him to the Pastors' Conference at Moody Bible Institute. I know that is an unlikely place for a liberal...
Well, it's not every day that the New York Times does a major article on a member of your church, but that's what happened today. They sent four different reporters and...
Last year CBS threatened to shoot a modern day Beverly Hillbillies type reality show, but there was such an outcry that they would be putting Eastern Kentucky in a bad light...
In researching some ideas for my Pentecost sermon, I came across a wonderful post on Beliefnet by Frederica Matthewes-Green entitled "From Clapping Hands to Still, Small...
Some other blogs have pointed me to the very interesting and philosophical discusson going on at Rockridge Institute, which adds these descriptive phrases to their website,...
I first became familiar with writing styles using a technic of building straw men and tearing them to shreds years ago when studying a critic of Ayn Rand's...
One of the great joys of being a pastor is the love of the children. I sound like Michael Jackson when he said recently, "Adults have disappointed me." Isn't that...
I'll post a couple of Greg's pictures of our bike ride here, then give a link to his site for more. ROBO COP! Here is Greg's Journal Page. Go down on the page a...
It started as a typical Thursday except for the fact that I had nothing on the calendar for the day until 4:30. So I started as usual about 8, and began to do some good...
Jim Wallis of Sojourners offers an excellent article referring to the Baptist church that kicked out nine members because they voted for Kerry. He starts this way:...
Recently, I preached a sermon about Jesus being the cornerstone of our faith. There are many such passages in the Bible that talk about stones and rocks. God is...
Sometimes taking a public stance is the right thing to do. Most of us would rather support our causes while sitting on the couch, but sometimes we need to get to our feet...
The last election saw some religious people skating very close to the line on endorsing candidates. The code pharase "Vote your values" clearly meant "Vote Republican" as...
True confession. I frequently check to see how many hits my weblog is receiving. Most of the time it is somewhere around 100 per day, but sometimes it spikes upwards...
Yesterday at church, one of the young mothers told me about a conversation with her fifth grade daughter who returned from a youth event at another church. The girl asked,...
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