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Posted in Life, The Church on Apr 23rd, 2010
An attack on freedom of speech or another attack on Christianity? You decide. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is banning personal messages on eye-black patches. Last year, Florida quarterback Tim Tebow made news by writing a different Scripture verse on his eye black for each game. Known now as the “Tebow Rule,” the regulations ban [...]
Posted in The Church on Mar 31st, 2010
This nurse was ordered to quit wearing her crucifix due to health and safety reasons. However, two Muslim doctors were allowed to wear headscarves. It seems to me that the headscarves would carry a much higher health and safety risk. This is just another case of discrimination against Christians. Nurse Shirley Chaplin, 54, said she [...]
Posted in The Church on Mar 3rd, 2010
This survey is intended for teens, but it could fit anyone. Which one are you? via Scoffer, Slacker, Seeker, or Saint?.
Posted in Parenting, The Church on Dec 30th, 2009
Ingrid hits the nail on the head once again. The full article is well worth reading. How do you raise girls to be useful, Christ-centered, godly and modest in a so-called “Christian” environment that no longer values these things? Lip service is paid to “Jesus” by parents and church youth groups, but I find it [...]
Posted in Life, The Church on Jun 21st, 2009
even when we least expect it! Our house is about 45 years old. (These days 45 doesn’t sound old at all.) We have three oak trees that are probably at least as old as the house. One is right smack in the middle of the back yard, another right in the middle of the front [...]
Posted in Government, Politics, The Church on Apr 13th, 2009
The annual White House Easter Egg Roll is one of the oldest annual events of the White House going back to 1878. Some say that Dollie Madison started the event, while others believe that origins of the event go all the way back to President Lincoln. Either way, the tradition has been around for nearly [...]
Posted in Health, Life, Parenting, Politics, The Church on Oct 23rd, 2008
Posted in Global Warming, Life, Politics, The Church on Sep 2nd, 2008
“I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said, laughing. “To have it planned at the same time – that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for day one of the Republican Convention, up in the Twin Cities – at the top of [...]
Posted in Politics, The Church on Sep 1st, 2008
Oprah on Obama’s acceptance speech: "I cried my eyelashes off," she said in the bowels of Invesco Field, moments after Obama accepted the nomination for president before an estimated 84,000 people. I suppose Oprah can say she’s not your ordinary woman. Other women pass out in Obama’s presence. "I think it’s the most powerful thing [...]
Posted in Health, Parenting, The Church on Jun 30th, 2008
A woman in the UK is carrying the first baby guaranteed to be free of breast cancer. Using in vitro fertilization, 11 embryos were created and tested at 3 days old. Six carried the breast cancer gene. Two were implanted resulting in a single pregnancy and two were frozen for future use. Any daughter born [...]
Posted in The Church on Jun 22nd, 2008
in the supernatural!? Angels are fellow servants: I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things. But he said to me, “Do not do that. I am a fellow servant of [...]
Posted in The Church on Apr 1st, 2008
I’ve wanted to write about this, but not wanting to put a damper on the Easter holiday, I decided to wait until after Easter. First Look, a publisher of Sunday school materials for one to five-year olds has decided that the crucifixion is “too scary for preschoolers.” Their Holy Week Sunday school lessons included no [...]
Posted in Life, The Church on Mar 26th, 2008
A few weeks ago our pastor asked for oxymorons. People came up with various ones like pure evil, good grief, etc. I’ve run across another one (and, no, I won’t be letting the pastor know): Christian sex magazine. Apparently, this magazine has been around for a few years in South Africa. It has become so [...]
Posted in Global Warming, The Church on Mar 15th, 2008
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has signed an initiative called “A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change.” “We believe our current denominational engagement with these issues has often been too timid, failing to produce a unified moral voice,” the church leaders wrote in their new declaration. The document also [...]
Posted in The Church on Mar 3rd, 2008
David Jeremiah has written an article about reading from the book of Proverbs everyday. He says that he attended a conference where he was given the challenge to do this everyday for a year. Since Proverbs has 31 chapters to it, you basically read a chapter a day. Whatever day of the month it is, [...]
Posted in The Church on Feb 20th, 2008
A pastor of a church in Florida has challenged its married couples to have sex (I’m assuming with their spouses) every day for the next 30 days. The pastor is using the divorce rate as his excuse for the challenge. Relevant Church head pastor Paul Wirth said the 50 percent divorce rate was the catalyst [...]
Posted in Homeschool, The Church on Feb 1st, 2008
Many, if not most churches have some sort of youth group. “Youth group” can mean different things to different people. Parents should evaluate whether youth groups are something their teens should participate in and not assume that it’s worthwhile just because it is a church activity. What is the purpose of the group? “Youth group” [...]
Posted in The Church on Nov 24th, 2007
A recent article in “The Christian Post” states that Christian parents are likely to spend more then $1 billion on media products this Christmas season. Wow! Someone out there is buying up this stuff, because I sure am not. Seventy-eight percent of Christian parents purchased DVDs in the past year for their teenagers while 87% [...]
Posted in Politics, The Church on Nov 12th, 2007
Obama was on Meet the Depressed Sunday. I didn’t see the program, but went back to view some of it online and read some of the transcript. Obama claims that the democratic party sees the evangelical community as “hostile” and “people we don’t like.” “Tim, part of what I hope to offer as president is [...]
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