Archive for October, 2003
I want to share a poem with you I received in an email today. It was written by someone at the International House of Prayer (IHOP) in Kansas City. ONE CLEAR THOUGHT His God is good whose hands held high proclaim His righteousness, who bears in grief – by God-giv’n grace alone – a burden [...]
I need to connect with life. Life with a capital “L”. I’m both physically alive and dead at the same time. Not that I think that I’ve lost my salvation or anything. No. I’m just not experiencing any of that “abundant living” that Jesus came and died for. And I want to. Desperately. I know [...]
God, I hate corporate America… it is so dehumanizing! I just got back from signing up with a staffing service (which shall remain nameless) here in Virginia Beach. I walked away from the process feeling like a total loser because I was honest and my clothes were a little too casual and wrinkled. Mental note: [...]
Real Live Preacher Ok, so if you’ve never read this guy’s blog, perhaps you should start?
The Cubs Curse I went to bed disappointed last night that the Cubs had blown their chance at the World Series. I’m not a major baseball fan, mind you, but I’d been following the Cubs since they got into the NL playoffs. I despise the New York Yankees and was excited by the prospect of [...]
I’ve deliberately stayed away from blogging anything very personal for the last several days because I am dealing with conflict on a lot of different levels. At some point, you just have to wonder, “Is it me? Am I the problem?” I’ve been doing a lot of inner healing work and surfacing and processing a [...]
In the “News of the Weird” Dept… BBC NEWS | Health | Foetus with three parents created
Peter Kreeft on C.S. Lewis – by Jedd Medefind: “What gives Lewis’ writings their remarkable staying power? Is there something Lewis offers that modern Christian thinkers lack? The question has two parts: what does Lewis have and what do most modern Christian writers lack? My answer is that my own question gets it wrong. It’s [...]
Joel Mowbray: ‘Nuking’ the State Department Joel comments on his now controversial conversation with Pat Robertson…
My wife, Doris, finds all the good stuff! Philemon (1-2): “Early Christians built no large churches or cathedrals. Instead they met in homes for worship and sharing. Based on the size of homes in 1st century cities, meetings must have accommodated a very limited number of people. Yet as Paul’s letters show, there was a [...]