This doesn’t even account for how many children choose to not walk in their parents Christian faith. So what do you all think about this? Does it make you want to have more kids? Less? Don’t care? Let’s converse;).
Category Archives: Christianity
I Love Steve Brown!
I am not a televangelist kind of girl, nor radio evangelists usually. I’m more of the school that you should go and physically get yourself into the fellowship. But I love Steve Brown of Key Life Ministries. NerdDad introduced me to his radio show many years ago. It is a 15 minute deal that really makes you think. This is part of the reason I love him so:
I’m probably the most opinionated friend you have. I have an opinion on everything from Obama (didn’t vote for him) to global warming (I’m cold) to Christian music (I like Bach). I know what I like and don’t like and, frankly, I’m right about almost all of my opinions. It’s hard to be right all the time and it’s, also, quite irritating to those of us who are right to have people who aren’t right contradict us.
Now I don’t love because he has an opinion but because he informs himself and can have an opinion. Most of the time I agree with him. Most of the rest of the time, it is a case that I never thought of it the way he puts it so I need to muse to see if I agree. Then most of that time I agree too;). Go read why you as Christians need to go offend someone!
The Pope on Judas
I found this awesome quote from Pope Benedict XVI on Judas over at the Anchoress. I feel it is very true and poignant.
“Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows down before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashion. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried, ‘Away with Him! Crucify him!’”
— Pope Benedict XVI,
Great Song, Great Artist, Great Message
Need I say more?
Sunday School Reflections
In James 4 there is a verse that says to “Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”I put before you that this is so much more than just getting the dirt off. When I was a freshman in college I was blessed to attend a Shabbat at the local Chasidic rabbi’s house. 1 of the things I remember was a ceremonial washing of hands. Everyone (including me) did it after the men’s prayer time and before the meal. There wasn’t any scrubbing but a specific calm procedure that served to cleanse you. Could this be what James is referring too? A solem cleansing of our sould and being?
These are the things that I think about during Sunday School. Where the Old and the New collide without fanfare or attention.
Jelly Telly
I love VeggieTales! If you didn’t know that just means you don’t know me well;). Now Phil Vischer is behind a new venture called JellyTelly. Originally they were going to be charging but they aren’t any more (at least not for a while). While we are a pro-tv family, we wish there was more Christian media out there and this might be the answer! Watch the clips and then go check it out!!!
They are letting churches use the clips for download $4.99 to use over at JellyBits.
From the Mouths of Babes
So NerdPie (the 5 yo) is doing the extra credit book for Awana-Sparks and it requires that the kids read a book about a missionary. So I got a book on Junipero Serra (missionary to California) and it ever so slightly touched on the mistreatment of the Indians by the Spanish soldiers. She asked me right at that point if the soldiers killed some of the Indians and I answered her truthfully and said yes. So after we are done reading the book we are going through all the materials from Awana. One of the questions was about how the missionary tried to share the gospel. She said, “by killing them”. After NerdDad and I quit laughing we told her the difference between the soldiers and Father Serra. But then I got to thinking, how many people think that is how the church today is showing Christ? By attacking and being mean? Is that what we want them to see? How should we change our witness?
Beth Moore just said in the Esther video today that the world doesn’t care about our relationship with Christ but how we resemble Him.
There is your food for thought all started by a 5 year old.
Tithe Rap
This is great! Hilarity and a lesson. I think Pastor Pat should arrange something like this next time he preaches on money;).
Convicted By an Atheist
I have to say that many times I can really find myself convicted by people who don’t believe in God. I saw this video on the Anchoress.
When the Anchoress said:
The second message is as far from passive as you can get, and it comes from Jillette himself; “How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible, and not tell them that?”
Think about it. How many times have you not engaged someone – and not exclusively for the purpose of proselytizing, but on any level – because you’ve simply assumed they are ‘not the sort’ to be receptive to you, or they are ‘one of them’ – the avowed secularists? Is that a sort of passive, impersonal “hate?” When you’ve passed them by, have you stopped to think that everything a Christian says or does, how a Christian comports himself or herself, minute-by-minute, gives endless witness, and so only kindliness will do?
But another thing really hit me. He repeatedly says this is a good man. All it took for this businessman to make an impression was to be kind and sincere. I think that I can do at least that in life. But I can say that I often think it isn’t enough to count as far as my witness goes. I fear that I need just the right words, opportunities or something shockingly special. Apparently you don’t. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Penn Jillette has converted but can you deny a seed. Either in him or any of the many people who watches his little video? And how many Christian lives are going to be changed? I hope at least mine.
What if Starbucks Marketed Like Church?
I find this very thought provoking. What do you all think?