21st Century Hymns

One of the benefits of setting up the PowerPoint for worship on Sunday is you often have to type the words to the songs into the computer. I have often found a profound sermon hidden in the words of a hymn we will sing (often more profound than the sermon I was going to preach). …

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Look Busy

Today Ed Stetzer wrote on his blog, On May 19, 1780 the sky over Connecticut turned dark - so dark that they needed candles to see at noon. The darkness spread as far as they could see, every town in the area that they could contact experienced the same thing. It was shocking, frightening, and …

Modern Day Proverbs on Good and Evil

I taught my last Proverbs class today and we looked at an interesting contrast between modern day proverbs and the proverbs in the Bible. I found a website explaining modern proverbs (a stitch in time saves nine, a penny saved is a penny earned) and created a Wordle of all the proverbs listed. A Wordle …

Finding Hope In Haiti

If you have seen the pictures and video from Haiti over the past couple of weeks I am sure that you were overwhelmed with a sense of helplessness. While I can send money in an effort to help, I feel so overwhelmed by the scope of the disaster. A country without social services, without addresses, …

A Word About Coffee And The Stars

Warning: This blog entry contains a Science geek-out. Reader discretion is advised! Last night when we got home from Kids Night Out at church the kids were noticing the stars and that got me started. Mars is out right now in the early evening (look east for a red steady looking 'star') This led us …

Doubting Thomas

This is for a friend: Doubting Thomas by Nickel Creek What will be left when I've drawn my last breath, Besides the folks I've met and the folks who know me, Will I discover a soul saving love, Or just the dirt above and below me, I'm a doubting thomas, I took a promise, But …

Taking Jesus For Who He Is

Jesus has a history of not matching up with people's expectations. In Luke 7 Jesus is healing blind people, sick people. He interrupts a funeral to raise a widow's son from the dead! His ministry is epic! Not everyone's expectations are being met though. The disciples are probably thinking, “We are spending too much time …

My Head and My Heart Need To Talk

Click here for an UPDATE My heart has been heavy for the past couple of days. One of my favourite mentors Matt Chandler had a seizure a couple of weeks ago and received word that it was caused by a brain tumor. They went in just over a week ago to remove the tumor and …

Blown Away

Sorry while I geek out here for a bit. NASA released a new picture Tuesday from the new camera installed in the Hubble Space Telescope last fall. It is a picture of a microscopic portion of the sky (1 / 50 of an degree square). This portion of the sky would easily fit behind the head …

Letting Your Children Go

Your children are not your own, they are God's sons and daughters. They come through you but not from you and though they are with you they do not belong to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not …