Category: Christianity

Last night, we had an itinerant evangelist, who is a friend of our pastor, visit our church. His name is David Brett and his form of evangelism is story telling. He made, what for me was an insightful statement about…

“It’s not the hardware, it’s the software. It’s not race, it’s culture.” Bill Whittle at Eject! Eject! Eject! Bill is arguing that culture (software), not race (hardware), has the most influence on what we become. At its heart Christianity, besides…

There is a continuing mantra (and a self-serving one) against judgment, especially in Christian circles, as if doing so was an outright evil thing. For Christians (and even many secularlists) the biblical passages ritualistically cited are Luke 6:37 or Matthew…

Most scanning technology (e.g. radar, sonar) uses in some form or fashion the properties of echoes, either active [full or partial] or missing, to define what it touches. In addition, most of what we see that has color (black being…

Pastor Mark Driscoll over at Acts 29 has a post on Religion versus the Gospel (H.T. The Evangelical Outpost). Mark uses the religion says this while the gospel says that approach. For example: Religion says, if I obey, God will…

In the Lord of the Rings, Faramir, one of the Dúnadan and a prince of Gondor says to Éowyn, a princess of Rohan: I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor…

This a posting from January 30, 2005 that I still find uniquely insightful. Rimshots #17 “Hell” “Hell is a debtor’s prison where all means of payment have disappeared.” William Meisheid Sometimes my mind goes off on tangent while listening to…

There is buried deep in our soul echoes of our former innocence, the desire for God, whether interpreted correctly or not; it includes the faded memory of the eternal purpose of our existence. While many substitute other things for that…

Due to several converging items, our weekend stretched into five days, beginning Thursday with our daughter’s graduation from college and culminating Monday with a picnic celebrating our thirtieth (30) wedding anniversary. In between there was a lot of work, dental…

Many people suffer from synthetic attitudes. This state of mind can come from living in a dichotomy between the image you feel obliged to present to the world and what is your true sense of self. It is like the…