Nick Gill has agreed to provide some links next week while I’m offline a bit. Here’s some reading for today; no endorsement nor agreement implied.
Although he does not regard himself as an Intelligent Design theorist, Professor Tour, along with over 700 other scientists, took the courageous step back in 2001 of signing the Discovery Institute’s “A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism”, which read: “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.”
When we reduce worship to a weekly consumerist church event of music and speaking we damage two things: First, we replace our mission to the world in God’s service with a mission to ourselves in a church service. Second, we bring all of our expectations of church to the weekly worship service, which have been shaped by our personal musical tastes and preferences, turning it into something it was never intended to be.
Learn to Fly in the Fellowship
It is not only God’s word and prayer that are the means of his ongoing grace, but true fellowship among those who have in common the one who is Grace incarnate (Titus 2:11). The grace of God cannot be quarantined to individuals. The healthy Christian, introverted or not, of whatever temperament, in whatever season, seeks not to minimize relationships with his fellows in Christ, but maximize them.
Is Your Church Too Autonomous?
Honestly, those among us who argue for one “church” with the potential for many gatherings in a single city seem to me to have more biblical examples to which to appeal. Do we really think that each “house church” of the first century (Romans 16:5; 1 Cor. 16:19; Col. 4:15) was organized autonomously?
Then consider the nursery. As the parent of a 4 year old I’m aware of many different parenting approaches just within my white middle class community. Are Hispanic or Asian parents as willing to drop their children off at the nursery as White or African-American parents? Do different racial groups have different behavioural expectations for their children in the nursery? How can these differences be accommodated? How do these differences impact the scheduling and training of nursery volunteers? These cultural distinctions are not limited to racial differences but could also be relevant between urban and suburban families.
What I do each morning is not magic, unique, or a secret known only by a few. The power of this practice is that it is a daily discipline that I usually practice the five days each week.
Why You Need Spiritual Direction
My advice to you is simple: Get a spiritual director. Talk with the most spiritually formed person in your faith community and ask them what they do for faith development. Read Majorie Thompson’s Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life and prepare for your life to change.
Worldwide, Many See Belief in God as Essential to Morality
The survey also finds that publics in richer nations tend to place less emphasis on the need to believe in God to have good values than people in poorer countries do. Two countries, however, stand out as clear exceptions to this pattern: the U.S. and China. Americans are much more likely than their economic counterparts to say belief in God is essential to morality, while the Chinese are much less likely to do so.
Ten Things That Will Really Tick You Off About the Target Data Breach
Last spring, the retail chain installed a $1.6 million threat-prevention system from security firm FireEye, whose other customers include the Pentagon and the CIA. The system worked exactly as it was supposed to, detecting an attack before any Target data was stolen. But when FireEye’s software warned the $73 billion retailer that an attack was under way, Target ignored it.
To Keep Teenagers Alert, Schools Let Them Sleep In
New evidence suggests that later high school starts have widespread benefits. Researchers at the University of Minnesota, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, studied eight high schools in three states before and after they moved to later start times in recent years. In results released Wednesday they found that the later a school’s start time, the better off the students were on many measures, including mental health, car crash rates, attendance and, in some schools, grades and standardized test scores.
LeBron James Tweets Samsung Phone Fail, and Then Deletes It
King James may rule the basketball world, but he’s just as susceptible to Android bugs as the rest of us. Samsung had to have winced when its highly paid spokesman tweeted out the following yesterday to his 12 million followers: “My phone just erased everything it had in it and rebooted. One of the sickest feelings I’ve ever had in my life!!!”
No scientist fully understands how neuro-chemical reactions in our brains translate into consciousness, therefore we do not exist.
No scientist fully understands how gravity works, so gravity does not exist.
Hi Charles. Yeah, you posted the same thing 5 months ago.
If you haven’t, I’d encourage you to read Tour’s original article. You might find it less offensive: http://www.jmtour.com/personal-topics/the-scientist-and-his-“theory”-and-the-christian-creationist-and-his-“science”/