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A Better Question is: Why Do Any of Us Stay in Church?

Sometimes I ask myself, “why are you still in church?”
The best answer I can come up with is:
1) I have low expectations of official Church institutions.
2) I’m obsessed with the idea of a contagious body of Christ that changes the world.

What We Talk Like When We Talk About God

Of course most of us prefer to worship at the First Church of Hanging Out With My Friends at The Coffee Shop. Of course the more elite of us prefer to worship at My Own Speaking Engagements Community Church. Because, we believe, we “learn better” when we’re the ones doing the talking.
But something happens when you stop submitting to the communal listening of congregational worship and start filling the air with your own free range spiritual rhetoric. Your talk of God starts to sound less like God. He starts sounding like an idea, a theory, a concept. He stops sounding like the God of the Bible, the God who commands and demands, the God who is love but also holy, gracious but also just, et cetera. He begins to sound less like the God “who is who he is” and more like the God who is as you like him.

Biblical Womanhood for Pariahs

I am thinking today that Biblical womanhood is best understood when we understand it in our worst case scenarios. When we boil it down to what God most wants any of us to reflect about Himself regardless of the adjective in front of “woman” and then expand that back out to the specific circumstances in which we find ourselves, we are much better equipped to endure the waves of life that come at us at each stage as a woman after God’s own heart.

1 in 4 Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun

Just 74 percent of respondents knew that the Earth revolved around the Sun, according to the results released at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.

Police say tracks in snow led them straight to alleged burglar

Police responding to a burglar alarm at a seafood business in northwest Atlanta found the impressions of shoe prints and tire tracks in the snow, said department spokesman Officer John Chafee.
They followed the tracks about a mile to the home of Kenneth Ray Evans, where they found a generator and air compressor — and Evans asleep on the sofa.