Articles from other websites, provided not as endorsed material but as thought-provoking reading…
Why I Miss Being A Born-Again Christian
Socially, I sometimes miss Christianity. Intellectually, I’m OK being rid of it. Spiritually? To be honest, in a tiny crack in my soul, I’m still figuring that out.
What Are We Teaching Our Daughters?
The Lord doesn’t require His daughters to braid bread and arrange flowers. For women who want to, those things are gifts. And while we should have skillful hands and strong arms (Prov. 31), what God does require is that we do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with Him (Micah 6:8). That is a teaching that can, by grace, bear eternal fruit in a daughter’s life.
How I Learned The Power of a New Pair of Shoes
It was literally a call to action to remove whatever pair we had on our feet right then and there and drop them into a box at the back of the auditorium.I thought to myself, “You have got to be kidding me. This is a joke, right? I just spent $150 this morning on a pair of sandals.”
More on “The Plight” from Wright
I say all this just to note that N. T. Wright in Paul and the Faithfulness of God does a very nice job of demonstrating what Paul saw as “the plight.” It wasn’t just that humans needed righteousness. In fact, the problem went beyond humans. It was cosmic in scope, including the entire creation.
You don’t go to church to worship or to hear a sermon. You go to church to celebrate the Lord’s Supper. You go to church to remember The Story. You go to church to ritually reenact the story, to step into it, participate in it, make it your own. This is your Passover meal. You go to church to remind each other, this is his body. This is his blood. Broken and poured out. For you.
The prosperity gospel has not produced a new generation of great Christian hymns. Neither have Positive Thinking or Progressive Christianity. There is a reason we would not expect them to. The fact is, the deepest songs come from the deepest truth. The most faithful songs come from the most faithful expressions of the Christian faith. The richest songs come from the richest understanding of who God is and what God has done.
Boy, you got a prayer in … the drive-thru lane
As a journalist who once wrote a national Associated Press story on 1-800 prayer lines, I found the headline intriguing. Honestly, though, I expected to find “shallow” and “cheesy” on this story’s menu. Instead, the Philadelphia Inquirer treated the subject in a thoughtful, meaty — and yet still interesting — way
Cuba Embargo Under Pressure as Obama Urged to Ease It
A political consensus against trade with communist Cuba that has prevailed in Washington for half a century is showing signs of cracking.
As the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s biggest business lobby, visits the Caribbean island this week, support is growing for an easing of trade restrictions and an increase in academic and cultural exchanges.
Caught in the act: Groundhog is culprit in destruction of flags at upstate New York cemetery
A sheriff’s deputy investigating reports of vandalized flags at an upstate New York cemetery has caught the culprit in the act.
It was a groundhog.