a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
Mike DeVries posted this… I can’t believe this is a real church sign. Please tell me it’s fake, for the love of God, please!!!!! Aren’t Baptist’s calvinists? Is there really any such thing as a “free” thinker? Weren’t they destined to think what they do?
Reading the LA Times yesterday, One of the articles on the front page caught my eye. The title was something like, “Preparing Politician’s for God’s Work” or something like that. I don’t really remember the title, but the content was all about special training programs for evangelicals to be groomed for politics. From what I [...]
Having been a youth pastor, I can relate to this post. There’s always the pressure to be cool, but then at the same time there’s pressure to try to connect kids who want nothing to do with regular church in to the church community. Since I didn’t even like “regular church” all that much myself, [...]
Racical Congruency shouts out my feelings on faith and politics… I couldn’t agree more. link
This was on the BlogShares site when it was down for DB optimization. Thought it was funny enough to share.
The truth of the conditions of what many of our products are made under boggle the mind. Truthfully, I understand the argument that all companies are bad at some level, so why worry about it. But I don’t agree. When we realize what a company is doing, our actions can cause them to change (at [...]
If anyone can confirm this, that would be great. I’ve heard from several sources that some cell phone companies are offering a service where you can block numbers… not numbers coming in, but keep you from calling numbers. And I’ve heard this service can be turned on for an evening… so theoretically, it should be [...]
Another one that kind of irritates the crap out of me, but at least I find some humor laughing at people who will take enough time and energy to complain about people “stealing” (what a joke) their wi-fi when they are too lazy to simply encrypt their signal. If it ever becomes law that using [...]
Out of sight, out of mind. I confess that’s been my thoughts on congress lately. I knew the second version of the Patriot Act passed, but there was so little press on it, I allowed it to not bother me. Now I’m pretty pissed off. At myself, mostly. Yeah I posted a couple of times [...]
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice. — C. Baudelaire