Entries for February, 2010

Looking to Jesus

Each of the gospels is unique. God did not give us just one story of the life of Christ, although that would have been sufficient. He chose to tell it from four perspectives, through the eyes of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Though they all worked from the same information and through the same medium [...]

Max, Beth, and the Latest Circus Church Craze

Circus church must be wearing thin. After years of crowd-pleasing theatrics to pack the pews, the popcorn has grown stale and the Starbucks has turned cold. Those who grasp history as well as human tendencies could have predicted that the emptiness of Evangelicalism would eventually manifest itself and a new trend would emerge. It was [...]

Judging Others

I don’t make a habit of recommending movies. In far too many movies, very little of godly value is present and worthy of recommending. Laced with profanity, making sensual appeals, promoting intoxication – let not our consciences become dulled to such poor fodder for the spiritual mind! But a recent trip down the family aisle [...]