Posts Tagged ‘Christianity’
This morning we found a burned cd in our office. We had no idea how it got there, but I popped it into my lappy to see what it was. It turned out to be “The Cream of Clapton”, which was a delightful surprise to me. My boss told me that I could keep it [...]
Skinny review: Worth the read, answers problems within pop atheism and combative Christianity.
In late February, Ed tweeted about having some books available for bloggers to review. I had him send me Becky Garrison’s “The New Atheist Crusaders and Thier Unholy Grail: The Misguided Quest to Destroy Your Faith.” The point was for me was to [...]
Our posture to the world needs to be one of hands raised in support, open, steady, and supported by the fear and love of God. All too often we start with open, supportive, weak-yet-empowered hands that influence out world and fellow humans towards love, justice, peace, and godliness–only to later close our fists to grasp [...]
I forgot to do the Giving Highlight last month. I chose another micro-finance related organization to give to. I really like this concept. Before I tell you about Five Talents, I should give an update on the loans I made through Kiva a few months ago. All of the loans have gone into repayment, which [...]
I have a pet peeve against things that define themselves or other things by what they are not. It used to be a somewhat popular writing style to begin with “3(5, 7, 10) things that _____ is not” and taking forever to get to what actually needed to be said. I understand the need for [...]
A group of leaders within the Evangelical movement released an Evangelical Manifesto today, declaring and defining to the world who Evangelicals are. A friend of mine commented that its funny that “the humanists only took like 5 years to write a manifesto while Evangelicals waited 70.”
It is an interesting read. My observation is that the explanations given [...]
I found this on PreachingToday.com’s Series about money. There is more research out there suggesting similar conclusions. We should tithe out of both obedience and love.
Tithing Christians Would Meet Global Need
A husband and wife team of researchers, the founders of Empty Tomb, Inc., in Champaign, Illinois, have tracked American and American Christian expenditures as well [...]
