My younger brother Darian is spear-heading a project to raise scholarship money to help Canadian youth workers get to the Canadian Youth Workers Conference this fall. He doesn’t need money he just needs votes. Show some love and vote.
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Monthly Archives March 2007
Difference Between Heaven and Hell
Hell = eternity in the presence of GodHeaven = eternity in the presence of God with a Mediator
The Internet Archive
Check out The Internet Archive. Nothing ever goes away on the internet. You’ve got to see the Wayback Machine to believe it.
(HT: Josh Harris)
The $64,000 Question
I have been really enjoying Ed Gilbreath’s Reconciliation Blog and encourage you to check it out. He recently posted this question and the discussion has been excellent:
Why should we pursue racial reconciliation? Why would we be
better off with a more diverse congregation or ministry staff,
especially if things are humming along pretty well the way they are
now? [...]
Friday Photos
The first set of photos are from last Sunday before church. The kids posed for a second then went wild dancing. The second photo is from the other night. We had kid watching duty for our weekly date night and we played outside. Samuel flipped the slide updside down and had a blast climbing on [...]
The Four Feathers
The other week our friends Abraham & Molly spent the night as they were flying out of Charlotte the next morning for Minneapolis. We had a good time catching up and talking about life and children and good movies. They recommended The Four Feathers and we watched it this past weekend.
The Four Feathers captures [...]
The Cross and Criticism
This article by rapper Curtis Allen has been circulating the blog and is a great example of humility in the face of criticism. In it Allen mentions this article by Alfred Poirier that is available here on the Peacemaker website. It is a great article that puts criticism in the right perspective - namely, in [...]
Victim or Sinner?
One of the greatest challenges in pastoral ministry, counseling, discipleship, or simply loving our neighbor is how to understand the relationship between our past experiences and our present behaviors and beliefs.
For example, how do you respond and help a friend who has experienced great sin done against them and their life is now marked with [...]
The Myth of Moral Neutrality
Greg Koukl comments on the uproar surrounding Gen. Peter Pace’s moral comments about homosexuality this week.
“This reflects one of the most entrenched assumptions of moral relativism in our society today: that there is such a thing as morally neutral ground, a place of complete impartiality where no judgments nor any forcing of personal views are [...]
Friday Photos
My Flickr | Friday PhotoOn my way home from work I pass by this great old house with a barn in the backyard. The other day I finally stopped and took some photos. The stop sign was laying in the barn and the engine block (I think that is what it is) was laying out [...]