At the beginning of the week I wrote something about sensing an increasing amount of doom-saying. It's official. Christianity is on the wane in America (read here) Evangelicalism is on the wane. (read here) Catholicism is being persecuted. (the last post) People are worried about civil unrest. Alan ...

What does the word community mean to you? I don’t mean the dictionary definition, but rather what images, beliefs, and feelings does the word connote for you when you hear it spoken or see it on the page? I ask because I was surprised at how many negatives I had associated with the use of it. ...

Mark and Kay Update March 4, 2009 http://www.markandkay.com Greetings in the Name of Jesus! What an amazing weekend we just had with our CarePoint youth leaders – all 35 of them! The theme was all about encountering God, and that’s what we all did – in a real and impacting way. Each of the you...

Funny post by Joe Blackmon at Hear God Speak-Bible Commentary. Funny, but basically true! RECALL NOTICE The Maker of all human beings is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of make or year, due to a serious defect in the primary and central component of the heart.This is due to a malfunctio...

More Lenten reflections from Catherine Larson out of James 4:17 at Breakpoint. Some of us are better than others at “avoiding the wrong things” but how do we measure up in “doing the right things”?   I didn’t say express those hurtful words last week to my sister but ...

Note: This is Part 1 of a Six-Part Lenten Sermon Series on the Subject: "Questions about Jesus that they don't want answered." Keep posted for the remainder of the series. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Today with Ash Wednesday we begin the solemn season of ...

As He did with each of the previous six churches, Jesus asserted His knowledge of the congregation’s condition, then leveled the following formal charge against the Laodiceans. I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are luk...

Happy Ash Wednesday to all of you....Er, can you say "happy" Ash Wednesday? Per an earlier post, can you speak of a "good" Lent? Isn't it all about sadness and mourning and denial and repentance and ashes? Well, no. We should (should, should, should) repent of our sins daily. Hourly, really. Sheddin...

Yesterday I suggested that things are not good and that if Jesus visited us today, He might confront us much like He confronted the Laodicean church in Revelation 3:14-22. Exiled on Patmos island for preaching the gospel, the apostle John wrote the book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ from a ...

Things are not good. Nations are at war, babies are being aborted, businesses are collapsing, and people are sad, lonely, and empty. Yet it would be difficult to prove those realities based on how we’re acting. We’re still making jokes, buying lattes and Big Macs, renting movies and down...