Am I really a fundamentalist?

I don’t do a word for word literal interpretation of the Bible. I do believe in Jesus dying for my sins and rising on the third day to give me a new life. I do believe, that life begins at conception, not because its in the bible (because it’s not), but because as a scientist [...]

Christianity is totally hijacked

Now that the Republican party has hijacked what being a Christian is, and with stories like this, I predict that despite the Christians in the Democratic party, that there will be larger backlashes that what we have seen for people of faith.

My news consumption

I admit it. I’m a news junkie. I sometimes drive Mary crazy with the news things that I listen to. I have never lost the thought on how, I would sit with Dad and watch the news. In a way, it is part of who I am because some of my early conversations with my [...]

More stuff from Mary’s Trip to Nigeria

Embedded Video This just popped into my browser today. Luke Chaffee, who was on the mission trip to Africa with Mary, just released some new video on his YouTube site. Blogged with the Flock Browser

Hearing God…an explanation

Here is a remark I made yesterday on Twitter:  Second time today that God has said don’t look at your feet while listening to a sermon. Where upon my brother-in-law responded: Without context, may I gently point out just how crazy this makes you sound? – Brendon I agree it sounds quite weird. However, after [...]

Lip Balm

I had these two college roommates when I was a sophomore at Grand Valley State. When the three of us were running around together, we called ourselves the “Three Amigos.”  This was a classic clip that was hilarious to us. I found this on Hulu.com:

Showing mercy…with Rock Band?

I was listening to Brian Zahnd at the Word of Life church podcast from a couple of weeks ago and he was doing a series about showing mercy. Pastor Brian had pointed out any interesting thing, that the Pharisees said to get your act cleaned up and then come to the table to eat.However, Jesus [...]

A cool song for the Youth worker

I saw this as a video that a church is using to set up their mission trip to the Dominican Republic, but it has some great thoughts on outreach and youth ministry. Brandon Heath – Give Me Your Eyes from Brandon Heath on Vimeo. Blogged with the Flock Browser

A youth worker conference

I like youth worker conferences and conventions. I have been following the NYWC that YS puts on each year. I would love to go back to one. Well, Group publishing and SYM have teamed to put together a conference in Columbus, OH. It sounds like NYWC but on a somewhat smaller scale. It would be [...]

Help Thousand Foot Krutch Win- Taco Bell’s Best of the Beat!

Taco Bell is doing a battle of the indy bands on their site. I was quite surprised to see so many Christian bands on the list. However, I’m not surprised to see One of my favorite bands in the mix. From TFK’s MySpace blog: Thousand Foot Krutch needs you help to show their stuff.  Head [...]

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