I read somewhere, I wish I remember where, that asked a poignant question: When we go to heaven and have all the blessings of what we usually think heaven is – all the food we want, reunion with friends and family, streets of gold, no war, no pain, no tears…and Jesus wasn’t there, would we be happy?
Year: 2011
From Sean McDowell:
Many kids leave the church because they never built healthy relationships with their parents or other Christian adults. If we want to teach the biblical worldview effectively, we must first help kids get emotionally healthy.
This is why I deeply believe in mentoring. Jesus was a mentor. My hope is that mentoring…
I just finished reading An Amish Wedding by Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller, and Kelly Long. It was an easy read and an entertaining fiction, good for a heartwarming distraction, especially on a rainy day.
Three short stories set in an Amish community, the book tells the sweet stories of three couples. Along with the romance and conflict, there were lessons of faith woven throughout.
There’s a shoe repair shop in our little city of 30,000. How many people would need their shoes repaired?
I went in there to have my $40 pair of shoes repaired. The cost of repairing the sole is $16. It’s hardly worth it for me, and hardly worth it for him. It made me wish my shoes were more expensive to have the repair even make sense. But I decided to have it done any way.
“Lady, can you spare a quarter?”
I said no and turned away. Then I felt a pang of guilt -what if she just had some bad luck and need a helping hand?
Not so. 10 min. later the same lady was in line in front of me at the market, paying for a bottle of cheap wine with $2.50 in quarters.
Changing the carpet today ushers in a new stage of life for us.
Gone are the stains, left by three dogs who were our companions and security system. No more chewed up carpet corners, reminiscence of our first pet bunny Smokey. Spills and grime of children’s play are no more.
Some people look at their past with fond memories and like to relish in those remembrances. But I am not one of those.
While I am generally not a glass-half-empty type of person nor am I a perfectionist, but for some reason, I tend to think of my past with regret. I wish I had…
From “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism–the New American Religion” By R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Christian Post Columnist
…religious beliefs held by American teenagers, they found that the faith held and described by most adolescents came down to something the researchers identified as “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.”
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism consists of beliefs like these: 1. “A god exists…
I was very disappointed with this book. The material in this book could be covered in half the number of pages. Not only was it drawn out, the concepts in the book were not “deep”.
Going Deep by Gordon MacDonald is a story of fictional church implementing a supposedly new and innovative idea of Cultivating…
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I unexpectedly saw a long time friend at Soupplantation today. We were both waiting for our lunch partners so it was a perfect opportunity to catch up.
To be honest, she is merely an acquaintance, and we barely recognized each other, but our conversation was so encouraging to me.