persecution = preservation for the Christian

I might as well publish these thoughts while I’m here meditating on God’s Word.  Micah has stirred me up to continuing this process by reminding me of salts preservative quality.  This has led me to think about faith, grace, and testing through persecution as having preserving effects as well.  Not only for the believer but [...]

radical faith = salt and light?

As I have been thinking about radical faith in the face of suffering and persecution I have noticed a pattern in scripture before that I had never before noticed or had called to my attention. I’ll lay my deductions out there and any who read this can decide for themselves whether it is true or [...]

What a Wonderful World

I love this song and this video is sure to put a smile on your face.

self defense and radical faith

We hear about it more and more as the days go by.  Islamic fundamentalist radicals that offer up their own lives to take the lives of others; especially Americans, Christians and Jews.  As a Christian who lives in America I saw these radicals as a threat to my way of life and the comfort I [...]

Beowulf and Jesus

I haven’t been writing on my blog at all for a while due to a very busy schedule but since I have a few spare moments I would like to share some reflections I had during some movie time spent with my sweet wife last night.  We watched the movie Beowulf together and as usual [...]

Vintage Jesus

It has finally arrived!  The pdf copy of Mark Driscoll’s new book Vintage Jesus just popped up into my e-mail box and I began reading it today.  I have downloaded it and decided to peek at it only to discover that I may finish reading it before the hard copy arrives.  Honestly, it is much [...]

recurring thoughts on being a reformissionary inspired by Mark Driscoll

Everyone should know what a missionary is … there is a relatively new (at least in the modern church) idea that everyone is a missionary in the culture around us. Paul demonstrated this through his preaching and we have gotten so far away from this that we have become irrelevant in the culture today. This [...]

laughter is like good medicine

laughter is like good medicine It sure is good to have a relationship with the Almighty creator of all things, including laughter I wonder if Jesus laughed when he told the Pharisees to take the log out of their eye [close your eyes and picture that] or the blind leading the blind and them both [...]

Ron Paul: on top on the net, moving up on the tube?

Riding a wave of rising interest in constitutional practices in government (imagine that!), Ron Paul has passed 30,000 youtube subscribers, and their campaign has issued a press release today regarding their success  on a similar note, I regret to say that I missed the GOP dibate to day and I wanted to see Ron mop [...]