Why I’m not spooked by Halloween

I just can’t get all that excited about how bad Halloween is for Christians. Some churches really freak over this one. It is understandable and a case can be made for it. But I remain unmoved.

This is going to be a different Thanksgiving but it had better be the same Christmas

It has been seven years since our oldest son, Jon, has been home for Thanksgiving. When he was attending the Colorado School of Mines in Colorado it was too expensive to fly him home for Thanksgiving and then turn right around and fly him back home again for Christmas.  And now that he is in graduate school at the U of Chicago and paying his own way through life, it is still a bit expensive to fly home for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

It’s Sunday Morning

     In my next life I’m not working weekends!!! But for now weekend are a pretty big deal for me. On Sundays we gather as a community before our God and see what happens.  Yes, there is thinking and planning and praying that go on into the gathering, but don’t expect to read what God is going to do in the bulletin. It doesn’t work like that. 

50 Potential Christian Bestsellers

1. Your Best Life Now Book of Martyrs
2. I’m Totally Depraved, You’re Totally Depraved
3. 40 or so Days more-or-less of Purpose
4. Bowel Thou Art Loosed – A Christian Guide to Regularity
5. Good Morning Holy Mackerel – Spirit Filled Sport Fishing With Benny Hinn

What is an Evangelical anyway?

Yes, Christians seem to come in categories. There are Roman Catholic Christians, Orthodox Christians and Protestant Christians. And if you think that three isn’t enough, just think about how many kinds of Protestant Christians there are…