Today is Good Friday. A day when Christians remember Jesus’ death on the cross – the day He paid for our sins with the shedding of His blood (Luke 23). Today is Good Friday. Today I ask you to please go to the Great Prayer Project and sign up to spend 20 minutes today praying for the smallest among us: the unborn. Can you sacrifice 20 minutes to pray on the day we remember when Jesusread more…
(first published on March 21, 2008) When I was a child, Easter was about dying eggs and biting the ears off chocolate bunnies. I knew that a lot of people went to church on Easter, but I did not know why. Good Friday was just a day that banks and other businesses closed for about 3 hours in the afternoon. Fast forward to 1978 and the beginning of my freshman year in college. I had metread more…
Rick Warren (the founder of Saddleback Church and author of the Purpose Driven Life) is making the media rounds hawking his latest “purpose” book about Christmas. (To understand my thoughts on the Purpose Driven movement, you’ll need to read Redefining Christianity: Understanding the Purpose Driven Life Movement). When I heard Warren’s interview this morning, he made the statement that “Jesus wasn’t born just for Christians”. There were several things about that comment that troubled me: Whenread more…
I received today a comment on one of my posts about the Obamas and their frightening views about abortion and infanticide. I didn’t approve the comment because it is too vile. It is unsettling to be faced with such hatred. Here is a portion of the comment: The saddest thing by far about this whole story is that YOUR MOTHER DIDN’T ABORT YOU IN YOUR 39th WEEK, YOU FASCIST SCUM B****! This is a person filledread more…
When I was a child, Easter was about dying eggs and biting the ears off chocolate bunnies. I knew that a lot of people went to church on Easter, but I did not know why. Good Friday was just a day that banks and other businesses closed for about 3 hours in the afternoon. Fast forward to 1978 and the beginning of my freshman year in college. I had met some people from a ministry onread more…
