Christianity
Letter from Jesus
Taken from Vibrance!:
Dear Child,
It has come to my attention that many of you are upset that people are attempting to take My name out of the Christmas season.
How I feel about this celebration may be best-understood by those of you who have been blessed with children of your own:
I don’t care what you call the [...]
“Group threatens to sue schools that use Elmbrook Church for commencements”
UPDATE: Tim points out in the comments:
In addition, at past graduations, the church displayed banners reading “Leading Children to a Transforming Life in Jesus” and “Lord of Lords,” and church personnel distributed religious pamphlets and other materials to graduating [public school] students and their families.
That would seem a bit more of an issue, don’t you [...]
Quote of the Day 02/06/2009
Michael Gerson in “The Real Scandal of Religion” at Townhall.com
When religion is infected by racism, ideology or extreme nationalism, it can become a carrier of hatred instead of conscience.
I can only say, “Amen.”
One more Christmas post
Oh, no, I’m not done yet!
I’ll post two songs I got reacquainted with over the weekend by Kirk Talley.
I Can Still Celebrate Christmas
The lights are unplugged
The candles snuffed out
The tree’s lying out in the street
The mistletoe’s gone
But the memory lives on
Like the rush of tiny little feet
The hustle, the bustle
The long, long, long checkout lines
Won’t [...]
More on Mary, the mother of Jesus
Lance Burri posting at FoxPolitics.net made an interesting comparison between Sarah Connors and Mary and Joseph.
It reminded me of a couple of items by pastor and author Max Lucado from “It Began in a Manger.” The first is 25 questions for Mary. The other is Mary’s Prayer.
And then I’ll share a song from the musical [...]
Quick Hits
Emptying out my drafts folder:
Top 9 Good Habits For A Deep Recession – These are good habits when there’s no recession.
From the Pew Research Center, The Religious Makeup of Congress – a nice graphical representation of the religious beliefs of the Congress compared with the American public as a whole.
By the director of new media [...]
Mary, the mother of God
As a Protestant, I don’t worship Mary or pray to her. I do not believe she was a perpetual virgin, though she was a virgin when Jesus was born, nor do I believe in the Immaculate Conception.
But that doesn’t mean I hold her in low regard. No, she was quite a young woman.
They married young [...]
Turning the Bible on its Head
Or at least trying to. In Newsweek’s latest edition, a Lisa Miller attempts to make a religious case for gay marriage.
I don’t have time to fisk this whole article, so I’ll let Dr. Albert Mohler do it for me.
If homosexuals want to make a case based on freedom and equality, they will find a sympathetic [...]
“The Wall of Separation”
Daniel L. Dreisbach, professor of justice, law, and society at American University and author of Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State, wrote recently at a sub-site of Christianity Today about the history of Jefferson’s famous wall of separation remark. It’s broken up into two parts which you can find here [...]
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