Today is Spread the Word to End the Word day, an annual day of awareness to help folks understand that using the R-word (retard) as an insult is just as offensive as a racial slur. So we need to stop using it. Let’s face it: A lot of people use the word and don’t think […]
Harold Camping has predicted that Christ will return on Saturday, May 21, 2011 and – because that’s just not BIG enough, I suppose – there will be massive earthquakes around the world! That’s right, he’s predicting a doubleheader: the Rapture and Judgment Day all rolled into one – a veritable Doomsday Extravaganza.
In my youth, I recall seeing a banner stretched across the back of the sanctuary of an old country church, directly over the exit, which warned (usually in big, bold, red letters!) that: “You are now entering the Mission Field!!” For the vast majority of Appalachian Protestant fundamentalists and charismatics, when you mentioned the mission […]
I’m serious. Christians are called to be like Christ Jesus, to walk in His steps. I wonder if we’re not imitating the Gentle Shepherds and Caucasian Jesus portraits we’re all familiar with rather than the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus we’re taught about in Sunday School doesn’t have much in common with the one […]
In my youth, I recall seeing a banner stretched across the back of the sanctuary of an old country church, directly over the exit, which warned (usually in big, bold, red letters!) that: “You are now entering the Mission Field!!” For the vast majority of Appalachian Protestant fundamentalists and charismatics, when you mentioned the mission […]
