Reconciling the beatitudes with being American

I was reading in Luke 6 this morning. After Jesus pronounces His ‘blesseds’, He pronounces His ‘woes’:
24(AS) “But woe to you who are rich,(AT) for you(AU) have received your consolation.
25“Woe to you who are full now, for(AV) you shall be hungry.
“Woe to(AW) you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.”
And I asked myself, [...]

Huge Opportunity

A lot of folks don’t realize that I actually have two sisters. One is a little younger than me and lives nearby, but the other is 5 years older than me, and lives in Apple Valley, California. And she has one heck of a story.
I won’t put the whole thing here, because you’ll never get [...]

Interesting post about Joel Osteen

Have a look here.
What do you think?

Best eternal investment opps

This weekend at church, I taught about how we are free to serve Jesus because we don’t have to.
…yeah, just take a second and think about that. My texts were Galatians 5 and 1 Peter 2.
I got on a social justice soap-box for just a minute.
According to Compassion International, 19 billion dollars a year could [...]

Please Pray For Jack

Hey folks,
I just received this email from a leader in our church. Please don’t get distracted by how long it looks. It took me 2 minutes to read it.
Please stop and take 5 minutes to lift this guy up in prayer:

I sold land to someone names Jack Rafac. His wife is Delores. He’s lived a [...]

so far, pt. 1

*I usually don’t have time to write anything very meaningful, and I want to force myself to, because I think it’s a really healthy exercise, so this is part one of what I think will probably be a lengthy series of posts. The title is ’so far’, because with every day I live, I see [...]

everybody loses everything on earth — someday

That’s a quote from Piper in his sermon “Where Is God“, which is a response to catastrophic occurrences like 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina.
Piper is the pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minnesota. They are so close to the bridge that collapsed that you can see the lights of rescue crews from the church.
They sent their [...]

PB&J Campaign

What do you think: http://itotd.com/articles/642/the-pb&j-campaign/

Wanna help African Pastors?

Desiring God has some info about how you can put good theology in the hands of those who teach the Church in Africa:
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/732/

This is why I want to work at DG