I have decided to take a break from blogging… which probably comes as no surprise since it has been months since I made my last entry. I will keep the site up– complete with archived …
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The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching. John Wooden said that, or maybe it was Spider-Man. Whatever, it still holds true; being noble and upstanding is easy enough when you’ve got people watching, but when you’re alone with yourself, when you could do the wrong thing (or avoid the right thing) and get away with it, well — that’s when you find out what kind of person you are.
Okay, I admit it… I have had a life-long fetish about Bibles (translations, translation theory, and production) and Study Bibles (layout, design, and content)… call me bizarre, eccentric, bookish, weird, strange, or irregular– I can handle …
Now that the elections are over it is time to get ready for the next crisis facing our country… converting your tv from an analog signal to a digital one! This PSA might help!
This is a letter on Proposition 8 I wrote to the church I pastor…
“… that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, …
Your vote counts and so does every coffee cup and halloween mask you purchase…
Here’s an interesting campaign poll courtesy of 7-Eleven! Be sure to check out the fun facts!
another shopping poll… this time masks courtesy …
This month, almost 2 million first-year students will head off to college campuses around the country. Most of them will be about 18 years old, born in 1990 when headlines sounded oddly familiar to those …
Questions I find myself asking about our candidates and my faith. These questions are not in any order of priority…
Why do our presidential candidates use half-truths and distortions to incite fear, mistrust, and anger? Is …
An interesting video from the Think Again campaign from The Atlantic… interesting collection of responses!
Are you tired of the all the campaign spin? FactCheck is one of the best sites I know where we can attempt to separate truth from fiction, spin from substance, in hope of cutting through …
So this year with Easter coming so early, I have been asked time and again… sometimes with an aggravated tone of one inconvenienced: “Why is Easter so early this year?” Well follow this link and …
A friend (Scott Case) emailed me this link today… this is cute! A take-off on the Frank Capra classic, “It’s A Wonderful Life.”
Last Sunday, began a new series at Faith where we are going to study the life of Jesus by exclusively looking at the Gospels… so I wanted to answer the question: Why study the gospels? … since there were 12 apostles I thought I would come up with 12 reasons– I know it’s not the 3 point sermon we are suppose to follow but then Jesus never preached a 3 point sermon either!
Now for something completely different… what side of the brain you use?
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic… detail oriented… facts rule… words and language… present and past… math and science… can comprehend… knowing
acknowledges… order/pattern perception… knows object …
LONDON (AP) — University of Oxford researchers will spend nearly $4 million to study why mankind embraces God. The grant to the Ian Ramsey Center for Science and Religion will bring anthropologists, theologians, philosophers and …
Last Sunday as part of our series on spirituality we discussed this theme: Sabbath: Where Time and Spirituality Meet.
This entry is a rough outline on the significance of the Sabbath from the point of view …
this recommendation came from Beckey in our office @ Faith Community!
This is very creative….
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world thct we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but …
Romans 12.2: And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable …
“You also must help us by prayer… For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely …
There are many recipes for the destruction of a nation. Yet each shares a single ingredient— the repudiation of the uniqueness, the authority, the supremacy, and the clarity of God’s revelation through the Scriptures. The …
Scott Sabin, Executive Director of Floresta, had this article appear in the San Diego Union Tribune… click here to read!
Floresta is a environmental relief organization based out of San Diego that heals the land and its people. I have been privileged to serve on the Board and know first hand the transformation Floresta is …
Acts 4:24: When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God..
Prayer is a powerful word. Mention it in a room full of Christians and watch the tone of the conversation become …
[This came via a friend-- Rick Moncauskas]
Highly technical presentation of new technology by Rockwell Automation Systems.
(Behind the announcer is simply a bank of large circuit breaker panels. You can find these in any large building. …
This was passed on to me from Steve Harvey’s Only In LA, from the LA Times (June 12)… A new biography on L.A. evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson by
For we are… God’s building… like living stones being built into a house.” (1 Corinthians 3:9; 1Peter 1.5)
Followers of Jesus Christ do not go to church. Followers of Jesus Christ are the Church. God’s building …
Okay, I admit it… I have had a life-long fetish about Bibles (translations, translation theory, and production) and Study Bibles (layout, design, and content)… call me bizarre, eccentric, bookish, weird, strange, or irregular– I can handle …
The movie, Amazing Grace, is the story of William Wilberforce’s leadership, faith, tenacity, and fortitude that abolished the slave trade throughout the British empire in 1807. He continued to labor to emancipate slaves throughout the …
Now that the elections are over it is time to get ready for the next crisis facing our country… converting your tv from an analog signal to a digital one! This PSA might help!
J.P. Hayes is as honest as we like to think we are
By Jay Busbee
The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching. John Wooden said that, or maybe …
Now that the elections are over it is time to get ready for the next crisis facing our country… converting your tv from an analog signal to a digital one! This PSA might help!
