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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

As promised here are the 2 pastoral definitions that I shared at the conclusion of my talk last Saturday night:
Abiding is the disposition of a life that is nourished, sustained, and strengthened by the true …

From my Life Journal last week…
SCRIPTURE:

Psalm 59.9-10: O my Strength, I will watch for you, for you, O God, are my fortress. 10 My God in his steadfast love will meet me…
OBSERVATION:
David praises God that …

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 …

From Tim Ellmore (www.growingleaders.com)…
Several months ago, we hosted another focus group of students (ages 16-24) and asked them: What are your preferred methods of communication? We thought it was a good question. After all, we’re …

1 Corinthians 2.8: None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 
Paul endeavors to disengage the gospel and the centrality of the …

From the Global Language Monitor…
The Television Buzzwords are nominated by GLM’s Language Police, volunteer language observers scattered the world over.  The words are then run through the Predictive Quantities Indicator (PQI}, the proprietary algorithm that …

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 …

On Thursday, October 11, The Ethics and Public Policy Center sponsored a debate with Christopher Hitchens and Alistair McGrath entitled: Poison or Cure? Religious Belief In the Modern World. Christopher Hitchens has ignited a strong …

 
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 …

THE BELOIT COLLEGE MINDSET LIST FOR THE CLASS OF 2011 
Most of the students entering college this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, …

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 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 …

This video has been circulating for awhile… referred to it in a conversation today and thought I would post it. “Beauty” can be an oppressing and demeaning tyrant in our culture… Dove has created a …

This commercial will air in England during the popular show, “Big Brother,” this fall…