Distractions
I have a confession to make. Recently my morning “computer routine” has been cutting into my daily time with God. A few minutes to check email and Facebook before sitting down with my Bible and prayer journal turned into more than a few minutes.
Checking email led to responding to email. Checking Facebook messages led to [...]
Evaluating 2009
Right now is a good time for personal reflection as this year – and this decade – draws to a close. Did you meet your goals for work, health, finances and relationships for 2009? Like me, you probably met some and fell short of others.
What about your spiritual goals? Did you have any spiritual goals? [...]
Church Mart, Part 2
From church hopping and shopping to razzle dazzle entertainment and marketing gimmicks, a consumer mentality has infiltrated Christianity. (If you missed Church Mart, Part One read it here.) Does this attitude hurt our faith and the church or is it a needed adaptation to our culture?
Church Mart
The biggest shopping day of the year is almost here. On “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving, people turn out in droves to begin their Christmas shopping and take advantage of all the bargains offered by the stores. My daughters and I – and sometimes others who have joined us for the holiday – spend [...]
Resistance is not futile
If you are a Trekkie you will recognize this traditional Borg greeting: “We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.” Believe it or not, I thought about the Borg and their “mission” during a Bible discussion group last night in the [...]
All Bow Down
There is a Facebook group entitled “The Anointed Michael Followers.” In order to join you have to agree to this statement: “Michael Jackson is the Messiah.” I know this is extreme, but it’s a symptom of a wide spread problem.
It happened again Sunday morning. It’s happened to me several times before. Right in the middle [...]
Would you leave spinach in your teeth?
It’s happened to me a hundred times. Sometime after lunch, a glance in the mirror revealed I’d been walking around the office for hours with something stuck between my front teeth. Usually, it’s green. Possibly spinach, if I ate a healthy meal. And of course, I fished it out immediately.
Like cleaning my teeth when a [...]
Did the Devil Make You do it?
“The DEVIL made me do it!” was an oft-heard expression coined by comedian Flip Wilson’s character Geraldine. If you’re much younger than I am you may not remember the The Flip Wilson Show, a popular, television comedy of the early 1970s. But I can still see “Geraldine” toss her hair with her hands on her [...]
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