Johnny Cash

Check out this short video from Mars Hill Church in Seattle.  I was lead to it by one of my frequent stops at Between Two Worlds blog.   It’s a short bio on Johnny cash and it narrates how he was freed from his long time struggle with drugs by the power of God.  What [...]

Try this on

The BBC posted this quiz today done by the Bible Society.  They made a note that fewer and fewer students are recognizing Bible references in Classic English Literature.  But the more ironic and sadder commentary is that Christians are finding it increasingly difficult to recognize Bible references in literature.
Try the Quiz

Anarchy is like speed-dating

“Anarchism is all about unity. It’s about bringing people together. Isn’t that what speed-dating does?”
You can’t make this stuff up.  I remember questioning a young student in Portland who was a part of the “Anarchist Student Club” about the validity of a bunch of anarchist who organize together.  Might as well tell the Christians to [...]

Time for a Reset

from Douglas Wilson’s Blog and Mablog
“Christopher Dawson once said that the Christian church lives in the light of eternity, and can afford to be patient. In a nation filled with men and women pursuing the gods of envy, mammon, malice, bloodshed and theft, this is important for us to remember. They are all caught up [...]

24 things likely to disappear

in America (check out this link for more Crunchy Con)
Yellow Pages
Classified Ads
Dial up Internet (hooray, the horrors of waiting for a page to load)
Ash Trees
The Swimming Hole (aka the public pool, must be a Yankee, because a swimming hole is found in a creek)
Wild Horses
Honey Bees
Family Farm

From one to another

Dearly Beloved, we mourn the death of a faithful companion.  Bye, bye to Trey’s “bike” which was given to him on his first birthday by N & H in Portland.  It made it just over a year.  I, J., confess that it was on my watch that the “bike” saw its end.  Of course, directly [...]

The Way of the Fool

There is a divine irony in the case of abortion.  God saw it fit to express his condemnation by way of foolishness.  That foolishness is first in the blatant hypocrisy of abortion.  What full grown human would stand and condemn their own birth?  No man or woman would stand at the conception in their own [...]