Last Sunday I taught that Jesus is both willing and able to fix our broken world. If you want more study on the subject, check out “A Brief Primer on the Problem of Evil.” While all three explanations for evil have their place, I think most of the biblical writings deal with the author’s second defense (though it needs more explanation that he provided).
Not only is Austin ranked the best place for business; it's also ranked #3 in Forbes’ top cities for volunteering (story here; slide show here). Estimated percentage of the metro area population that volunteers annually: 38.1%
C’mon, you young married couples! Don’t be such slackers! Follow the lead of this couple and build the Hillcrest nursery!
Convert your golf swing to music and improve your game. (Music and golf: that’s “Gene Chappell heaven”!) But it still won’t help you hit like this.
“This was a ‘God is real’ event,” said the sister of a teenager who walked away from a six-story fall. But don’t tell Christopher Hitchens.
A Mormon edit of the Nicene Creed (HT: Evangelical Outpost).
Why those South Korean missionaries were in Afghanistan
Research Points to Single Origin of Humans (HT: Pure Church)
“When a church subscribes to Virtual Pastor, each person in a congregation helps "shape" their pastor by entering likes and dislikes into a response box during services. This live feedback is fed into the company’s servers and helps to change the pastor’s sermon topics, hair style and more in following weeks. The result is a pastor perfectly tailored to the will of the congregation.” (“Virtual Pastors please picky church-goers”)
The website for artist, and Christian, Makoto Fujimura.
Ten Ways to Make Sure You Stay Broke
America’s Strangest Laws
“Porn,” says Naomi Wolfe, “doesn’t whet men’s appetites--it turns them off the real thing.” In New York magazine, she said, “Young men and women are being taught what sex is, how it looks, what its etiquette and expectations are, by pornographic training--and this is having a huge effect on how they interact. But . . . the onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women. . . . Today, real naked women are just bad porn.” The men of your Ministry Staff have x3watch on our computers, and we recommend it to you.
A sad (tongue-in-cheek) story: “The life of recent college graduate Jeremy Fahey was forever changed earlier this month when the once outgoing and carefree student succumbed to a job offer at a local insurance claims firm, an unforeseen and tragic event that will most likely keep him confined to an office chair for the rest of his life” (Caution: Some stories at The Onion can be offensive).
Have you read the previous posts this week? They include the "Song of the Week" ("Creation Dream" by Bruce Cockburn), a vacation trip that one of our Common Ground groups took together, what I hope to see in the next BGCT Executive Director, and photos from a recent work day at Mission:Possible. To keep up with the journal, sign up for e-mail updates or assign the feed to your news reader or Google Personalized Home Page.
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