In Sunday's sermon I quoted from Robert Samuelson's latest op-ed piece. Here it is: "The Downside of Ambition." To listen to last Sunday's sermon--week two of a series through the 12 Apostles--click here.
Great white shark: 0; mom with kayak paddle: 1. (HT: The Morning News)
Advice for anyone moving to Texas.
Researchers find that gossip is more powerful than the truth. As a church leader, I coulda told you this 20 years ago . . .
A fascinating cartoonist comments on a fascinating cartoonist: In "The Grief That Made 'Peanuts' Good," Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes discusses Charles Schultz of Peanuts.
More people are finding churches through web searches today. In fact, nearly every under-50 visitor to Hillcrest has found us online before they visited us.
Big Love: Forget eHarmony, single ladies. This man is looking for a 9th wife to give him more than the 67 children he already has.
If you're a parent of a college student, or if you just care about them, watch "A Vision of Students Today."
“Faith is nothing. Really, it is. In fact, one way to ensure missing the gospel is to think faith is something. But it’s not. It’s really nothing at all. . . . Faith couldn’t care less about itself. Faith wants you to stop thinking about it, too, because in thinking about it, you are thinking about how you have (or don’t have) it. And so, you’re really just thinking about yourself” (Matt Jenson).
What’s left for kids to play with? First they took away their lead-laced toys, now they’re taking away their unexploded bombs.
A nude chocolate Mohammed? Frank Lockwood says he’s tired of U.S. news organizations that are “more than happy to mock evangelical or Catholic Christianity, but they're somewhat leery of offending Judaism and they're down-right terrified of offending Islam.”
“It’s hardly a place you would expect to find a $1 million painting. But one March morning four years ago, Elizabeth Gibson was on her way to get coffee, as usual, when she spotted a large and colorful abstract canvas nestled between two big garbage bags” (story). That's the second "fortunate find" art story this week. The first: A church almost tosses a $90,000 painting out with the trash. Pastors: start your sermon illustration software.
Julie “Bible Girl” Lyons continues to discover healing prayer.
My latest excuse: Weight gain is connected to being married.
If you're a church leader, you should read David Zimmerman’s series on a “visitor’s perspective” to attending church.
Deloitte & Touche finds that women and men communicate differently.
“In death penalty cases, says Jonah Goldberg, "'reasonable doubt' goes to the accused because unless we're certain, we must not risk an innocent's life. This logic goes out the window when it comes to abortion, unless you are 100% sure that babies only become human beings after the umbilical cord is cut. I don't see how you can be that sure, which is why I'm pro-life -- not because I'm certain, but because I'm not.” Good article. So . . why did the Austin-American Statesman change the title from “Why Be Pro-life?” to “Why Be Anti-Abortion?”
Have you read the previous posts this week? They include the "Song of the Week" ("Songbird" by Rosie Thomas), my son's preparation to vote in his first presidential election, and how to address our culture's concern with tolerance (second of a five-part series). 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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