The Pressure’s On

have you felt it yet?
if you work at a church in this state, i’m guessing you have. emails, calls, mailers, volunteers and others, all pressuring the evangelical community to get out and vote against the gay-marriage amendment to California’s constitution.
and, it’s only the beginning.
just this week we were visited, and then called the next day, [...]

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A Question

i might be over-estimating a little bit, but my guess is that a lot of Christians in america frequent starbucks more often per week then they do church services. nothing wrong with that, just the context in which we begin.
just about everybody knows that starbucks, in an effort to give us ‘better coffee’, is instituting [...]

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Kingdom of Comfort part 2


now, part 2.
a few days ago we talked about a trend in christian music.
while it is undeniable some people are upset with the Church in america, i find that in every area of this country there really are churches that are busily showing God’s love to their communities.
not only that, but i find that in [...]

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Kingdom of Comfort part 1


first, part 1.
have you noticed the trend?

It’s time for something more real than all these words
While the least of these are broken and dying
We count the pearls in our purse
It’s time to live in love
If judgement looms under every steeple
If lofty glances from lofty people
Can’t see past her scarlet letter
And we never even met her
The [...]

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Being A Conduit


right now i’m a conduit through which an already widely-posted article will flow.
HT: this guy
as Barack Obama found out last week, when you run for president you can’t even get away with being a lousy giver to charity. After Mr. and Mrs. Obama released their tax returns, the press quickly noticed that, between 2000 and [...]

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Wednesday Morning Prayer


the majority of readers here are Christians, which is good.
Christians have lots of varying opinions on things, which is natural, but difficult.
whether you support our president or not, today he needs prayer.

oliver stone’s movie ‘W’ starts filming this month
‘bush killed’ in palestinian kids tv show
i think it’s safe to say that most of us don’t [...]

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I Forgot That None Of Us Are Adults…

on the one hand this is a great story. our president, who i greatly respect, is man enough to throw out the opening pitch at a baseball game and NOT have it bounce before the plate.
I didn’t want to bounce it, that’s for certain,” Bush later told ESPN announcers Jon Miller and Joe [...]

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We Need To Have An Intervention…


apparently some ‘researcher’ thinks moses was a dead-head.
read about the silliness here
question 1 - what? (accompanied by furrowed brow and squinted eyes…)
question 2 - how can you even attempt to ‘research’ a topic like this?
i love his quote: “As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, [...]

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Ugh…


i think i bit off more than i can chew…

…someone please help…

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How NOT To Campaign


as many of you know, i like mike huckabee. if the election were tomorrow he would definitely get my vote. as for november ‘08…we’ll see.
as many of you don’t know is that i am on the mikehuckabee.com blogroll. i don’t really think i deserve to be there, but hey, it’s pretty cool. i wouldn’t have [...]

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