Dan Philips of the Pyromaniacs on the real work of finding God’s will, instead of just waiting for him to tell you. Valerie was preparing some dish for our church pot luck, and needed lime-flavored tortilla chips. I looked and looked among the chips, the tortilla chips. Nothing. Up, down, back and forth. Nothing. I …
I don’t believe the ability to point out a problem is, in itself, a spiritual gift, certainly not one which the church should celebrate and cultivate in Christians. Pete Hurst offers a few thoughts on where we should tell negative people to go: Being negative, a pessimist, a cynic, is not God’s will for a …
Kary Oberbrunner examines the false assumptions that often overwhelm the grain of truth in the following clichés: 1. No Pain, no ______. 2. Winners never quit, and quitters never___. 3. If you can dream it, you can do ______. 4. No guts, no ________. 5. The early bird gets the _________. 6. It’s not what …
From Mockingbird blog, a quote that’s not quite as topical in Australia, but which is still relevant: During his pre-Super Bowl interview with Shannon Sharpe, in which Sharpe raised the question of Ray Lewis’ alleged involvement in a 2000 double murder, Lewis made the following, completely untrue, totally unbiblical statement: “If (the family of the …
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