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This is for angelmoose and anyone else if they want to give it a go:

RULES: I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want. Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this, allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.

There's so much frost on the back windows I can't see out.  All I can hear is the hum of the fridge, the cars driving by, and the breathing of the man asleep on the floor behind me.

I slept on the floor last night too. That's been my bed for a week now because I rented out my bedroom for $200 to tide me over until the new tenant arrives in January ( Read more... )

We know that our Lord from a very early age "went up" to Jerusalem for the annual fests (Lk. 2:41-42). We continue to identify with the first disciples who "were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid" (Mk. 10:32)  We also are amazed and afraid for there is ( Read more... )

In the pastoral work of training people in discipleship and accompanying them in pilgrimage, I have found tucked away in the Hebrew Psalter, an old dog-eared songbook. I have used it to provide continuity in guiding others in the Christian way, and directing people of faith in the conscious and continuous effort which develops into maturity in ( Read more... )

I don't know what it has been like for pastors in other cultures and previous centuries, but I am quite sure that for a pastor in Western culture in the latter part of the twentieth century the aspect of world that make the work of leading Christians in the way of faith most difficult is what Gore Vidal has analyzed as "today's passion for the ( Read more... )

One aspect of world that I have been able to identify as harmful to Christians is the assumption that anything worthwhile can be acquired at once. We assume that if something can be done at all, it can be done quickly and efficiently. Our attention spans have been conditioned by thirty-second commercials. Our sense of reality has been flattened by ( Read more... )

The above title was recommended to us by our pastors....and so I begin to make my way through, typing it out in places, and reading when I can focus more, to ascertain its truths and instill its message in my brain....

This world is no friend to grace. A person who makes a commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior does not find a crowd ( Read more... )

Just to let those who've been inquiring know that I am still alive and well and walking with God and with those He has brought into my life ( Read more... )

Matthew 15

What Pollutes Your Life
1After that, Pharisees and religion scholars came to Jesus all the way from Jerusalem, criticizing, 2"Why do your disciples play fast and loose with the rules?"
3But Jesus put it right back on them. "Why do you use your rules to play fast and loose with God's commands? 4God clearly says, "Respect your father and ( Read more... )