Posted on Tuesday,

A Fresh Start…A New Day

“But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”—Lamentations 3:22-26

What a wonderful promise to begin each day with. God’s loving kindness never ceases and no matter what happened yesterday; new mercies and grace await us today.

Posted on Thursday,

Sand?

What are you building your life on? “No one sets out to build on sand….Life is this way. No one sits down and plans on having a mediocre existence. No couple pledges their troth aiming at getting a divorce someday. Nobody nurses a grudge in hopes of becoming a bitter resentful person. People don’t give birth to children intending to be so busy that their kids won’t know them. No one sits down and plans on his life going to hell” (Ortberg). It just happens one choice at a time.

Jesus told a story once and asked a very profound question: sand or rock? What’s it gonna be?

Posted on Wednesday,

Has the Church lost her mind?

“Has the Church lost her mind?” That is a question that many within the evangelical world are rightly asking. After much study of this question, historian Mark Noll concluded that “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.”[2] Os Guinness laments “Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind. Living in a sensuous culture and an increasingly emotional democracy, American evangelicals in the last generation have simultaneously toned up their bodies and dumbed down their minds.”[3] Guinness even begins his book by including a humorous cartoon illustrating this sad state of affairs with one character saying to the other “Buns of Steel—Brains of Silly Putty!”[4] Evangelical Philosopher and Theologian William Lane Craig observes that “Our churches are filled with people who are spiritually born again, but who still think like non-Christians.”[5] Is this an accurate portrait?