Late night, early November
Late night thoughts while watching the Phillies, who are up 8-2 over the Yankees.
My friend's church has a sign with the large plastic letters to announce events. The letters are manually placed, and sometimes there aren't quite enough. That's why their "Sing and Celebrate" was (for about an hour - just long enough to get a picture and locate a critical letter) became "Sin and Celebrate". I'm trying to locate photographic evidence.
It's not brain surgery - making disciples, that is. Evangelicalism and it's perpetuation is a big job though, and requires more strategy reassessments than Afghanistan. Hence the collective hand wringing recently as detailed in Evangelicals feel a need for renewal in the Washington (Com)Post last week. Can it be that difficult?
I wandered through the religion section of a local Borders and saw that Ed Dobson has written a new book that is intriguing, to say the least. The Year of Living Like Jesus chronicles Dobson's year of, well, living like Jesus. When a book is recommended by Cal Thomas AND Brian MacLaren, you know it's going to be a little different. I respect and appreciate Dobson - and have since his days with Jerry Falwell when he and Hindson co-authored a book that (perhaps better than any other) explains evangelicalism. THIS is not that kind of book.
I am always surprised when people are not "in tune" with the fact that we as a nation are at war. Perhaps I'm more aware of it because very day I pass a bronze plaque in front of a tree planted to honor three people who worked for my company and were killed by Islamic terrorists on 9/11. It is a reality that touches my life in some way every day. The most recent way is in the loss of a Marine reservist from my company who was killed in Afghanistan.
It is time for me to sign off - the Yankees have the tying run at the plate.
My friend's church has a sign with the large plastic letters to announce events. The letters are manually placed, and sometimes there aren't quite enough. That's why their "Sing and Celebrate" was (for about an hour - just long enough to get a picture and locate a critical letter) became "Sin and Celebrate". I'm trying to locate photographic evidence.
It's not brain surgery - making disciples, that is. Evangelicalism and it's perpetuation is a big job though, and requires more strategy reassessments than Afghanistan. Hence the collective hand wringing recently as detailed in Evangelicals feel a need for renewal in the Washington (Com)Post last week. Can it be that difficult?
I wandered through the religion section of a local Borders and saw that Ed Dobson has written a new book that is intriguing, to say the least. The Year of Living Like Jesus chronicles Dobson's year of, well, living like Jesus. When a book is recommended by Cal Thomas AND Brian MacLaren, you know it's going to be a little different. I respect and appreciate Dobson - and have since his days with Jerry Falwell when he and Hindson co-authored a book that (perhaps better than any other) explains evangelicalism. THIS is not that kind of book.
I am always surprised when people are not "in tune" with the fact that we as a nation are at war. Perhaps I'm more aware of it because very day I pass a bronze plaque in front of a tree planted to honor three people who worked for my company and were killed by Islamic terrorists on 9/11. It is a reality that touches my life in some way every day. The most recent way is in the loss of a Marine reservist from my company who was killed in Afghanistan.
It is time for me to sign off - the Yankees have the tying run at the plate.
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