A couple of months ago I was offered an opportunity to join the Tyndale Blog Network. This gets me access to free books, which is always nice, and I review these books in return. It’s a nice deal, I must say. This is my first review. For my first review I decided to get the…
Month: July 2009
Welcome to synchronicity…
Conservatives tell me all the time that they don’t confuse the country with God. They tell me this even when they are complaining when I won’t let them sing the Star Spangled Banner during worship when the 4th of July falls on a Sunday, but they tell me this. Now, however, I’ve got a video…
Caught in the middle…
I was invited to a prayer breakfast this morning by a friend who happens to pastor the local Lutheran Church here in town. He’s been hoping for years to see people of faith have an impact “on the ground” in our aging small towns and suburbs and has become part of a coalition in New…
5 Great Reasons to Give to a Church
A couple of days ago I listed five terrible reasons to give to a Church. Like I said in the post, they aren’t things I typically hear around Central that much any more. I have heard them at Central on occasion, and at every other Church I’ve ever been part of. It’s a terrible shame,…
5 worst reasons to give to a local church
I have heard, or seen in action, each of these bad reasons for giving in my time as a Christian, and every time I have head one of them I’m cringed inwardly. I still do here these at Central occasionally, but over the six years I’ve been here they’ve become rarer and rarer. So much…
