November, 2008

• A look at the word “tolerance”, what it means according to Webster’s 15th century definition and what it looks like today against the backdrop of social acceptance of sin.

  Tolerance

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  Candid

• I wish there were more videos along the lines of this. We don’t need more “Starbucks churches”.

  How scary similar this is to churches today. When the new customer guy says, We just want some coffee, imagine he’s saying, We just want Jesus. That’s how I felt when I went to church for the first time. [...]

  Coffee

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  Over

• Ugh. What a weekend. Mom was here for the girls’ birthdays (all three in a week). Surprisingly though, Mom wasn’t what made the weekend so draining. It was something else entirely that I didn’t notice until this weekend. It’s the mom factor I guess, that extra responsibility that moms have that make it impossible to [...]

  Screaming

• Ever since Sarah Palin came on the scene I’ve been wrestling with the idea of a woman in power. In my fresh Christian days I was turned off by people who objected to female pastors. It irked me just as much as the “Adam and Steve” joke I hadn’t heard but was apparently old in [...]

  Deborah