America becoming less Christian (CNN)

This is a portion of a headline taken from CNN.com. (Want to read the article? Click Here) The gist is this: a recent survey has found the percentage of those that “call themselves Christian” has dropped by 11% since 1990. And while compared to the percentage drops Wall Street is racking up, this stat is [...]

A good Velvet Elvis discussion

Was doing a little googling about Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis (tracking down an idea of his to use as an illustration in a talk for tomorrow morning) and came across this post. Thought it was interesting and a good dialogue showing the different ways people interpret what Bell says in his book, including my comment [...]

November #1 – Let’s Talk About Pottery

My wife loves news.  Her preferred source?  CNN. (Yes, I know… your eyebrows have raised and you feel the need to sing the praises of Fox News, hoping to pull us from the jaws of liberal media…. We’re OK, thanks.) Thus my Firefox homepage is CNN.com. I actually really enjoy starting from their page – [...]

September #1 – Simplicity

I was working on the LYM page for our church newsletter and came across a quote that I decided to include, and now I want to share it here.  It deals with simplicity – not so much in the Mac vs. PC debate (though I find the picture compelling) – but this quote is instead [...]

August #2 “The Hard Sayings of Jesus”

This is a book I’m using to put together a series of youth talks for this fall.  I like the idea of working through some of the more confusing and perhaps difficult passages that recount Christ’s words.  Jesus said things that are difficult to wrap our minds around. But I encountered something unexpected as started [...]