QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO, while pastoring a church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I passed another church on the way to mine and noticed the words on their sign out front:
“Does God seem far away?
Who do you think moved?”
Sometimes we truly do feel as if God is far, far away. It can seem [...]
Archive for December, 2007
19 Dec
A God With “Skin on Him”
18 Dec
7 Ways to Survive Christmas
1. If you’re old enough to read this, then remind yourself that you’ve done this before—and none of those Christmases Past finished you off.
2. Enough with the perfection already. You get to go on living even if you don’t get everything done. And you’re not auditioning for Martha Stewart, Oprah, or any other sentient being, [...]
17 Dec
Sunday Laws in America
MY WORK INVOLVES, among other tasks, editing and preparing for publication materials for a wide variety of clients. At the moment, I’m working on a book setting forth the history of so-called Sunday “blue laws.”
The very first such law was enacted in the Colony of Virginia in 1610, and read as follows:
Every man and woman [...]
16 Dec
The Best Christmas Gift You Can Give
MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS ago now, singer/songwriter Harry Chapin wrote and sang a song that captured all too accurately how parents often fail to give their children the one gift they most want and need.
“The Cat and the Cradle” told the story of a father too busy to spend time with his young son. The [...]
14 Dec
The Good News Fight
THREE COUCH POTATOES sprawled across the living room furniture one evening in front of the TV, when their favorite program—“CSI: Topeka”—was suddenly interrupted by that laundry-detergent commercial starring the Mud Puddle Kid.
Up on the screen, a weary mother looked blissfully grateful for the box of Mud-B-Gone detergent she hugged tightly in her arms, as—out in [...]
8 Dec
Merci, Danke, Gracias, and Thanks
THANKS MUCH TO Jeff Boyd over at Adventist Environmental Advocacy for sending along a fine set of new blogs to add to our blogroll here (new to this list, that is). You’ll find his contributions in the current “Newly Discovered Adventist Blogs” list to the right. Some really catchy blog titles in this list!
With Jeff’s [...]
7 Dec
Sabbath Blog Potluck—6
LAST POTLUCK OF 2007 is now up at the “Blog Potluck” page tab at the top. This ought to hold you till Christmas dinner.
5 Dec
The “Straw God” of the Golden Compass
MAYBE BY NOW, YOU’VE found it in your email: a warning against a movie opening this week with the title “The Golden Compass,” starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel “James Bond” Craig, and Sam Elliot, among others.
I won’t reproduce the email (you can find it here on the rumor-and-urban-legends site Snopes.com). Yet while the email does get [...]
