Just when I thought spring would never come, God delivers a gorgeous day. I even got up to go to church today.

They sang this song that has the line take the coal/cleanse my lips/here I am. Every time I hear it the image is so stark and gorgeous. It's magical and real. Words can't explain my attachment to the passage that the line references ( Read more... )

God Hates The World music video

I felt like crying when I saw this. Not because I suddenly realized that I was GOING TO THE FIREY DEPTHS but because these people are systematically undermining EVERYTHING Jesus taught us.

Luke 1:76-78 7And you, [Jesus], will be called a prophet of the Most High ( Read more... )

My family and I were having this discussion this morning when we drove past a billboard in the a "rough" (not any more or less rough than the entire city) part of town that featured the Pledge. My mother idyly commented: "I'm glad they kept the 'under God' in ( Read more... )

I suddenly realize why my religious beliefs do not mix with those of Campus Crusade on the whole evangelism (going out and asking people if they have accepted Jesus) issue. There are certain points in which I am pretty friggin' hard line Calvinist (Presbyterian, yo). One of which is predestination and supralapsarianism (thanks wikipedia for giving ( Read more... )