Pastor Jim Wallace of The Rising Tide church is blogging about a mission trip that he is leading this week. The trip is for the youth in his church, and for their trip, they have traveled to Utah where they will interact with Mormons all week long. Each day, they’ll be posting updates on their [...]
It all starts with a thought
then moves to a craving
but for what
steak or salmon or a salad
[...]
Hobbits is from Kentucky!
Fred Sanders, at the Scriptorium blog, relates how J.R.R. Tolkien found inspiration for his hobbits via his interaction with a classmate from Kentucky.
Solitude and Silence as Spiritual Disciplines
Just in time for our community group’s summer book study of J.P. Moreland’s The Lost Virtue of Happiness, here’s a series on the spiritual disciplines [...]
Watch as Paul Potts, an unassuming mobile phone salesman, sings Nessun Dorma made famous by Luciano Pavarotti. Members of the audience break out in spontaneous applause, Simon Cowell’s jaw drops, and tears came to my eyes.
I have recently been facing a dilemma. “Fortunately”, I have some close friends who have been a great deal of “help” to me in order that I might make the best decision.
Prayer is simply mysterious. At times it confuses and frustrates me, but the desire for it triumphs those thoughts. It is a wanting to speak and yet not knowing what to say or how to say it. For the sake of brevity in my ramblings on prayer, I decided to seek some answers and what [...]