Thursday, December 20, 2007
I am a technology junkie, a natural introvert and an internet addict. Sitting in front of a computer and cranking out carefully crafted blog posts is easy; I am in my element. Surprisingly (especially to those who truly know me), I have been called to a position which reveals my pastoral ignorance. [...]
In about five hours I will be boarding a plane bound for Charlotte. There I will connect to Philadelphia. Then it is on to Scranton where my oldest sister will eventually pick me up. The last time I visited her was under similar circumstances. My sisters and I had gathered to [...]
Thursday, November 1, 2007
By the sincere working of the Spirit most of us really WANT to sing the hymns, pray the prayers and extend the blessings as they are written, but we are so passionately addicted to ourselves that we simply do not (cf. Romans 7).
Below are some of the Trinity Hymnal selections that readily come to mind [...]
“I think the secret to Osteen’s success is this: he teaches self-help but wraps it in a thin guise of Christian terminology. Thus people believe they are being taught the Bible when the reality is that they are learning mere human wisdom rather than divine wisdom. Osteen cunningly blends the wisdom of this age with [...]
Long before blogs (when the web’s groundwork was being laid) a gentleman by the name of Walker Percy, a life-long Catholic with a vibrant evangelical faith that led him from pursuing a promising career as a doctor of the body to pursue a faith rooted calling to be a doctor of the soul as a [...]