Archive for September, 2007
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007The Internet is a place that can be fun, informative, scary, and loony. We can broadcast our thoughts to the world and the world can share their thoughts with us. The downfall of this is that we can broadcast our thoughts to the world and the world can share their thoughts with us.
Atheists have existed [...]
Poser
Monday, September 10th, 2007A short story originally written September 11, 2006 (Edited 9-11-07)
My brother never opened his Christmas presents in 2001, 2002, and 2003. Christmas of 2004 and 2005 no one even bothered to buy him anything. We followed his wishes and made donations to charities in his name for his gifts. He won’t be opening any Christmas gifts [...]
Our defender
Sunday, September 9th, 2007Matthew 15:1-2
Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”
You are one of the disciples, sitting beside your teacher, your mentor, your friend, the man you want to be like. You’re [...]
Calming the storms
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Matthew 8:23-27
Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Without warning, a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”
He replied, “You of little faith, why are [...]
On your knees
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007As I was praying about what to write for this article, I tried to listen for an answer, but I was just too distracted by my own thoughts.
First, I was thinking too much about the testimony of Peter Orasuk, which I had just listened to. If you’ve never heard of him, he has an amazing [...]
Us crazy Christians!
Monday, September 3rd, 2007A couple weeks ago CNN aired a three part series called God’s Warriors. It took a look at the three Abrahamic religions: Jews, Muslims, and Christian, and tried to weave parallels between them. Each religion was given a two hour time slot, first observing the Jews, then the Muslims, and the last night, Christian’s. I [...]
Movie Review: Paper Clips
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Reviews are a feature that I would like to make a recurring feature here. But not your average “newest theatrical release” reviews, but stuff that’s a little obscure, a little older, maybe even a little terrible.
Part if this is necessity. As the parents of two young’uns, we don’t get out to movies very much (let [...]
