My neighbor told me a few weeks ago that he bought his fifth-grade son a cell phone. As my neighbor is a bit of a Luddite and has resisted such things in the past, I was surprised. What surprised me more was his reasoning, which was nowhere on my radar screen. Seems he bought the [...]
Posted in Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Community • Counterculture • Godly Character • Hospitality • Oddities • Simplicity
Tagged Communication, Community, Facebook, Internet, Interpersonal Skills, Networking, Relationships, Social Networks, Society, Twitter
It’s a cliché to say that one of the benefits of aging is wisdom, but the older I get, the more I realize that being clichéd doesn’t make something less true. One of the things I’m slowly learning is that God uses even that group of people who drives you nuts. You know, the ones [...]
Posted in Discernment • Godly Character • Maturity
Tagged Advice, Advisers, Compassion, Felt Need, Gift, Oddities
Cerulean Sanctum’s More Cowbell Award, given to the most ridiculous aspects of “Christian” practice, has not been handed out since October 2007, and since “time may be running out,” I better bestow another while I still can. I start this seventh award by asking, Has there ever been a more bloodthirsty, demon-driven culture than the [...]
Posted in Apologetics • Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Counterculture • Discernment • Eschatology • Godly Character • Heresy • In the News • Maturity • More Cowbell! • Oddities
Tagged 2012, Charismania, Discernment, Jesus, Mayan Calendar, More Cowbell!, Rapture, Second Coming
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