Did you know that U2’s second album October was actually sold in “Bible bookstores”? (I read that Evanescence’s second full-length album Fallen was actually intentionally distributed in the Christian market, too, until the band went and made a scene. Where have I been? That’s okay, I don’t like Evanescence anyway. Your sound and your music […]
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Christians are so uncool. At least Rolling Stone thinks so. They were going to run a story about down & dirty street ministry on the Spanish island of Ibiza, but RS pulled the story, because apparently they’re mad at Christians for getting Bush re-elected. In their response, the brothers and sisters at 24-7prayer.com said: The
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I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself,that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.Correct me, O LORD, but in justice;not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. (Jer 10:23-24, ESV) Jonathan Edwards wrote that cold results from the sun going below the horizon,
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Rom 3:23 (ESV, NIV, NKJV, etc.) All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But I’m not used to looking like I need His grace so much. I’m used to looking like I pretty much have it all together. But
I was saddened while reading about the Fourth Crusade yesterday. Crusaders were forced by Venetian extortionists to sack Christian lands like Zara and Constantinople. They never even went to the Holy Land. Pope Innocent said Satan was behind the whole thing. Well, yeah! In his wrap-up to the chapter on the Crusades, Bruce Shelley writes,
In his essay, “Xmas and Christmas,” C.S. Lewis impersonates a Roman historian analyzing British culture, and he describes two distinct winter festivals that occur at the same time, yet which have two different themes that are not related to one another at all. One is pagan and the other is Christian. One involves a mad
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I rented Luther this weekend and watched it twice. The opening credits proudly tout the name of the Lutheran bank that bankrolled the film (which I thought was kind of weird… you never see B of A or Wells Fargo logos come up with the studio logos at the beginning of a movie). The editing
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More than a year ago I e-mailed Relevant and asked them to fix their website because it was always crashing my Netscape. (Now, don’t misunderstand me–I’m not a hardcore Netscape user, but during this particular period I was testing out other browsers, and also using them to debug clients’ sites.) When they responded to my
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he
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I just want to give a shout out to Millennium Systems, my web hosts to whom I refer all of my clients. They were extremely helpful in getting directory permissions and Perl modules set up in order for me to be able to run this blog. I must say, I’ve been doing web programming for
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