A New Mission for the Local Church - Part 1

On the Nature of Pastors

Maverick for President

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
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Thanksgiving Prayer - by Cori Bryan
Dear God,I don't know why we have only one day to give thanks,But while we are here we might as well start.We all have many thank-yous in many different lengths,And every one comes straight from our heart.We thank you for our food, and that we have a bite to eat.We thank you for our family and meeting here together,We thank you for pies and cakes, for a treat,And thank you for the climate and having good weather.We know people all over the world don't have good things,They don't have food, shelter, or really much to do.We should be thankful we have that stuff, and lots of other piles of things.And we s

Life Is Short, Walk Slow
I have come up with my spiritual discipline for this Advent - I am going to walk slower.Everywhere I go, my steps will be at a slower tempo than my default pace. I'll be sauntering places, or perhaps moseying. (I may even stroll from time to time, or maybe amble.) I have already been practicing, and let me tell you it is going to require an intentional effort to slow my steps every time I walk anywhere. Apparently, I am a pretty fast walker most of the time ... I'm just sayin.A couple of questions that are probably wandering through your mind - "Why? is one. And "how is that a spiritual discipline?" may be another.Why? Because I think Advent needs i

What ARE we waiting for?
There are at least two ways to say “What are you waiting for?” depending on how you emphasize the syllables. The most common way to say it is to emphasize the syllable “wait” – the resulting expression is intended to impel someone to act, to stop standing around and do something.But if you emphasize the “are,” the expression has an entirely different meaning. “What are you waiting for?” Expressed this way, the expression is one of expectation. It infers the waiting, and prompts us to think about for what, exactly, we wait.This question is going to frame my Advent season. What exactly are we expecting to happen? If Advent is a

The War on Advent
I’d like to take a moment and discuss a religio-cultural war in our world, an insidious plot that is threatening to erode the very foundations of the faith. This conspiracy is so deep that NO ONE is talking about it, and only the most intuitive and discerning persons, such as myself, have noticed it. The rest of you who are blind to this war are obviously yourselves unwitting pawns in its prosecution.I am speaking today, of course, of the WAR ON ADVENT currently being waged by Christians all over our nation!Those who have master-minded this deviancy are so clever, they manufactured an entire other controversy to distract an unwitting nation from their true agenda.