Modern Gender Roles
There is no such thing as a stay at home Dad.That’s Mark Driscoll’s opinion, as I recently found out. I like Mark, but he’s not one to mince words. If you’re a guy and you’re staying home with the kids, he thinks you’re a fraud. Ladies, if you have kids and a job, he thinks you’re a fraud too.I tho

Doesn't Anyone Have a Sick Friend We Can Pray For?
Does your church open the floor on Sunday morning for prayer requests?What’s the most requested prayer?My guess is most people want to pray for healing. Every Sunday we open the floor to prayer requests. Sure, we get a sprinkling of other concerns. But I can always count on the old standby “someone I know is sick” prayer. I almost don’t know if I could give a prayer in front of my church without “lifting someone up” and asking that “healing hand” of the “Great Physician” would “be upon them.”And yet I dread it when that’s all we have to pray about. It’s apparent why we make health related prayers the most. Bein

Protesting the End of the World
"2012" starring John Cusack opens this week.A lot of New Age hippies take 2012 seriously. They've all got basements full of Y2K survival kits, and they need the end of the world to come sometime soon, so they don't look like gullible idiots.A lot of people seem to like John Cu

Open Line Friday: Grandmas, Honesty and Jobs
Open Line Friday! The experiment begins today. I let you decide what I'll talk about! I got some crazy good responses to my request for topics to talk about today. I'm covering a few today. Some I'm saving for another Friday, and one or two, I just knew I'd have to write a full blown post on them. Thank you to everyone who responded. If you don't see your name here today, you just might on another day! Be sure to keep the ideas flowing to me!Rhode Island Alissa: What’s a crazy thing that’s happened to you in your work place? From working in a mall selling pet hermi

Love, Anonymous
When you put yourself out there on a blog, you’re bound to have people disagree with you.When people somehow think your blog is supposed to be funny, insightful, spiritual, or of any worth whatsoever, you’re bound to get people who think the exact opposite.I’ve always made a policy to welcome all c