Category Archives: Christianity
Ministries of Mercy
I just started reading a book by Timothy J. Keller called Ministries of Mercy: The call of the Jericho Road as a part of a new strategy group at my church, formed to explore the biblical principles and practice of the … Continue reading
A Biblical Perspective on Helping the Poor
My nephew-in-law, Chris Horst works for Hope International, a Christian based micro-finance and micro-lending organization. He lives in Denver, and has a WordPress blog site called Smorgasblurb, and I just noticed this recent post as being particularly good. It’s called Monthly … Continue reading
Manhattan Declaration
If you are a Christian of any kind, flavor, brand, creed, persuasion, location, affiliation, category, group, school, society or denomination – then I encourage you to join me and thousands of others in signing the Manhattan Declaration:
Work to End Slavery
A group of friends have formed a Local Abolitionists group in Oak Park, Illinois, to fight slavery, human trafficking and the sex trade. More information can be found at LocalAbolitionists.org. Their next event is the showing of a film called … Continue reading
The Talking Mirror
Today I’m happy for a friend named Conor McCarthy whose website at TheTalkingMirror.com was featured in an article in the Chicago Sun-Times. The website features satire written mostly toward and about evangelical Christians in an attempt to not take ourselves … Continue reading
My Ministry Age
In the recent issue of Christianity Today Magazine, there is an interesting quiz that helps one determine their “ministry age” by answering a series of 25 multiple choice questions. It was developed by Jimmy Long of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to … Continue reading
Sunshine Gospel’s Virtual Fund Rasier Event
Sunshine Gospel Ministries serves the inner city Woodlawn neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Like many Christian non-profit ministries, they rely heavily on funds donated by supporters. Usually, this means putting on a big fund-raising event like a banquet in the fall … Continue reading
The Red Dot Approach
As mentioned in an earlier post, a good friend recently gave me a book to read by Dr. Larry Crabb entitled: “Real Church: Does it Exist? Can I Find It?” I have finished reading the book and have been reflecting on … Continue reading
Fundamentalism
Dinesh D’Souza writing in “What’s So Great About Christianity?” Some Western analysts describe the religious revivals around the world in terms of the growth of “fundamentalism.” This is the fallacy of ethnocentrism, of seeing the world through the lens of … Continue reading