“Oh, my God you’re so cute,” a teacher exclaimed to Caleb, my four year old.
Without hesitating, he replied, “That’s not nice to say about God. The 10 Commandments say so.”
The woman sheepishly apologized, then turned and walked away.
I was, I’m ashamed to admit, embarrassed that my son had corrected an adult. My first thought was [...]
As sports fans have caught World Cup fever (or bandwagoning peer pressure), one church near our offices in the Chicago suberbs is still basking in the afterglow of the Blackhawks Stanly Cup victory. (That’s hockey for those of you like me who thought the NHL went under a couple of years ago.)
Anyway, here’s a picture [...]
“I’m good!” I proclaim.
I trip over a curb, a friend turns and asks if I need help, and I respond: “No, I’m good!”
This is ironic, of course, it’s only when I really stumble that it even occurs to me to announce my self-sufficiency to those around me.
Actually, the expression “I’m good” probably means something quite [...]
This past weekend, I experienced my first sermon delivered by video. The church I go to is preparing to go multi-site later this year, so video sermons are something I’ll need to get used to since our pastor will rotate between campuses in an unannounced, where’s Waldo sort of fashion.
I have to admit as the [...]
In Alan Jacob’s the biography of CS Lewis “The Narnian” he tells how Lewis helped start a debating society called The Socratic Club in which the claims of Christianity were debated.
“Austin Farrer—a priest and theologian who, along with his wife, Katherine, was a close friend of Lewis’s and Tolkien’s wrote of how he feared situations [...]
This is a video put together by Central Christian Church. I really like it when a church can take something as simple as a worship song we’ve sung for years and turn it into something new and impactful.
Your thoughts?
I’m a sucker for the Olympics. I’m not sure why, but for several weeks every two years my evenings consist of my wife and I sitting on the couch and watching an evening full of events. Like every Olympic year, NBC rolls out a whole shlew of stories featuring athletes and their emotional struggles that [...]
Leading up to this year’s Super Bowl, there was some controversy about a pro-life ad from Focus on the Family. The commercial featured Heisman Trophy Winner Tim Tebow and his mom Pam, who talked about her decision not to have an abortion (without actually saying the word abortion). Pro-choice groups criticized CBS for accepting [...]
The recovery community has a saying, “expectations are preconceived resentments”. The angrier or safer people feel the freer they become to share their resentments and many of these resentments are against God. Usually these resentments are based upon some history of hurt. God’s providential governance of the universe appears overly haphazard and risky and we [...]
Last week, I watched every episode of Conan O’Brien’s The Tonight Show, all of David Letterman’s monologues, two full episodes of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and various viral bits from other shows. But the thing is: I never watch late night talk shows except for bits I find online. So why did I watch? [...]