This last summer at our VBS at church, we taught our kids about a Haitian Church in the USA. It was part of the Lifeway Curriculum SBC churches all over the country would have used. How many of us will celebrate, or even bother sharing as a praise during prayer meetings this week, that…1/2

Today I am making corned beef hash and eggs in the oven. I hope this works.

If you find yourself lonely, try visiting a church!

If you want to write a message to the President of the SBC over his defending evil in a Cities Church Pastor overseeing the horrific abuses of ICE in Minnesota, you can do so here. www.sbc.net/sbc-president/

After seeing what has happened in the wake of the revelation that one of the pastors at Cities Church is in charge of ice operations in Minnesota, and after witnessing the cowardly and corrupt response from the SBC leadership, all I can say is that the SBC deserves whatever God does to it.

Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.

This is how you know Trump is no master of economic and political manipulation. If he had waited until right now in this moment to threaten tariffs as a tool to get Greenland, it would probably at least get him some serious concessions, though I doubt anything short of outright military force…

The fact that ICE had asked multiple people in Minnesota who are filming them if they have learned their lesson from the killing of Renee Good makes one thing clear They believe she was shot for filming ICE. They wouldn’t be using it as a threat if they thought she was shot for trying to kill Ross

Peter Abelard was such a fascinating person.

I had an assignment to choose one event in my Church History Semester 1 class in Seminary to write a 10 page paper on. I chose the Fourth Crusade. It was absolutely brutal. It was so bad that one of the worst popes in history excommunicated the crusaders for doing it. At least, until they…

When I was a kid, well, teenager, if your parents got mad because they saw a Harry Potter book in your bag, it meant your parents were Evangelical Fundamentalists, or Mainline Protestants that bought into the Satanic Panic Hype. And God help you if they found you playing D&D.

This is the left’s equivalent of “it’s just a few mean tweets, who cares?” There are a lot more problems on the left than a historian getting a few minor facts wrong. I’m much more concerned with those on the left calling for concentration camps of their own once the left is back in power.

Shepherds were people who lived on the margins of society in the ancient near east. God has always been among the people of the margins. It’s not a coincidence he chose them to witness the baby Jesus.

Merry Christmas!

I spent hours last night shelling peanuts so my wife could make white chocolate covered peanut clusters. It was worth it.

Advent comes to a close. A reminder that all periods of waiting have their end. All twilights eventually give way to the dawn. Don’t be so quick to move on from periods of waiting. But don’t cling to them so tightly you forget what you were waiting for.

When did Franklin Graham become a big fan of Kratos?

A couple weeks ago I asked if you could pray for my best friend's daughter. It's been a terrible daze since we found out about her brain tumor. Of your charity, please consider donating anything you can and, if nothing else, please share this. Lord have mercy... www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Liberty without virtue doesn’t do anyone any favors.

I don’t know if I’ll ever get over the irony of a Unitarian Universalist being the author of the most pro-war Christian hymn ever written in the United States.

At the place where morning gathers, You can look sometimes forever til you see, What time may never know , what time may never know. How the Lord takes by its corners, This whole world and shakes us free, To run wild with the hope, run wild with the hope.

Catherine of Siena - “Christ the humble shoot grows into a tree of mercy under whose branches all find peace.”

We have a tendency to rewrite history to minimize the bad things our ancestors did in the past. This thread points that out rather well I think.

An easy way to save money if you use a lot of canned chicken and have a deep freeze and a stock pot. Buy chicken breasts in bulk. Boil them until they are tender and chop them up. Put them in freezer bags and pop them into the deep freeze. You can save even more if you are willing to eat dark meat

Pete Hegseth talks about Fog of War like it’s a video game.

I’m revising my opinion of Faramir taking the ring to Osgiliath in the movies as opposed to the books. When you consider the depths of the changes Peter Jackson made to Denethor, it makes more sense for Movie Faramir to try to win his father’s approval by bringing him the ring.

And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and men will no longer train for war.

Evangelicals aren’t exactly well known for any academic or theological rigor. Which is what makes our bluster and arrogance so incredibly ironic. We can’t recite the Nicene Creed from memory, but gosh darn it if the majority of us don’t think we are the most accurate expression of faith on earth.

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild - White Tailed Deer (Indiana) - Bison (Oklahoma) - Prairie Dog (New Mexico) - Pike (Colorado) - Grizzly Bear (Wyoming)

Thanksgiving Night Sky

Well this is just embarrassing.

MAGA must be going nuts right now that there is a song in Spanish at the Macy’s day parade.

I just got done smoking a turkey for 8 hours, and it is fantastic. The reason I don’t do it more often is because it’s a lot of work. And, fyi, I’m quite happy to smoke, crockpot, or roast a turkey breast on its own any week.

Et tu, Charlie Brown?

Advent is just around the corner!

Targeting churches for deportation during the second holiest time of the Christian Calendar is vile and satanic. And ironic, because part of the Christmas story is about a family fleeing a government hunting them down too.

Glory to God in the Highest, peace on earth and goodwill to mankind.

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

As a Christian in my teens and twenties, I was told for years that if we let liberals legalize Gay Marriage, that would be a slippery slope to legalizing pedophilia. Even if that should be a personal decision, we can’t allow it because the risk is too great. Who is defending pedophilia now?

Political Idolatry not only rots your morals, it rots your faith.

The SBC might be very flawed. But last night my local association voted unanimously to fully sign over the deed to 2 acres of property to an immigrant church plant in our area so they can have full autonomy over their church building and the fields around it.

Twenty eight days in.

The local gas station has a breakfast sandwich with eggs, sausage, bacon, and cheese. All on two pieces of buttered Texas toast. For five bucks. Meanwhile the local diner charges thirteen bucks for eggs and sausage on a plate with some hash browns. Yeah. Not a hard choice.

Chicken Noodle Soup with homemade noodles just hits different

Is the fifty year mortgage supposed to match the fifty years it now takes to pay off student loans?

Mamdani is going to implement Shyamalan law. I have a sixth sense about these things, trust me.

Almost every pastor who’s been in ministry for more than a minute has a story like this.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

1/4 A number of folks who have watched the TikTok social experiment of the woman calling churches and asking for help, and then been upset at the churches for not helping her shows me one thing. A lot of folks on this app like to talk about helping the poor, but have zero experience in doing so.

Our grandparents fought in a war where their enemies used mustard gas. Today our federal agents can’t even handle being “attacked” by mustard on a sandwich. How long until condiments are considered a deadly weapon in the wrong hands?