Tag Archives: God

Putting the rebels in charge

Posted on 13. Jun, 2009 by admin in ThoughtStream

Putting the rebels in charge

An oft-repeated poem outlines the confusion of trying to live in absolute freedom…freedom from any responsibility or rule or law or God telling you how you should live.
Creed by Steve Turner
We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of [...]

Why many wept, but not for joy [Mc]

Posted on 13. May, 2009 by admin in ThoughtStream

I did not weep for joy. But I agree with everything else that John Piper says in this video.

It’s Sunday, but Monday’s coming! [Rev]

Posted on 12. Apr, 2009 by admin in ThoughtStream

How many similarities and differences do you see between Easter for today’s church and Easter for those that experienced the first one? Of course, the differences are many – egg hunts, sales and shopping, chocolate bunnies, to name a few.
But one of the biggest differences also leads to one of the biggest similarities.
The first Easter [...]

Reunion [Mc]

Posted on 26. Feb, 2009 by admin in ThoughtStream

When I saw the name of my sister-in-law come up in the caller ID on my cell phone, I silently prayed that there would be some reason she was calling me in the middle of a Sunday night service other than the one that I knew was coming. Julie and Trudi’s dad, Holton, has been [...]