Picture the scene. A raucous wedding party. The bride and groom dancing. The waiters surfing the crowd with appetizers. The DJ spinning tracks. Banners, balloons, flowers and streamers. The celebration and ecstasy. Then the unthinkable happens. No wine. How do you run out of wine? What kind of cut-rate party is this! But one mother in the crowd hears of the … [Read more...] about One Confident Mother
Archives for May 2012
Images of the Bible – Sustaining the Seedling
God’s word can snap the mighty cedars of Lebanon (Psalm 29:5), but it can also sustain the seedling. It can uproot an ancient cedar, but it can also prosper an acorn and cause it to grow into a mighty oak. Psalm one describes this simple fact: “Blessed is the manwho walks not in the counsel of the wicked,nor stands in the way of sinners,nor sits in the seat of scoffers;but … [Read more...] about Images of the Bible – Sustaining the Seedling
Little God Moments
I was leaving one office, headed back to mine. I was walking. For whatever reason, I went back a different way. Instead of heading out the door I came in, I went up a flight of stairs, hung a left, and preceded down another long hallway. Head down, absentmindedly checking my phone and walking, I heard someone call my name. I turned to see an old friend, a church member I … [Read more...] about Little God Moments
More Than Right
There's more to disagreements than being found right. There's relationship. Ed Stetzer writes: "One of the greatest things I've learned in life is this: people are more important than the point. Instead of working so hard to defend our positions and enforce our demands, we can till up a lot more kingdom soil by treating other people as more valuable than our own appeals … [Read more...] about More Than Right
The Evolution of Christian Rap
The first Christian Rap I ever listened to was "Nu Thang" by DC Talk. The year was 1990, I was ten, and I listened to the tape on my Sony Walkman, which, I might add, had the ever fancy auto-reverse feature. Kind of a big deal. Anyway, "Nu Thang" was fun. It sounded more hip-hop-MC-Hammer-ish than a track of serious rhymes and beats. A quick look at the lyrics gives a fairly … [Read more...] about The Evolution of Christian Rap