What You Believe About God Matters

What You Believe About God Matters

"Today’s idea is that the great divide is between those who say 'I believe in God' in some sense and those who cannot say it in any sense. Atheism is seen as an enemy, paganism is not, and it is assumed that the difference between one faith and another is quite secondary. But in the Bible the great divide is between those who believe in the Christian God and those who serve idols—“gods,” that is, whose images, whether metal or mental, do not square with the self-disclosure of the Creator." - J.I. Packer, Affirming The Apostles' Creed

I’ve Been To The Mountaintop

I’ve Been To The Mountaintop

It is Wednesday, April 3, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr is in Memphis, Tennessee to participate in the Memphis sanitation workers strike. He is scheduled to speak at Bishop Charles Mason Temple. King is exhausted, and fighting a sore throat and fever. Initially he decides not to give his speech, but then reconsiders and arrives to a standing ovation.

My First Journal Entry of 2015

My First Journal Entry of 2015

I am a journal person. While I am not quite convinced the world can be divided into those who put pen to paper and those who do not, I belong to that cohort who record things: dates, thoughts, miles walked (1043.2 last year), lessons learned, ideas untried, frustrations encountered, prayers offered, victories claimed...You get the picture.