Holiness Reeducation

From now till the end of 2010, doma has an amazing opportunity to receive up to $54,000 to help us rescue women from the sex trade. Maybe you can help? Working with the courts in Columbus, OH, doma has opened a house that serves the women caught in the sex trade. We give them a […]

Fellowship Church a megachurch based out of Grapevine, TX has been drawing in crowds at all of its campuses with a 3-D Christmas Eve service. Further evidence that pastor’s will try anything to get a crowd, the 3-D services have already been drawing thousands. First, they are running Christmas Eve services for a week? Secondly, […]

Tired brain, overload of interesting DC related sports stories, A Night in Bethlehem last night, and it is almost Christmas, that makes for some true ramblings on a Monday morning…. Jumping Right In (This section is for the hometown fan) Today is about Gilbert Arenas because he now plays for the Orlando Magic and as […]

What would you do if God spared your life and gave you a second chance to live? That is the thrust of the very interesting story in Isaiah 38. King Hezekiah is told by Isaiah that he will not survive the illness he has. So he should put his house in order. Hezekiah begins to […]

It is strange when you watch it snow for 24 hours and then you look out your window and your driveway has less snow on it than before the snow began. That was the power of the wind blowing around here the past couple of days. No one has any idea how much snow fell […]

This one is just awful. Christmas attitudes land businesses on naughty-or-nice lists at First Baptist Dallas’ ‘Grinch Alert’ website 11:41 PM CST on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 By SAM HODGES / The Dallas Morning News samhodges@dallasnews.comFirst Baptist Church of Dallas is making a list this Christmas, and lots of people will be checking it. The […]

Isaiah 35 is simply awesome. I have loved this passage for a long time. It is full of rich imagery that awakens my spirit. There are two major parts of the chapter that are striking. First there is the imagery of a desert coming to life. Isaiah knows that the exiles have a literal and […]

Do you ever think about snow as being holy? In scripture when snow is used for imagery it is almost always used as a sign of purity. David asks God to cleanse him of his sin in Psalm 51 and to wash him so that he is as white as snow. God promises in Isaiah […]

I came across this 2 minute video on what it means to be a missional church and thought I would share it. Well done and clever, that is all you can ask.  

In the not terribly interesting remake of Robin Hood starring Russel Crowe, there is a phrase they use to spur their rebellion. “Rise and rise again until lambs become lions.” Well Isaiah 11 has an entirely different Messianic message. It is a message that brings revolution, but a revolution that will allow the lions to […]