As you all know, the world is reportedly ending in 12 months- at least according to the Mayans. With that happy thought in mind for the New Year, I thought it fitting to present for your listening pleasure and edification a suggested Requiem for each month of this last year of Earthly existence.
Parties matter. How people party can tell you quite a bit about them. One of the most surprising aspects of our series in Leviticus was how God goes about changing an entire people group towards himself. Or put another way: How does God enact a massive melting of hearts across communities of family and nation?
The year has started and I realized I haven't posted the 2012 selections for the RPC Book Group here on Riverblog. I'm starting behind!
The following excellent article expresses what my heart has hinted at but not formulated nearly as well on why the Christian calendar is important.
Surfing around the web last week, I found this question posed by a young woman engaged to a man whom she dicovered has “struggles” with porn. She posted the question on a Christian website (here). A guy named Russell D. Moore (with whom I'm otherwise unfamiliar) gave her a …
Apparently last weekend, some 125 evangelical leaders met in TX to decide who should be encouraged among their flocks as the candidate of choice in the Republican primary. I haven't heard any results- only that they met.
Roe v. Wade is turning 39 years old, so President Obama decided to comment. It was pretty much what you'd expect from a pro-choice Democrat, and you can read it all here. What is truly remarkable in the statement is this little gem here:
And as we remember this …
Binge drinking is a problem, right? I mean, who's going to dispute that? But how widespread is this problem? Well, according to a new study by the federal government's Centers for Disease Control (your tax dollars at work), over 17% of US adults binge drink, and the average …