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A Thing about Things
Last night, I included this in my sermon, and a few folks said they liked it, so I thought I’d share it with you. It’s just a short paragraph I wrote about how we define ourselves by the things we have in this life. Enjoy! We like our things. Our shiny things, our glittering things, our flickering things, our quiet things, our gimmicky things. We drive things with nice things on the wheels and great things to play music for our drive. We have things on our walls and things on our floors and things in our attics and things on our doors. We put things in the garage and…
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Friday Links Roundup: Tea Party Edition
No, not the election season tea party. Mary Carol turned five yesterday and her “big” present was what she calls her “tea party table.” She also got some dishes and cups (thanks to Grammy and Grampy), so she held a marathon tea party yesterday. It is hard to believe that it’s been five years since we adopted Mary Carol. The way God brought her into our lives is one of the most amazing things we have ever experienced, and we are grateful every day for His working in our lives. Here’s our adopted treasure opening a present yesterday. ———————- On to the links for this week: 1. Any reminder I…
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Guest Post: The Church and Money
[Today’s post is the 8th in our continuing “The Church and…” series. It is written by Craig Ford, who is a missionary in Papua New Guinea. Craig is one of the writers at the blog Money Help for Christians. You can subscribe to the blog’s RSS feed here. We are grateful for Craig’s insight into this topic, and for taking time to write for us.] I grew up believing that discussions about money carried a certain amount of ‘unholiness’. Those who are truly spiritual elevate themselves above such petty issues and instead focus on more important discussions of salvation, baptism, heaven, and hell. I assumed that the truly holy are…
