Can Facebook replace the church? – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/07/03/facebook-replace-church
#church #Facebook #social-media
Can Facebook replace the church? – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/07/03/facebook-replace-church
Snakes, gasoline and demons (Part 1) – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/06/29/snakes-gasoline-demons-1
When your car quits in front of the tow truck – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/06/05/car-tow-truck
Last week our car took out in the street, overheated at a traffic stop. I quickly entered a one-way street (the wrong way), on a little plaza, and pulled over. Parked in front of me a few yards ahead was a tow truck from our auto insurance company. God is good.
#Bible #faith #providence
Rest for your souls – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/04/24/rest-for-your-souls
Weekends, holidays, vacation time — we want rest! Today we have more time off than people of any age. But some still think that the time they have for rest is little for so much work and responsibility.
Our problem is that the rest we need is for the soul.
In the eye of the beholder – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/04/15/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder
Like weather, people and circumstances are rarely all good or all bad. Which we choose to see, and how we classify them, usually depends more on us than them.
Church as decentralized web – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/03/20/church-web
One feels mystified by how the first-century saints found each other. One suspects they were such intense proclaimers of the gospel that people everywhere knew who and where they were. Times have changed.
Better to have never been born – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/03/13/better-not-born
Jesus’ phrase applies as well in this case, for we waste life, lose out on the joy of knowing God, and will suffer eternal punishment for refusing the Way.
Christians are the spiritual Israel of God – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/01/16/spiritual-israel
Who we are defines what we do. We are not end-point recipients of God’s grace, but the conduits of his salvation.
What it means to be a new creation – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/01/09/new-creation
A look in the mirror will tell nothing. Except for perhaps a softer, more peaceful expression on one’s face, there is no noticeable difference in physical appearance after baptism than before. No one can publish any drastic before and after pictures, when it comes to conversion. No one sprouts wings. No halo appears. No special light or aura surrounds a new Christian’s body. We look the same.
The God who walks – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2017/01/02/god-walks