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Keep Good Friday and Easter Together
ByhenryEaster services are much better attended than Good Friday services. I suspect this is inherent in human nature. We prefer the solution to the hardship getting there. We prefer the happy ending to the suffering that led up to it. It’s not surprising that we do. Who doesn’t prefer those good times? Who doesn’t want…
Dave Black at Chumuckla Community Church
ByhenryI had the pleasure today of hosting Dr. David Alan Black at Chumuckla Community Church. I’ve been teaching there for the last five weeks, and preached once. Today Dave shared pictures of some of his mission work and also preached. His sermon was titled “Jesus and the 30 Year Transition, working from Luke 3:23. Well,…
Nobody Ever Thinks They Are Creating a New Denomination
ByhenryChristopher Ritter is complaining, though only in the nicest, most creative way, about critics of the new Wesleyan Covenant Association. It’s interesting how efforts to reform often end up creating new denominations, even when the leaders don’t intend to do so. Just look at the example provided by Ritter in his post. I commend Ritter…
Affirming Feminine Spirituality
ByhenryMy Christianity Today Connection news e-mail connected me to an article in Today’s Christian Woman titled The Goddess Unmasked. It’s a Christian response to Wicca, looking at reasons why women who have grown up Christian become Wiccans, and discusses ministry to them. It’s not my intention to discuss the issue of responses to various religions…
Lingamish on Iconography of the Gospels
ByhenryLingamish is presenting a series on his blog, Iconography of the Gospels, in which he explores ways of looking at the gospels. I commend this series to those who are interested in reading the gospels with more breadth and depth. Entries thus far: Iconography of the Gospels Iconography of the Gospels 2 The Doctor’s Strange…
Christian Carnival CCXXXII
Byhenry. . . has been posted. This time my contribution was from my wife’s devotional list, but I’m still linking the carnival from here.