Dear fellow travelers,
Sundays here are now “Sunday Share.” The post below is a clever piece of advice on how to use something everyone has – their face – as a reminder to practice gratitude in everyday living. Mama Lava has been posting daily “hacks” to encourage and entertain her readers and this is one of my favorites!
Dear fellow travelers,
Sundays here are now “Sunday Share,” but the post for today isn’t ready, so for now it’s “Saturday Share.” Today’s post comes from pastor, author and blogger Dave Peever. It’s a searching and thought-provoking piece on why attendance is declining in American churches.
He writes: “Many of our church leaders and attendees are empty people who have replaced compassion, community and commitment with butts in the seats, bucks in the bank and broadening their sphere of influence.”
Read the full post below:
I see no need to attend church. I know it sounds crazy coming from a pastor but the truth is I have trouble giving a good reason to show up every Sunday let alone throughout the week. I am referring to the congregation of course, if I don’t show up I won’t have a job.
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On Sundays Driving Toward Morning focuses on guest content. Today I’m sharing a blog post from Doug Eaton, about a struggle many or all of us share. Read more at the link below!
My biggest struggle with daily devotions is not carving out the 20 to 30 minutes needed to read the word and spend time with God. The most difficult part is slowing down my heart and mind enough to get anything from it. Here is the challenge. I usually wake up to an endless list of tasks […]
My Biggest Struggle with Daily Devotions — The Fight of Faith
Not everyone has the same relationship with social media, and not everyone loves or hates it the same amount and for the same reasons. For some, it may be fine just the way it is for how they use it. Below I’ve linked Tim Keller’s review of the book Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Chris Bail, which has some helpful observations on why social media is so polarizing for many, and some thoughts on how to make it a better place for discussion. Bail’s book is based on social science, not religion, but Keller connects it to Christian principles in interesting ways.
One of my favorite lines in the review is that “social media is not primarily a place of public discussion of ideas. The ideas are ways to define oneself and signal belonging to a group, as well as to assign identities to others by associating them with groups you oppose.” Near the end are listed “several principles that [Bail] believes move toward persuasion in social media rather than polarization.” It begins with listening and seeking to understand.
Full article linked below.
(Estimated reading time 10 minutes)
Today I’m sharing a post from blogger Anna Waldherr, with a sermon excerpt from Dr. Michael Youssef showing how Christ is the focus of each and every book in both the Old and New Testaments. Follow the link below for a great illustration of how the Bible is all about Jesus, a point I tried to make in this earlier post about how to say “Bible” in sign language.
Oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator (6th Cent.), St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mt. Sinai, Author JoeyEspo984 (CC BY-SA 4.0 International) “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me’ ” (John 14: 6). Tragically, Bible-believing churches are becoming all too rare. Many churches […]
The Only Way — A Lawyer’s Prayers
Driving Toward the Morning Sun 