Weekly roundup

Can you afford to stay at home? – Mom Loves Being at Home offers some excellent cost saving tips
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This is a good series: 50 Answers to 50 Mormon Answers to 50 Anti-Mormon Questions (you might need to read that title slowly).
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UCC Truths – a good site for the orthodox believers in the UCC
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 Sin on a bun [...]

Evangelism experiences 2

When counseling a guy who would come into CareNet Pregnancy Center with his wife/girlfriend I would have about 45 minutes to get to know him, learn his needs, tell him about the center and what it provided, persuade him to choose life (for the ~20% or so that were abortion minded) and to share the [...]

Evangelism experiences 1

As noted in the overview, this is the first in a series of experiences I want to share about evangelism.  I may come back to some plain old lessons, but sometimes a story can convey a few lessons at a time.
Setting: CareNet Pregnancy Center, where I was doing weekly volunteering for a couple hours counseling guys [...]

The Roman Road (with a couple detours)

This is just a quick post about a series of verses sometimes referred to as the Roman Road.  They are verses (mainly from the book of Romans) used to give an overview of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  I’m just posting it here so I can refer to it in other posts.
Romans 3:23 for all [...]

Does your evangelism look like this?

If it does, I have good news for you.  I’m about to start a series about some things I’ve learned when sharing the Gospel.  It does not have to be a painful, antagonistic process. 
When I first became a Christian and got serious about my faith, there were three things I knew about evangelism:

It was part of [...]

Weekly roundup

New links for the blogroll: Pistol Pete, Got questions? and College Christian.  Check ‘em out.  I’ll wait here.
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Randy had an excellent series on Pay day loans that made me reconsider my views on them.  It is a three-part ending on 5/22.  I just linked to his main page so you can read them all at once.
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NARAL fuelds pro-abort [...]

Denying the obvious

I had some fun sparring with a commenter over at the Christian Alert.  He dismisses all arguments for the existence of God, including those from causation, design and morality.  It isn’t as if he just doesn’t give the arguments much weight, he dismisses them altogether.  For him, the exceptions make the rule when it comes [...]

Mission trip tips

I’ve had the blessing to go on three short-term mission trips to Kenya and am in the process of preparing for our Honduras trip.  I wanted to share a few things I’ve learned along the way and see what kinds of tips other more experienced folks might have.
Learn some of the language – You don’t [...]

Saved by ____?

One of the errors of Mormonism is in 2 Nephi 25:23, which reads, “For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.” [emphasis [...]

California Schemin’

First, let me ‘fess up to shamelessly borrowing stealing the title from Marshall Art’s place.  That song is one of my all time favorites, and I can actually play it on the guitar.  Sort of.
The California Supreme court “same-sex marriage” decision was predictable though unfortunate.  I usually avoid bits on news that everybody is blogging on, but [...]

EXPELLED II – The Tables are Turned

The title of this post is the hypothetical theme for those complaining that I moderate their comments. 
I pride myself on being pretty generous with new folks.  But if I’m having to repeat myself and they are silly or off-topic then they go in the moderation queue, where they may or may not surface from.  The [...]

Weekly roundup

Try finding this image of Obama’s buddy Ayers on Google.  Given how well known this shot is, you’d think it would go to the top of Google searches for “Ayers flag.”  It is nowhere to be found.  Is Google evil for hiding this?   Hat tip: Stop the ACLU
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Theologian Michael Scott, from The Office: “If there [...]

Woo-hoo!

Man, I am so lucky.  My wife informed me that she actually prefers e-cards over the paper kind.  She thinks they are funnier and prefers that I not pay the $4-5 the regular ones cost.  I am thrilled.  I hate standing around looking at cards, trying to find something that isn’t too lame.  This will [...]

Bishop follows his heart, not the Bible

From TODAY show interview:

Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson knows he is inviting death threats by entering into a civil union with his gay partner on the eve of his church’s biggest ecclesiastical conference. And he says it is worth it, because he is doing what God asks of him.

When God “asks” you to do something you need to [...]

Are Mormons really Christians? Are Christians really Christians?

A Mormon friend said that Mormons were Christians and I chuckled because I thought he was kidding.  He wasn’t.  He is very active in his church and in evangelism, so I assumed that he knew the distinctions.  I pointed out that a foundation of Mormonism is that it is the true church and we are [...]

Home churches

I’ve heard that home churches are gaining in popularity.  I’ve heard concerns that there could be doctrinal issues given the lack of seminary-educated leaders, but with so much bad doctrine being pumped out of so many churches it is hard to imagine the problem being worse!
What do you know about home churches, and what is [...]