Author Tony Campolo’s most famous message declares, “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Comin’.” But what happens when it’s Sunday and we’re still facing death and despair?
Here are some thoughts that go beyond that: It’s Sunday, but Jesus is coming!
Have a meaningful Easter weekend!
Jim
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Nihil Fit has a good post that outlines the different ways that God talks to people today. It’s a well-thought-out list. He closes with some interesting thoughts about the question “Does God speak to people today like he did in Bible times?”
I think the answer has to be “yes,” but with one caveat. Let’s distinguish [...]

Several weeks ago, we ran a poll asking what you were doing to commemorate Lent. 28% of you said that you weren’t doing anything special. Well, it turns out that doing nothing can also be a way of commemorating Lent and Easter. Drawing from a NYT travel article about “do-nothing vacations,” Angelo Matera at Godspy [...]

This entire article from Newsweek is well worth reading. It has me thinking quite hard about medication and our emotional states. Here are a few excerpts:
Students tell him [NYU professor, Jerome Wakefield] that their parents are pressuring them to seek counseling and other medical intervention—”some Zoloft, dear?”—for their sadness, and the kids want [...]

No, it’s not an accusation by a skeptic or atheist. It’s from an essay by James Walters, who wonders if God sometimes “tricks” people into doing something for one reason, only to later reveal that He has an entirely different purpose in mind. Walters describes a bewildering experience from his own ministry:
From the perspective of [...]

The CT site brought back an exceptional piece by Phil Yancey, just in time for us to break our New Years resolutions. It’s called “A Believer’s To-Be List: Steps to a fresh start with God.”
Wow, what a major load of insight from one of my fave writers! Of the nine points he makes, two really [...]

It’s Friday afternoon; how about something fun? Well, maybe fun isn’t quite the word—perhaps schadenfreude is better. That’s what I experienced watching this video of famous skeptic James Randi exposing faith-healer/televangelist Peter Popoff as a fraud:

(Here’s a follow-up video detailing Popoff’s “ministry” and fall—and which mentions the depressing fact that Popoff is still out there [...]

Today I was doing some research regarding online discipleship and came across a past Think Christian discussion. This discussion talks about how our culture is becoming “high touch” in light of its rapid movement toward being “high tech.” It also stated that, for that reason, discipleship can not happen effectively online.At what point is face [...]

Leaving Eden is a blog by an “undercover atheist” attending Wheaton College. It’s an interesting look at what it’s like to be in the extreme ideological minority in a Christian environment, and has some good posts challenging Christians to be more respectful in the way they talk to and about atheists. There’s an interview with [...]

C. Michael Patton has written a moving post sharing a hard lesson he learned about interpreting signs and miracles in our everyday lives. I’ll let you read the full post, but his conclusion is that we need to be very careful when we experience miraculous events and try to discern God’s will from them—even when [...]