At our partner ministry Walk the Way, Jeff Klein has been talking about Halloween the last few days.  In this video, he’s talking about masks.  While many folks will throw on a literal disguise this weekend, every other day of the year many of use wear a metaphorical mask by the hiding who we truly [...]

(Guest Blogger: Dave Trout.  Dave is the host of the nationally syndicated program ‘Under the Radar’ which features the best in under-appreciated Christian music.  He also writes a weekly column called ‘The Gourmet Music Report.’  In this post, he’s taking a little break from music to talk about culture.)
Should a pastor friend of mine have [...]

The Good Wife, a new weekly drama on CBS, reacts to the one question everybody asks whenever there’s a press conference for a politician disgraced by a sex scandal, and his wife stands supportively next to him: what’s she doing there? Why isn’t she following Carrie Underwood’s advice and taking a Louisville Slugger to his [...]

What to make of Letterman? I find myself conflicted.
On his Late Show program Thursday night, David Letterman relayed the true story of a blackmail attempt against  him for $2 Million, starting about three weeks ago. Letterman’s response was both to have the extortioner arrested and, presumably to pull the teeth out of any future threats, [...]

Craig Groeschel, the senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv, has been writing an interesting series of blog posts about giving the last 10%.  He says in most things we do, giving the first 90% is the easiest because it doesn’t take as much risk.  Plus our human nature tell is that once we’ve hit 90%, we’ve done [...]

It’s happened to me more than once.  I get an email from someone I don’t recognize right away.  But after staring at it for a few moments, I recognize the last name of someone I know.  So I open it and realize it’s actually from that person’s spouse…I think.  But on closer look I see [...]

As you enjoy a holiday weekend, consider how nice it would be to have a three-day weekend every week. It may sound like a dream but it’s become reality for state government employees in Utah. The state has saved $1.8 million and 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the past year [...]

I thought we could start out the week with some funny marital advice.  I first ran across Johnny and Chachi a couple of years ago at the Echo Conference.  They cracked me up, but I am a sucker for song parodies and grown men in wigs.  Regardless, there’s some good advice  in here.

I ran across an article from RNS reporting in the first ten years it was available, only 1% of couples getting married chose a government-defined “covenant” marriage over a “regular” marriage.
Apparently in Louisiana (and also Arizona and Arkansas), couples can choose between two types of marriage licenses.
The first, favored by the 99%, is what most [...]

ChurchRelevance.com recently posted some research coming from Ken Ham’s new book Already Gone that takes a look at trends that suggest Sunday school is failing at making long term disciples.
The findings focus on 20 to 29-year-old evangelicals.  Around 95% of those surveyed regularly attended church in elementary and middle schools.  As other research has shown, [...]