More Than Bread Devotional for 6/30/08

Psalm 118:1-6
1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
2 Let Israel say:
“His love endures forever.”
3 Let the house of Aaron say:
“His love endures forever.”
4 Let those who fear the LORD say:
“His love endures forever.”
5 In my anguish I cried to the LORD,
and he answered by setting me free.
6 The LORD [...]

People get ready! Jesus is Coming! Soon we’ll be going Home

Updated information:  I added a couple of sentences to this post and placed today’s date in italics before them at the best place for them to fit.  I also added a link or two as events have popped up to add to the mix.
I am not given to wild and rampant speculation, except on some [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 6/27/08

Matthew 15:1-3
1 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”
3Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
With three kids around [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 6/26/08

Psalm 19:14
14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
You are what you eat is the old adage.  But Biblically there is a much better one.  You are what you say.  Here in the Psalms is a prayer to the Lord [...]

Was Peter the first Pope?

Update:  As you may notice in the comments, this post was included in a Patristic Carnival at another blog.  To those who have found your way here via that link, welcome.
I had some great comments and discussion on the first post about what the Church should look like.  But one of them spurred some [...]

What is the Church supposed to be like Part 2

As a follow up to some of the discussion from my earlier post, I wanted to insert this article into the thinking process.  This is about the house churches in China.  They don’t belong to a denomination.  They are trying to associate together according to this article to help gain greater freedom to worship.  I [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 6/24/08

Isaiah 40:13
13 Who has understood the mind of the LORD,
or instructed him as his counselor?
The most dangerous time in the life of a believer may be the moment we think we have God all figured out.  I wouldn’t say that God deliberately complicates things as much as we do sometimes, but it is plain from [...]

Baseball

Well, we finally got pictures from Jonathan’s game tonight. I was the only coach there for our team and we were missing two players. Amelia was able to come and help keep order in the dugout for me. The other team only had 8 players, but we figured the kids would still [...]

More Than Bread Devotional for 6/23/08

1 Corinthians 8:11-33
11 So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so [...]

What is the Church supposed to be like?

Update: In my discussion on this post I realized that I mislinked two of my own blog posts in the original post.  I have fixed those links.  Sorry if they caused anyone a headache.
Let me start with a disclaimer. I love my church. I love the people in my church. Of all [...]