My usual “Fridays are for New Music” will be replaced by more than the usual new music today. I just have too many songs to talk about to call it the normal Friday music post. 1. The Oscar winning Best Song was called “Falling Slowly” on the movie Once. I’ve heard great things about the [...]

 Parts 1-3 are here, here and here. 4. A lot of people like church because it is easy and comfortable. I remember talking to my dad one time about a family that had left the church. Essentially they told him church was becoming too convicting. They didn’t like that every Sunday they felt convicted, that [...]

3. It is not the church’s job to bring you to spiritual maturity. Almost every Sunday afternoon my family and I would come home from church and have lunch together. My dad was always ask what we remembered from his message. Test time!!! Eek. I probably had a 50% rate of remembering something valuable. I [...]

2. There are a lot of people leading double lives (post 1 is here) Inevitably there is the person who you see outside of church and you hardly recognize their personality because they are acting completely different. In some way we are all leading double lives. We all have sin natures and are always fighting [...]

I have been a pastor’s kid (PK) my whole life. My dad was working at a church and finishing seminary when I was born and has been a pastor my entire life. For the part of life I can remember he has worked here, here, and here. Without even working at a church I have [...]

The talk today on so many blogs has been about this new survey that came out today saying that more people than ever are leaving their faith from childhood. Beyond this, Protestant Christianity is barely the #1 religion of choice right now. Another survey out of UCLA says that college students are more likely to [...]