Fourth Sunday of Advent
Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup 12/16-12/22/2012
This is our weekly roundup of posts for 12/10-12/15/2012. If you have any feedback on how we can serve you our readers better, I would appreciate it. Thank you for reading and allowing us to minister...
View ArticleA Journey Led From Above
I know a GPS works in a scientifically explainable way, but sometimes it seems like magic that a small box inside my car verbally directs and redirects me using information from unseen celestial bodies...
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Game night
It's all fun and game until someone gets hurt! This phrase kept running through my head as our family embarked on our annual family game night. During the holidays we love to play games together....
View ArticleBook Review The True Account of Adam & Eve
Nearly every day I encounter some piece of news, an article, or a blog post on the internet that tries to get me to doubt some aspect of my Christian worldview. One of the more popular biblical...
View ArticleTheologian Trading Cards – It’s the Gift that Keeps On Giving
Forget the Jelly of the Month club, this is a stroke of genius. I’m kicking myself that I didn’t think of the idea first. Zondervan has had some great money makers (The Purpose Driven Life was pretty...
View ArticlePerpetual Advent
In advent, we celebrate the coming of Christ as the prince of peace. We cultivate a longing for peace. We highlight the bright promise of his coming—good news of great joy for all peoples...
View ArticleWhat Jesus Started: Part Five of Five
An Advent reflection based on the book What Jesus Started by Steve Addison. Read parts one, two, three and four here. Advent is the beginning of the Christian calendar. While the world waits till...
View ArticleFooling around with water in zero gravity at the International Space Station
“I’m gonna give it another puff just because I’m in space and I can.”
View ArticleAdoption is Hard Work
About two years ago we began the process of adopting two boys from Ethiopia. My wife has since read many an adoption blog, but they seem to all be from a woman's perspective. We're near the end of ours...
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Our Savior Announced !
THE FOLLOWING ARE PASTOR CRUTCHFIELD’S NOTES FROM THE 12/23/2012 SERVICE AT COMPASSION CHURCH OF KATY. ANNOUNCING THE ARRIVAL OF OUR SAVIOR ! By Rev. Robert A. Crutchfield Senior Pastor, Compassion...
View Article-Atheist Celebration: Happy HumanLight Day?
Today is December 23 and you my not have known it but it is HumanLight Day. What is HumanLight you ask? It an Atheist/Humanist alternative to Christmas and has been celebrated by some since 2001. From...
View ArticleFire damages Brooklyn church that is hub for Hurricane Sandy relief
[Episcopal News Service] More than 100 firefighters battled an early-morning blaze at a Brooklyn church that has served as a major distribution hub for relief services in New York following the...
View ArticleEvangelism: Following Jesus
[Episcopal Diocese of Washington] If you’ve followed this series of posts on evangelism you may have noticed that what I’m proposing is basic communication skills. It’s not all that radical. Our unease...
View ArticleArchbishop of Canterbury: ‘If all you have is a gun, everything is a target’
[Lambeth Palace] In his final Thought for the Day this morning on BBC Radio 4, the Archbishop of Canterbury talks about the recent killings in Connecticut and discounts the argument often put forward...
View ArticleChristmas 2012
We share some thoughts on Christmas and a song “Wherever We Go” which I wrote a few years ago. God bless you all.
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The Bells on Christmas Day -- The Song, The Story
(A Red-Letter Believers Christmas Tradition) One of my favorite Christmas songs is I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, taken from a poem penned by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem was written in...
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Galileo meets the Mayan apocalypse
Far and away my favorite headline of Friday was the one that ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: Experts almost certain world not ending today How great is that? And I say that as someone who was not...
View ArticleFor Elizabeth
I pray that God comforts youI pray He heals your heartI pray that He will make you wholeAnd lend a brand new startI pray tomorrow you will wake To sunshine and a smileI pray tomorrow you will...
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