These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.This year, I have a lot to be thankful for. I so grateful to have all of you to share my blogging life with. I'm blessed with a great family, a job, and I'm surrounded by people I love that I get to minister to at church. My church has a great purpose in Africa, and my Dad is doing great after surgery. All in all, things are great.You probably have a lot of similar things on your 'gratitude' list. Many of us will sit down with our families in the least dysfunctional manner possible, and get a little mushy about all the great things in our lives.But you know, there's a lot of stuff in my life that doesn't get the attention and

Life After Oprah
"Noooooooooooooooo!"Such was the worldwide reaction last Friday as Oprah announced, in an unfathomably selfish decision, that her show will end in 2011.Thus, after 25 years, 60 million men will be freed from the tripod marriages they've had with their wives and Oprah, and 60 million women will be left

Modern Gender Roles
There is no such thing as a stay at home Dad.That’s Mark Driscoll’s opinion, as I recently found out. I like Mark, but he’s not one to mince words. If you’re a guy and you’re staying home with the kids, he thinks you’re a fraud. Ladies, if you have kids and a job, he thinks you’re a fraud too.I tho

Doesn't Anyone Have a Sick Friend We Can Pray For?
Does your church open the floor on Sunday morning for prayer requests?What’s the most requested prayer?My guess is most people want to pray for healing. Every Sunday we open the floor to prayer requests. Sure, we get a sprinkling of other concerns. But I can always count on the old standby “someone I know is sick” prayer. I almost don’t know if I could give a prayer in front of my church without “lifting someone up” and asking that “healing hand” of the “Great Physician” would “be upon them.”And yet I dread it when that’s all we have to pray about. It’s apparent why we make health related prayers the most. Bein

Protesting the End of the World
"2012" starring John Cusack opens this week.A lot of New Age hippies take 2012 seriously. They've all got basements full of Y2K survival kits, and they need the end of the world to come sometime soon, so they don't look like gullible idiots.A lot of people seem to like John Cu