Here is an interesting video by a friend of mine. He asks this question with regards to Christians: What if?

Yesterday, I found this quote by Frederick Buechner over at InternetMonk. I thought it was quite powerful:

When a minister reads out of the Bible, I am sure that at least nine times out of ten the people who happen to be listening at all hear not what is really being said but only what they expect to hear read. And I think that what most people expect to hear read from the Bible is an edifying story, an uplifting thought, a moral lesson—something elevating, obvious, and boring. So that is exactly what very often they do hear. Only that is too bad because if you really listen…there is no telling what you might hear.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a particular article challenging us to build correctly, according to the blueprint of God.

I specifically looked at Abraham, and even more, the insight given to us by the writer to the Hebrews in the New Testament (Hebrews 11:8-10). I noted that, by faith, Abraham saw something quite significant of what God wanted to build. But, even upon entering the land of promise, he still felt as if he were in a foreign land. Ultimately, he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. Continue reading

This past Sunday, I preached a message entitled, What Are We Building?

To be completely honest, I think we get caught up with building things that are not according to the pattern of God. He has a pattern, a blueprint, if you will. But we throw in all these things that either have nothing to do with the way God builds, or the thing that we have brought in is good and acceptable, but we then define it as a must. Both are not helpful. Continue reading