Category Archives: Social Issues

Archive: Bring Them to Jesus

Tomorrow morning, I’ll be preaching at our annual Children’s Day service. I was going back through my blog archives and I came across this post I made two years ago. I wanted to post it here again, basically to serve … Continue reading

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President’s Day

Today we honor the men who hold the highest office in our land, our Presidents. I’ve been recording “The Presidents“, a multiple-episode biopic of the American Presidents. I’ve only been able to watch a few minutes of one episode, but … Continue reading

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March for Babies 2009

This is a copy of a letter Sunny and I are sending out to our friends and family to help raise awareness and donations on behalf of the March of Dimes. This is a cause we’ve been deeply invested in … Continue reading

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A Meaningful Christmas

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Job 31:24-28

24 “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’ 25 if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained, 26 if I have regarded the sun … Continue reading

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Bono on Malaria

While I’m on a run of Bono-induced posts, I found this one interesting. While I find it hard to believe malaria will be completely eradicated by 2015, I like the sentiment. And I’m also thankful that these kinds of issues … Continue reading

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Bono on the Bailout

Interesting quote by Bono on the bailout: It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion dollars to saved 25,000 children who die every day … Continue reading

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A Dose of Perspective

You know what helps me on days like this? Days filled with economic gloom-and-doom prognosticating and venomous political ads (even the local ones) and Ahmadinejad-Bush squareoffs and mortgage company fraud and racism and all the other stories that paint these … Continue reading

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Toward a Missional Ethic: Creation

I found this image online the other day. I think it probably expresses well the pervasive attitude from within the Christian community regarding the environment. The implication here is that I shouldn’t care about environmentalism so long as unborn babies … Continue reading

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Hail to the Chief

So the big news here in the Rocket City (besides price-gouging gas stations) is that a certain Oval Office inhabitant is coming to town later this week. The reason for W’s visit: a fundraising dinner on behalf of two Alabama … Continue reading

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