The holy month of Ramadan begins for Muslims around the world. This year’s celebration runs the evening of Wed, Mar 22, 2023 – evening of Thu, Apr 20, 2023. Be blessed in observance and the time of drawing closer to the important things in life. Ramadan Mubarak and Ramadan Kareem.
Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change–and clobber–other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.
Richard Rohr
Spring is coming today at 5:45 PM Eastern Time. We didn’t have much of a Winter but the past couple of days the temperatures have been really cold for the south. Let’s celebrate this time of year.
Attitudes, not laws rule a country.
This post might be narrow blogging to the team Jesus squad. I hope it doesn’t offend anyone. These are some thoughts and I don’t want to start a debate.
Church and Christianity for that matter should be places of comfort for those who have hearts and souls that need mending after being damaged by various things. Dealing with the reality of life and its ugly stuff is hard work and the church should be a place where you can do that. I want less praise and worship and more blues and gangster rap.
Life is hard enough and Christians should be about helping people on the journey. People of faith are human beings. God is god and when that is realized freedom can be found. It is my hope that my church can be a safe haven for imperfect people. I hope this makes sense.
I imagine this is what wild bird Twitter is like. Lots of birds on a wire talking about all sorts of things. It’s pretty cool to see all of them just hanging out and doing real-life tweets. Hopefully, they get along better than humans.
Learning and growing is what makes the dream possible. Or something like that.
My fellow Gen Xers rewatch The Goonies. It will carry you back to some good times when life was a little simpler and the adventure was awesome. It also has a newly minted Academy Award winner in the cast. While you are at it show your kids.
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