Posted by Editormum on 17 November 2013 in
News Commentary,
Uncategorized |
∞
I have a lot of friends who are wait-staff. They frequently tell me how much they hate working Sunday lunch, because the church crowd are bad tippers. They speak of people who eat a nice meal, pay the bill, and walk out of the restaurant without leaving a tip. Or, worse, they leave only a […]
Tags: character, Christianity, church, customer service, etiquette, food, Jesus, kindness, news, Religion, respect, Work Life
Posted by Editormum on 25 May 2013 in
News Commentary |
∞
The decision earlier this week by the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council to accept openly homosexual boys as Scouts has raised a lot of anger and vitriol across the country. The BSA has been warned to expect a mass exodus of boys and leaders from the troops. I’ve seen Facebook posts from many who […]
Tags: Bible interpretation, Boy Scouts, boys, challenges, character, Christianity, faith, grace, homosexuality, Jesus, news, parenting, Religion, respect
Posted by Editormum on 16 January 2011 in Uncategorized |
∞
I have a friend who is going through a faith crisis at the moment, and she recently said that she was not “worthy” of God’s love or forgiveness. I was writing to her to discuss this idea when I realized that there might be other people I know who are also struggling. So my letter […]
Tags: challenges, Christianity, Jesus, Religion
Posted by Editormum on 28 April 2010 in Uncategorized |
∞
I learned an important lesson from a room-mate nearly fifteen years ago, and some recent events have brought it to mind again. The lesson is about blessing and being blessed. In the mid-90s, I was working in the Chicago metropolitan area. The majority of the staff lived in company-owned housing, in an arrangement similar to […]
Tags: challenges, character, Christianity, injury, Jesus, kindness, Philosophy, Religion
Posted by Editormum on 14 January 2010 in Uncategorized |
∞
We tend, in our human minds, to think of levels or degrees of sin. There’s the little white lie that “doesn’t hurt anybody,” and there’s the really evil-wicked-mean-bad-and-nasty stuff like murder and rape. So we see Hitler as this depraved man responsible for the murder of six million Jews, and think “He’s a terrible sinner!” But […]
Tags: Christianity, forgiveness, grace, Jesus, Religion, sin
Posted by Editormum on 10 January 2010 in Uncategorized |
∞
I’ve been thinking a lot about crosses lately. I daresay that sounds a strange topic of thought — it’s C.S. Lewis’s fault. Between Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, I’m getting a lot of input about what Jesus meant when He said that each of His followers must “deny himself, take up his cross daily, […]
Tags: challenges, character, Christianity, faith, fear, grace, Jesus, karate, pain, parenting, Philosophy, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 24 December 2009 in Uncategorized |
∞
So we’ve talked about this special Baby who came into this world, why He came, and the circumstances into which He arrived. But the story doesn’t end with the birth of a boy baby. Oh no. If that were the end of the story — well, it wouldn’t be much of a story. No! A […]
Tags: Christianity, Christmas, faith, holidays, Jesus, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 23 December 2009 in Uncategorized |
∞
I closed yesterday’s post by saying that Christmas is all about the baby in the feedbox. Because that Baby was Someone special. God incarnate, come to tread on the soil of His creation, to rectify the wrongs done by the creatures He’d created, and restore them to fellowship with Him. Do you know that story? […]
Tags: Christianity, Christmas, holidays, Jesus, nativity, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 22 December 2009 in Uncategorized |
∞
It’s Christmas time, and what attention can be pried away from the presents and the parties is focused on a feedbox in the stables of a second-rate hotel in a small farming town in Israel. No, seriously. Did you ever stop to think how the Christmas story told in the Gospels would sound if it […]
Tags: Christianity, Christmas, creche, holidays, Jesus, nativity, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 3 September 2009 in Uncategorized |
∞
I am on a crusade to de-clutter my house, which means that there is a lot of sorting and evaluating going on in my life right now. One of the biggest sources of clutter in my life is books. I love books. Almost any genre, any subject, any age. I like to hold them, touch […]
Tags: books, Christianity, cleaning, clutter, decluttering, encouragement, Hansi, Hilter Youth, Jesus, LibraryThing, Maria Anne Hirschmann, Nazi, Philosophy, Religion, Spire Comics, True Stories, works salvation
Christians Behaving Badly
I have a lot of friends who are wait-staff. They frequently tell me how much they hate working Sunday lunch, because the church crowd are bad tippers. They speak of people who eat a nice meal, pay the bill, and walk out of the restaurant without leaving a tip. Or, worse, they leave only a […]
Tags: character, Christianity, church, customer service, etiquette, food, Jesus, kindness, news, Religion, respect, Work Life