Thursday, December 18, 2008

I am so thankful for the grace of God that has been imputed into my life. I consider the matchless majesty of Jesus and I realize my need for a Savior.

Luke 2:11-14 says, "11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, 14 “Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

Ephesians 2:8-10
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

You can Learn Something from Charlie Brown

This is what Christmas all about, Charlie Brown

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Christianity In American Culture


John Piper writes:
"We will not have succeeded if we are known as a friendly place. And we will not have succeeded if we are known as an unfriendly place. We will be on our way to true success if we are known as a people besotted (head over heals, infatuated, radical, smitten, obsessed) with the glory of God. If our children speak of the glory of God. If our young people love the glory of God more than the glory of sport or music or fashion. If our career people pursue the glory of God more than the glory of financial success. If our older people rejoice in the hope of the glory of God just over the horizon.

Almost everything in American culture threatens this radically serious, God-centered passion to see and savor and show the glory-the greatness and beauty and worth of the full range of his perfections, his eternal being and unchanging character, his independence and self-sufficiency and holiness, his infinite power and wisdom and goodness and justice and wrath and mercy and patience and grace and love. Almost everything in American culture threatens to make our devotion and our services and our mind and our heart shallow and casual and chatty and-our most favorite blessing of choice-fun."


The question has to be asked, "Is American culture conducive for Christianity?" Where do Christians fit in this fast paced, free living, money making, American Dream culture? You only have to read the gospels to discover that Jesus' teachings contradict mainstream American culture. We all need to examine this subject as we seek to make Jesus Famous in a culture that seems to disinterested with the church and content with their stuff.