Nov
14
A Important Question Reemerges
November 14, 2007 | 3 Comments
What is the Kingdom of God? Where is it? How does one enter it? Jesus spoke about it constantly and said many wonderful things about it being present now and about it transforming life as we know it. He told parable after parable that started with “the Kingdom of God is like…” giving glimpses of [...]
Jul
11
Cheap Airfare
July 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I found this site this morning and really wanted to share it. If you are looking for good airfares check out the site below. It’s the backbone search engine for sites such as Orbitz.com and CheapTickets.com. This is probably what most travel agents use as well.
This site doesn’t book flights, rather it helps you find [...]
Feb
10
Bono’s Speech
February 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Bono recently spoke at the National Day of Prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C. A full transcript can be found here.
Two things stick out strongly to me:
Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing.
Get involved in what God is doing - because it’s already blessed.
and Bono’s call for the government to give 1% more to the [...]
Sep
15
Robbing from the rich…that’s us.
September 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Dave commented:
Speaking though as an American, the underlying question so many people have when giving their time is “what’s in it for me?” and I would argue that 63% of the time that those people would not say “fulfillment of my spiritual needs,” rather it’s “how much is this going to put into my [...]
Sep
15
Online giving - person to person
September 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The USA Today ran an article the other day about new types of online giving options.
The neat thing about these sites (a few below):
ModestNeeds.org
AdoptAClassroom.com
GlobalGiving.com
SpiritOfAmerica.net
Is that instead of a giving a general amount to some charity (which is great!), this site lets you fund specific projects and fulfill those needs. It’s called “person-to-person philanthropy” [...]