There are some churches that have an extra service if Christmas doesn’t fall on a Sunday. I’m not bothered when a church doesn’t do that. In fact, growing up, my family only went to church on Christmas if fell on Sunday. What I don’t understand is why a church would cancel a Sunday morning worship service just because it falls on Christmas.
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There are two key words in the title of this chapter: ugly, and consumerist. When I first read the title, I was expecting it to focus on the latter, which would have been a good post this week, coming out of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and continuing into the holiday shopping season. Unfortunately, the chapter focused more on the former.
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omorrow is voting day. There is a large number of Christians who don’t vote at all. There is also a large number of people in America who don’t think very carefully before they vote. Neil Mammen (who maintains noblindfaith.com) has put together some voting guidelines in his book Jesus is involved in politics!: Why aren’t You? Why isn’t your Church? Thought I’d share them with you.
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Richards argues that good intentions do not take the place of doing things right.
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On Friday, ICANN announced that they would allow the creation of a .xxx top level domain name. People have been campaigning for this for quite some time. The idea is that the internet will have a sort of red light district, and all parents need to do is block all websites that end in .xxx to protect their children from adult content. I think this would be a good idea, except for one problem.
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Reading bedtime stories to little kids is a custom that will always stay alive and exciting. These stories have a very significant part in building up the personality and values of younger generation and hence, the complete nation. Little kids tend to take their story heroes as their ideals and wish to be just like them. These stories generate, a sense of good and bad in young ones and enhances their character. This is why, it is essential to be very wise while looking for the appropriate stories to read to your kids. These stories should give a message of honesty, valor, obedience, audacity, faith and respect. The greatest book you can get for such stories is the Holy Bible. You can get many Christian books for children that tell the Jesus story and many stories from new and old testament in a very simple and inspiring way.
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I’ve been aware of this problem for some time, but something brought it to my attention recently. In the restaurant business, Christians are perceived to be the worst people to wait on. Waiters and waitresses don’t like the “after church” crowd, because they treat them worse, and tip them lower. Imagine working on a Sunday and getting paid less to work harder. I’ve always strived to overcome this stereotype, and bring it to the attention of my friends, but recently something made me angry.
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