Jenny raised an important consideration in her comment. She raised the concept of “me time.” As Christians our lives are to be centered on bringing honor to the name of God in all that we do. (I Cor. 10:31; Col. 3:17, etc.) Our culture inundates us with the idea that our first need is to care for ourselves.
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The Shepherd Press Blog: Facebook & Friends
Joe added you as a friend on Facebook. We need to confirm that you know Joe in order for you to be friends on Facebook.
This is the message one receives when someone requests to be added as a friend on Facebook. As I mentioned earlier, the average Facebook account about has 100 friends. Many have much higher friend totals.
The Shepherd Press Blog: It’s Just Facebook
There is a tendency to follow the world’s lead and see life as a mixture of the profound and the mundane – to contrast the exciting, meaningful, fun parts of life with the normal, dull, daily grind parts of life. For many this is the contrast between “chilling” or “hanging out” and doing something that really matters.
The Shepherd Press Blog: Post Only What is Helpful
Facebook, then, gives you these two options: you can leave a trail of rotten communication that points directly back to you, or you can leave a trail of words, comments and thoughts that point directly to Christ and his mercy. Which trail would you like to create? This is a question that you may not ignore.
The Shepherd Press Blog: Facebook and You
Now we have a biblical platform upon which to construct an understanding of Facebook and the other online social utilities. Let’s look at some specifics. The first thing one is asked when logging on to Facebook is what are you doing right now? You are supposed to tell all of the people in your social network what you are doing.
Book Review: Heaven by Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn’s book Heaven changed my thinking.
→ Read the rest Like for many others, trying to imagine what Heaven will be like was difficult for me. The Bible tells us a great deal about Heaven, but I think we often miss most of it because we are too often plagued by the influence what Alcorn calls Christoplatonism. He stresses the reoccurring theme of the renewal of Creation and gives us pause to ponder the possibilities of what God has in store for us in Heaven.
Daily Bible reading plans for 2009
I was up early this morning and found this website while reading Justin Taylor’s blog. From it, you can setup your Bible reading plan to view:
- from a webpage
- in an RSS reader where each day the text of the reading would appear in an RSS feed
- via email where the text of each day’s reading would be delivered to your email
- you can also download an .ics
What Should We Pray For?
Our family is focusing on our prayer life for 2009. We are always looking for ways to help us be effective in prayer. Pastor John posted this help on the DG blog recently:
→ Read the rest One way to answer this question is to look at what the early church prayed for. Here is a list gathered from the New Testament.
The best lessons of 2008
As the year comes near to a close, I am reflecting on the things that I am most thankful for. To use the proverbial expression, “…drinking from a firehose…” it is difficult to cull my list to just a couple of items. However, the exercise of summarizing the year to just a few bullet points helps me focus on the essence of what I learned from the past year that I can carry with me to the coming one. → Read the rest
Hopeful Post-Christmas Melancholy: Desiring God
Desiring God blog reposted this entry from last year. It was written by Jon Bloom and gives great perspective on post-Christmas emotions.
→ Read the rest Each year Christmas night finds members of my family feeling some melancholy. After weeks of anticipation, the Christmas celebrations have flashed by us and are suddenly gone. And we’re left standing, watching the Christmas taillights and music fade into the night.