Archive for March, 2006

Lent

Friday, March 10th, 2006

One of the Christian traditions that many evangelical Christians have never experienced is lent. While this tradition isn’t important to a person’s salvation or anything along those lines, tradition can help us prepare for big celebrations in the life of the church and see that our faith today is part of a larger story that […]

Washington Pictures

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Tuesday night, I went to the GatheringNW, a campus ministry sponsored by my DC area church on the campus of American University in their cool looking Kay Spiritual Life Center. After the service, I went into southwest DC and took some night time shots of the city. These pictures were taken between 11 and midnight, […]

Singing Songs

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Earlier today, I was reading out of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together. Bonhoeffer was a German pastor during World War II who was martyred for helping escaping Jews and opposing Hitler. I found the following passage particularly meaningful to me. It talks about the reasons for Christians singing songs together. The short of it is that […]

Government and God: Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

What should the role of Christians be in politics? That’s a very tough question to answer, because different situations call for different responses. Also, politics is an area where Christians have been granted a large amount of liberty, so it’s important to remember that different godly people have come to different conclusions here. For discussion […]

Google Picture Post

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Instructions: Use the picture you like best from the first (no clicking around for 44 pages) page of the search results on Google Image, and then answer the following questions. 1. The city and state of the town you grew up, no quotation marks. 2. The town where you currently reside. 3. You name, first […]