A free downloadable pdf chapter from the book “The Anonymous God: The Church Confronts Civil Religion And American Society” is available at: http://www.cph.org/pdf/124257.pdf. The chapter is “Polytheism: The New Face of American Civil Religion” The history of Civil Religion in our country is fascinating.… Read the rest

From “For What do We Give Thanks?” by Adrian Rogers And what should we our thanks be for? For all things! Thank God for your faith, for your friends, for your food, and for the water you drink? You may ask, “Do I have to thank God for dirty dishes?”… Read the rest

In AOL Instant Messenger, there is an aimbot that you can chat with called SmarterChild. It’s just like any other user, except he’s not a real person. He’s a computer program. It’s lots of fun to chat with him and see what he says.… Read the rest

Back in college before I would go to Karate class, I would listen to LL Cool J’s “Mamma Said Knock You Out” to psych me up. My favorite part of the song was when he said, I gotta thank God, cuz He gave me the strength to rock hard.… Read the rest

Europeans lowercase ‘Christ’: New grammar rule says word to be spelled with small ‘c’ in future (I’ll post the full article in the comments) I don’t quite understand this. So if they mention Jesus Christ, they still capitalize it, because that is the name of a person.… Read the rest

This is part seven of the metaphor about how God is the center of a Christian’s life. (For background, you can view the rest of this series) As the planets while turning on their own axis, yet revolve round the sun; so while we do our part in our own worldly sphere, God is to be the center of all our desires.… Read the rest

This is part six of the metaphor about how God is the center of a Christian’s life. (For background, you can view the rest of this series) Now once God has saved us, we have his Holy Spirit. We may start to stray off the path of rotating around God now and then, but the great and powerful Holy Spirit keeps us on orbit.… Read the rest

This is part five of the metaphor about how God is the center of a Christian’s life. (For background, you can view the rest of this series) Some thoughts on day and night in this metaphor. One might try to say that we should not be spinning at all.… Read the rest

This is part four of the metaphor about how God is the center of a Christian’s life. (For background, you can view the rest of this series) Again, imagine actually being a planet. Spin around in circles and also revolve around something.… Read the rest