by ray | Jan 2, 2011 | Current Events
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats....
by ray | Dec 24, 2010 | Current Events
Who will I miss, how have I spent my life, and am I ready for what happens next? ~Philip Yancey CNN: In your book, you say your near-death experience forced you to think of three questions: Who will I miss, how have I spent my life, and am I ready for what happens...
by ray | Dec 24, 2010 | Current Events
I believe God has a dream for people today. It’s just not the same as the American Dream. I believe God is saying to us that real success is found in radical sacrifice. That ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of him. That...
by ray | Dec 23, 2010 | Christmas, Current Events, NT, Topical Studies
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9XNfWNooz4&fs=1&hl=en_US] iBand Chorus – Using only iPads and iPhones, a group of musicians rocked North Point Community Church in Apharetta, Georgia, to the sounds of the season. While banging away on keys, drums and...
by ray | Sep 13, 2010 | Other Ministries, Social Justice
Last week, I met some of the most beautiful people… Lisa and I flew to Nashville to film a television show that raised awareness for the 140 million orphans in the world (www.cryoftheorphan.org). There we met couples that had adopted several kids out of difficult...
by ray | Aug 5, 2010 | Current Events
Here is an article written by secular humanist and writer Christopher Hitchens (who wrote “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” in 2007) about his own battle with cancer on Sept 2010. I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like...