Let’s get organized!

I would like to see the Fourth Baptist Young Adults get more of an organization in 2009.
Kathee and I count it a joy to work and fellowship with 4BYA. My prayer is that 4BYA would be a young adult led fellowship.
I propose that in 2009 we have a young adult council comprised of three 4BYA [...]

Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?

JP: Worthwhile read. The Apostles’ Creed’s central doctrines are those of the Trinity and God the Creator.
All Monotheisms Are Not Alike: How the Apostles’ Creed can sharpen our dialogue with Muslims.
Excerpts:
Despite undeniable similarities, all monotheisms are not alike. Love notes that many Muslims who later become followers of Christ say that they worshiped the true [...]

One man’s Reader’s Digest version of why I am a Christian

JP: I thought this was a good read (see caveat below the blockquote).
Answering the Atheists – A Reader’s Digest version of why I am a Christian
Excerpts:
Let’s face it: Atheism is in. Not since Nietzsche have disbelievers enjoyed such a ready public reception to their godless message—and such near-miraculous royalties. But even that hasn’t put them [...]

God Give Us Willing Hearts

JP: Good read by Warren Vanhetloo.
God Give Us Willing Hearts
Jesus strongly condemned religious teachers of His day for being concerned about legalistic trivia, such as tithing garden produce while ignoring serious teachings of the Old Testament (Matt. 23:23). He emphasized that difference already in His first extended public sermon, after which the people expressed astonishment [...]

Come Ye Thankful People Come

JP: Vicki Sprouse comments on Thanksgiving. Worthwhile read. Five Kernels of Corn, referenced below, is a must read!
Come Ye Thankful People Come
Excerpts:
I love Thanksgiving…the sights, the smells, the sounds and most importantly the meaning. There is something beautiful about late Fall when all the leaves have fallen off the trees, the first hard [...]

Thanksgiving thoughts

Norman Rockwell’s Ye Glutton (1923)
Copyright © 1923 Life Magazine
JP: Image from best-norman-rockwell-art.com
I found this article interesting:
The First Thanksgiving
The most detailed description of the “First Thanksgiving” comes from Edward Winslow from A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, in 1621:
“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after [...]

Reference Rainbow: “It almost looks like one monolithic volume”

JP: Interesting graphic illustrating the interconnectivity of the Bible. Click image for a larger view with explanation.

National Science Foundation: 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
The first illuminated bibles were produced in the early Middle Ages by monks who painstakingly detailed illustrations for their sacred verse. Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon [...]

Let Us Give Thanks

JP: a Thanksgiving prayer by Dr Kevin Bauder.
EYXAPIΣTΩMEN – Let Us Give Thanks
O Father of lights, with Whom is neither variableness nor shadow of turning, from Your hand receive we every gift, each one good and perfect. Naught have we of our own; nothing do we possess that we were not given. Our open [...]

There are no new heresies, only echoes of the old ones

JP: Good ready by Albert Mohler who comments on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Divinity School Address.
Echoes of Old Heresies Still Among Us — A Visit to Divinity Hall
Excerpts:
The date was July 15, 1838, the place was the chapel of Divinity Hall at Harvard, and the speaker was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson had been asked to [...]

BJU issues statement on race

JP: Worthwhile read. I commend the leadership of Bob Jones University for this fine statement.
Statement about Race at Bob Jones University
Excerpts:
At Bob Jones University, Scripture is our final authority for faith and practice and it is our intent to have it govern all of our policies. It teaches that God created the human race [...]