Something new for me

Today at church it was my turn in the rotation to pray in the service. It was the first time I have done this at our new church. It would have been just like any other time I have lead prayer in church except that at this church, men tend to write out the prayer [...]

Sunday prayer

Gracious father,
We praise you and thank you. We thank you for our lives, we thank you for health and the peace that we enjoy on a daily basis.
We thank you for the blessing of family, for husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters.
We thank you for the blessing of church, of covenant [...]

Living in a Post Mordor World

Today I listened to a great sermon by Douglas Jones from Christ Church of Moscow ID titled “The Culture of Fear.” I am going to listen to it again because it really gets my mind going. Mr Jones does a great job of showing how safe we really are even though our culture perceives the [...]

Worship Commons (Alpha)

Well I have taken the first steps for my idea I have had been thinking and dreaming about. I purchased the domains, installed wordpress 2.1, installed mediawiki, and loaded a placeholder on the front page of WorshipCommons.com, WorshipCommons.org, and WorshipCommons.net.
The placeholder is a saved copy of the blog about page but I changed the file [...]

How I was brought up

I love this quote from Doug Wilson about tradition. It’s so funny because this is the church that I grew up in. You could predict everything that was going to happen just before it happened but it was never written down and was just the “leading of the Holy Spirit.”
Tradition is Contrary to Our Historic [...]