Today - Thursday, May 4 - is the National Day of Prayer. This year’s theme is “America, Honor God,” which is from 1 Samuel 2:30.
“Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and your father’s house would minister before me forever.’ But now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it [...]

This site has an interesting gallery that maps the religions of the U.S.
Map Gallery of Religion in the United States
Some of the maps included on the site are: Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Jewish, Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), Muslim, Mennonite (Amish), Unitarian and Friends (Quaker).
It’s very interesting to see where the “strongholds” for each group are.

Snippet from God’s Blog that should really make you think…
It might be fun to just everyone on pause for a bit like in that old Twilight Zone episode with the stopwatch. Only I’d be holding the stopwatch, so it wouldn’t break with everyone frozen in time. I’d put everyone on pause, download some [...]

You’ve most likely read Footprints in the Sand. Here’s a different version, via Fully Devoted.
One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
but mine were not along the shore.
But then some stranger prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord,
“What have we here?”
Those prints are large and [...]

Here’s an article from Baptist Press News entitled Think Before You Dress.
In a nutshell, the article is about how we dress for church.
I can’t help but wonder, though, what the Ruler of the Universe thinks about the attire we sometimes choose to wear when we meet together for the express purpose of worshiping Him.
It wasn’t [...]

There’s a song by the band Blindside titled Pitiful that has a couple of lines that really hit me, lyrics that make me wonder about what it was like to be there as Christ was crucified on the cross.
But I know as they hammered those nails into your beautiful hands
Your eyes they tried to search [...]

Saw this quiz on Fully Devoted.

You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan.You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God’s grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to [...]

In a recent radio interview, I was sternly asked by the host, who did not consider himself a Christian, to defend Christianity. I told him that I couldn’t do it, and moreover, that I didn’t want to defend the term. He asked me if I was a Christian, and I told him yes. [...]

A friend of mine, a young pastor who recently started a church, talks to me from time to time about the new face of church in America - about the postmodern church. He says the new church will be different from the old one, that we will be relebant to culture and the human [...]

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. . . . I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.
Such is the Author’s Note at the beginning of Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller. Excellent book, one that’s [...]