Wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! I am also thinking about the Harold Ober family. Harold died Christmas Eve at 8:04 pm. I’m kind of jealous because he actually gets to see Jesus face to face while the rest of us are stuck looking at plastic Baby Jesus’ with light bulbs stuck in its back...

Alex and Brett Harris, twin brothers of Joshua Harris (I Kissed Dating Goodbye), pastor of Covenant Life Church (formerly pastored by C.J. Mahaney [The Cross Centered Life]), have called for a REBELUTION! They write: “Most people don’t expect you to understand what we’re going to tell you i...

The David Crowder* Band has started tracking for a new album. I am super pumped. Why? 1. Because I am huge Crowder fan. 2. They say on their myspace page, “I think its going to be pretty great. We are still sort of on the front end of things, but I firmly believe, in my heart of hearts, that this is on...

The Whoredom of Israel Have you ever been called a whore? I know I haven’t. I can’t even recall myself even calling someone a whore. I have heard other people call somebody else a whore. The word itself just has such a horrible connotation anyway! You might as well call someone a bitch and get it...

Thursday afternoon, one our senior’s past away after an accident at work. Here is the email from our Pastor on the situation: Yesterday we lost one of our most saintly members Cliff Mast. Cliff died in a work-related accident late yesterday afternoon. His three daughters Debbie, Carol and Cindy are in...

I was just reading boygeniusreport.com and saw that Pandora for Blackberry was released this morning. Check out the article here! One thing that they didn’t say was what phones are being allowed to use it. Here is a list: Bold (AT&T) Curve 8310 (AT&T) Curve 8320 (AT&T) Curve 8330 (Veri...

@ahhyeah posted this on Twitter and it got me thinking. How much of a box do we have God in? And where has our traditions come from? Would you be comfortable going to a church like this? And if not, why? AKPC_IDS += "178,";Popularity: 1% [?]Share/Save

Wednesday night I closed the lid to my Macbook, left the church and headed home. Never did I think that when I got home and opened the lid was it going to freeze up and I was going to have to hard restart it. But that’s what happened. I have done this before and it always restarts, except this time. I...

Have you seen these books yet? I am currently reading “On Who is God?” These are short books (around 90 pages) and they will be covering a series of topics. Check them out and let me know what you think? AKPC_IDS += "137,";Popularity: 1% [?]Share/Save

Click the picture for pictures from Grandma Helen’s 80th surprise birthday party! AKPC_IDS += "134,";Popularity: 1% [?]Share/Save

The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way—to understand the timeless truth of God’s Word as a powerful, compelling, life-changing reality. To accomplish this, the ESV Study Bible combines the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly...

Iowa’s American Hockey League team will now be called the Iowa Chops, the team announced this afternoon. The team’s new logo is a vicious boar’s head and the new colors are crimson, grey and black, designed to depict the tougher style of hockey coming to Iowa, according to a team release. I...

how bad things got in the 1st century. Jude 17-18 say: “But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” I mean how bad did things get in the 1st c...

10. Steve Jobs owns 7% of Disney shares. 9. Slim and fit. 8. Can run at variable speeds and not overheat or shut down. 7. Constantly setting the trend for everyone. 6. Can record and playback through his in-screen camera and mic. 5. Even when is motherboard when down, he still kept running. 4. Battery only n...

POSTED: 5:35 pm CDT June 24, 2008 UPDATED: 6:48 pm CDT June 24, 2008 Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say the...

I am listening to a sermon by Beau Hughes from The Village Church called “Gospel Contextualization”. This is one of the most eye opening messages that I have heard in a long time. What he is talking about right now is the decline of Christianity in the United States. This church is in Denton, TX...

Well I don’t know if this is going to post and I don’t know if this is because of a plugin that I uploaded to my ftp but I can use a mobile interface now on my BlackBerry 8130 to post to my website. I may have just unlocked a golden nugget for my web experience. Now if wordpress would create an a...

So I have been reading through the book of Jude the last week or so and I really have been intrigued by it. I really don’t know why because it is one of the shortest books of the Bible with only one chapter. Really, how much content could be in there right? So anyway books of the Bible for me I know ...

The Des Moines Register just posted aerial photos of the flooding in Des Moines as of this morning. Click here to see those. Click here to see pictures from Iowa City, IA. Click here to see a picture of our intern (pics 1-6) at Saylorville Baptist Church. AKPC_IDS += "116,";Popularity: unranked [?]Share/Sa...

Well I just got out of a meeting with Pastors Pat, Abe, and Mark and the hairy intern Ben. What was it about you ask. Welp we are in the process of creating a book that works with our Children’s curriculum and our bible memorization program that we are current revamping. So if you could be praying for ...