Don’t know when regular blogging will begin again - as if we were at all regular to begin with. I can’t speak for the others but for me it’s not really an issue of motivation. It’s more like I can’t wrap my head around the things I’d like to write about. So I think I’ll try to do a couple of “nothing” posts over the next few days to try to get back into the habit and see what happens. For now, read some other good stuff :

Wonder what your favorite televangelist’s New Years Resolution is? Wonder no more! One of my favorites is from Joel Osteen :

I resolve to frown at least 15 minutes each day so my smile will look genuine the rest of the time. But I will do it hanging upside down in my gravity boots so that the frown looks like a smile.

Theology for the Masses takes us on a pictorial tour of the AiG Creation Museum in Kentucky. Slightly irreverent(guess that’s why I like it) but what do you expect AiG wants you to choose between human reason and God’s word? False dichotomy, anyone?

Yes, this was the “the gays are going to clone themselves” wall (abortion wall not pictured). Apparently the only possible outcome of using your brain is that you become gay, then clone babies and kill them before they reach term. Clearly, brothers and sisters, human reason is evil and bad. How are we to stand before the terror of their cultural onslaught? Fortunately, we were then able to see some heroes who preserved God’s Word for us so that we could have good and true guidance that in no way requires us to think:

And the iMonk offers a counselor’s meditation :

I do know that my eyes are opened, again and again, to the immense pain that surrounds me in the Christian family. So many of God’s servants are hurting in their body, families, marriages and in ways I cannot label or identify.

Yet these are some of God’s best servants and most Christ-filled saints. Some of his most useful, loving people. The crucible does not need to be approved by me or you to be effective. God chooses his own instruments, preparing, sharpening and equipping them as He chooses. His agenda is Jesus. Mine would be comfort, wholeness, happiness and so forth, with Jesus as the end result. God is only interested in making us like Jesus.

So the cross, and the instruments of crucified glory, are his doing. I am a listener; an observer.