Baby Back Ribs with Lemon Confit Marinade First off, go here to find a great list of the winners of the first awards for best evangelical blogs, including my friend Mark Roberts. Now, on to more cooking, chopping, and grating. Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised … Continue reading More Yummy Church Cooking

Jamie Oliver has never seen a recipe like ours! In the several weeks I have been blogging, I have been carefully avoiding the largest issue in the spiritual life of our family. You see, we Norris family are a somewhat, sad yet hopeful, wandering yet found, happy yet pessimistic, conflicted yet at-peace bunch. We are, … Continue reading Recipe of a Homeless Churchie

I submitt this, as a retort to those who say I am humorless, and do not provide sufficient discussion of ways in which to survive percarious natural hazards.

By the NFL's desire to be more wholesome than apple pie, and by the grace of God, we are delivered from aberrant halftime show drivel this year! I also must thank the Lord for the invention of the Digital Video Recorder (DVR) which allowed our family to have a relatively normal day at soccer games … Continue reading Hey Jude, No Wardrobe Malfunctions!

I just read a wonderful story about the meek, and their inheritance of the earth. The author is Carolyn Arends (a Canadian - to whom I am partial, because I married one), a song writer from British Columbia, whose work I admire for being real, honest, and God-honoring. Go have a look, and read a … Continue reading Carolyn Arends – The Bargain

This is worthy of reading and reflection. In a world increasingly set upon the idea that "God is dead", our children have much to teach us - about Him.

In March of 1956, Winston Church gave a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri with this remarkable quote: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, … Continue reading Can God Move Mountains, or Walls?

From John 15:12 - My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. My more liberal friends will excuse me for a moment if I offer this. Tonight's State of the Union was one of the … Continue reading Greater Love Has No One Than This……

Daily Thought from John Stott: Instinctively we know that we cannot box God up in any conceptual framework of our own devising, and that if we think we have succeeded in doing so, then what we have in our box is not God. Our little minds cannot conceive him, let alone contain him. '"For my … Continue reading God In a Box – And Our Need

As all seven of you readers know, I have randomly touched here on the concept of a "Dead Church", working from one of my favorite books - "The Death of the Church". And now, my friend, Tod Bolsinger has this post which begins to touch on the issue of real Christian Community - having the … Continue reading Dead Church Part Trois