Everyone and his dog seem to be blogging about the Ashley Smith: “the Angel from God” story and about the book, The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?.

Hennessey View shares a moving story of how the story is helping him recall the pain of his own loss of his daughter and to begin a journey back to his earlier faith in God by embarking on the 40-day challenge in The Atlanta Killer and His Savior.

Many of the posts are positive, but some are critical about the way that people are glibly attributing to God events that He wasn’t responsible for. Or they are casting doubts about God’s hand in the events, asking why some Christians choose to be selective in praising God for some things and not for others.

Surprisingly (at least to me), it seems some Christians are Read the rest of this entry »

I recently received an email from friends of mine who minister to professionals and young adults. They wrote me about a recent weekend retreat they conducted for young professionals committed to being “marketplace ministers�.

Apparently they found that many were confused about their role as Christians in the marketplace, and how to balance their commitment to their Lord with their enthusiasm for their professional life and work.

As they talked about this during the weekend, they realized that the confusion boiled down to the confusion between one’s occupation and one’s career. Even dictionaries seem to define “career� as “occupation�

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Previously, I blogged about my current jobless state and how it has rattled my cage.

I have been mostly silent about this whole process over here at my blog the last few days, but the emotional roller-coaster has been throwing me around, tossing me about and driving me nuts.

Last week was especially bad.

I had seemingly exhausted all known leads for possible job prospects and none had gone past the "phone-interview" phase.

In fact, by Tuesday I was almost convinced that I was truly unemployable and that I had to make some drastic decisions about my future and my family’s well-being.

And I mean drastic.

Drastic but ill-advised and possibly, dumb.

My logic was off-balanced by my depression, but even in that grasping-on-to-the-straws state, I hung on to the

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This week’s Christian Carnival promises to be another smorgasbord of Christian blogfest. Stephen at ChristDot has gathered the posts under three broad categories: Discussions, Blessings and Lessons.

I submitted my reflection on Depression and Spiritual Healing and it is grouped under lessons, although it could also be counted as a blessing… Hmmmm… now that I think about it, perhaps this is the clue why I seldom get comments on my posts…

There are quite a wide range of topics submitted for this week’s Christian Carnival, from In the Spirit of Grace’s lessons on spiritual potty training to my erstwhile King of the Blog “rival” Randomness (there were three of us vying for that crown that week, the ultimate winner, the beautiful and the bad (yours truly). She’s the beautiful one) with her submission on why we need God.

There are a host of other interesting submissions. One that caught my eye is a submsision which is part of a series from just a litte bit odd on reasons why people are leaving churches to find God elsewhere.

I haven’t had the time to check them all out yet, so doubtlessly, there are many other good posts and new sites for you to discover.

The Christian Carnival is a weekly series of “Christians” posts submitted and showcased in “carnival” style by a host. You can find good reads from the Carnival as well as find good new, sites to add to your blogging addiction, I mean, reading, or enjoyment, or whatever…

Go, put up your feet, top up that cuppa, prop that pillow up, clip that Cuban (or whatever you do to prime yourself up for a good blog-feast) and enjoy!

While enjoying my morning cuppa today, I was doing a little blog-hopping through my long neglected bloglines subscriptions. I found a very interesting piece on taking up one’s cross at a time of war posted by Kevin Poorman at the Ekklesia Project referenced in this post by The Gutless Pacifist.

While I am not sure if I’d call myself a pacifist, I do have quite a lot of sympathies to the call to nonviolence for Christians.

What I did find was a well balanced plea for the Christian to take up his or her cross seriously and a consideration of what that means in light of a nation waging a “just war” against so-called terrorist-supporting enemy nations and regimes Read the rest of this entry »