Christmas Funny

My niece, Ella, just a few minutes ago:

"I tricked Santa Claus this year. He thought I was good, and I wasn't."

I hope you've had a very Merry Christmas!!!

Remember the Persecuted

This Christmas, while we in America are enjoying the last vestiges of religious freedom and tolerance, don't forget the millions of persecuted Christians around the world:

• Christian bookstore owner arrested in communist China
• Anti-Christian TV leads to violence by Muslims in Turkey
• Hindu mobs threaten the safety of Christians in India
• Political party promises persecution if elected in India
  
• Christians murdered and churches burned down in Nigeria
• Teenagers beheaded for being Christians in Indonesia
• Prominent Christian leader murdered in Gaza
• Two shootings, just hours apart, in Colorado
  

And these are the stories from just three websites for just the month of December!!!

I'm on iTunes :|

The chapel message I gave at The Master's College last month has been added to the "Chapel @ TMC" podcast--it's really weird being on the worldwide web for everyone on the planet to hear.

In order to download this sermon, subscribe here or go the the iTunes music store in iTunes, type "chapel tmc" in the search field in the upper right. The podcast will be the first one that comes up. Click the podcast's picture and then click "Get Episode."

P.S. I'd also suggest you download and listen to Francis Chan's message right under mine on the power of the Holy Spirit. It was extremely good!

Don't Waste Your Life

I preached last week on John 17:4-5, giving the wonderful people in my young adults' ministry 3 Ways to Avoid the Distracted Life by looking at Jesus' life, which was totally obsessed with the glory of God.

While working on that message I was constantly being reminded of one of the best sermons I've ever heard, Dr. John Piper's "Don't Waste Your Life" (you can read and download the sermon here).

I actually bought the book that comes with the DVD of the sermon, and it is so good. After I spoke for a little while we watched half the sermon tonight, and will watch the other half on Jan. 1st as we assess the direction of our lives on the day many make resolutions for the coming year.

Fox News Questions Mormons

Thank you to Between Two Worlds for making me aware of this FoxNews.com article, 21 Questions Answered About Mormon Faith, and that Rob Bowman responded to the article here.

Mac Addicted Bibliophiles Listen Up!!!

For those of you addicted to books like I am and are enamored with Apple computers as I am, there is a library program I have to make you aware of, which I just learned about a couple hours ago, called Bookpedia (download a free version here, but eventually you'll have to pay $20 for it, which you can do here).

As someone who has a list of all his books in a couple 20+ page Word documents it may take some time to upload my books, but Wow is it an amazing program to catalog and categorize everything!