Coffee

I have come to the woeful conclusion that... I drink to much coffee. When a person can drop 10 points off their blood pressure by going 24 hours without it’s time to throttle back a bit.

Quote of the Week 3/26

"The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men."

Karl Barth 1886-1965

Evangelical teens rally in S.F.

"they're loud, they're obnoxious, they're disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco." (link) Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco

Afghan on trial for Christianity

An Afghan man is being tried in a court in the capital, Kabul, for converting from Islam to Christianity.

Abdul Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and could face the death sentence under Sharia law unless he recants. (link)

"The Prophet Muhammad has said several times that those who convert from Islam should be killed if they refuse to come back," says Ansarullah Mawlafizada, the trial judge.

"Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, kindness and integrity. That is why we have told him if he regrets what he did, then we will forgive him," he told the BBC News website. (link)

Update:
There is no reason for the Afghan courts to sully their hands when they can let him go (link) (link) and let a mob get a hold of him. -PAK

Quote of the Week 3/12

If something is not true according to the Scriptures, should we as Christians want anything to do with it, regardless of how much we get from it? If the price of happiness is the violation of God's word, and we are willing to pay that price, then we have revealed ourselves as worshippers not of God, but ourselves.

Rut Etheridge III

Quote of the Week 3/5

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis; 1898-1963