https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HStKxO27Oos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vHedm6ycsY
Michael W. Smith--"Secret Ambition"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfHfTKdYwvY
Carman--"The Champion"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIJfLfzZ0w
Every time I start to believe that my faith is changing or even disappearing, Easter rolls around again. I know that one of the most unlikely stories in the Bible is buried deep in my heart. I believe it's true.
Christ is risen, y'all!
I like Pope Francis I.
His openness to sexual-orientation minorities and his solicitude toward the poor are in marked contrast to the hard-line intransigence more characteristic of past Pontiffs. Church teachings about abortion, birth control – the “life” issues generally – and such matters as women’s ordination and same-sex marriage remain substantially unchanged. (I say “substantially” because, even on some of these issues, the Pope’s recent statements have been interestingly nuanced. God – so to speak – is in the details.) Bill Maher often says he strongly suspects that Pope Francis – “Pope Frank” as Maher sometimes calls him – is actually a closet atheist. (I think Maher is only half serious about such statements. But the operative word is “half”: I do think Maher is half s...