At the end of the year my kids get a trophy from their gymnastics coach. Not because they can climb the rope and ring the bell. Not because they can do a roundoff or back handspring. Nope. They get a trophy for trying.
The deadline for submitting nominations to the Norwegian Nobel Prize committee was February… 
Posts Tagged ‘politics & america’
President Obama Rewarded For Effort. No Injustice Here.
Adam Smith Was Wrong
Scotland has given a lot to the world. The Baycity Rollers, Sean Connery, Braveheart and Adam Smith.
At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, during the Age of Enlightenment, Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations. It’s earned him the title “father of economics” and it greatly influenced the founders of America with its argument that free…
(Not So) Famous Quotations
Who said this?
#1 “My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized [his enemies] for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as…
This Isn’t Veterans Day
At church yesterday all those who have served in America’s military forces were asked to stand and be applauded.
This morning I caught a few minutes of a conservative talk radio show. Listeners were encouraged to call in and thank those currently enlisted in the military.
But this isn’t Veterans Day.
Veterans Day is red, white and blue;…
Our Witness
This guy’s doing it all wrong.
He’s the pastor of a church in Kolkata, India that’s partnering with Compassion International – he says to “serve” kids in his community.
Pete and I saw a lot of unchurchy stuff going on at this church. We saw kids exercising.
They were reading and writing.
Kids were learning how to make things…
Phil Vischer’s Jesus
“The Christians my grandparents admired – D.L. Moody, R.G. LeTourneau, Bill Bright – were fantastically enterprising. The Rockefellers of the Christian world. Occasionally I would read about different sorts of Christians that would confuse me, like, say, Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa seemed like a great woman, but her approach struck me as highly inefficient. …
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
