The Blog Of Dysfunction

When I stop to smell the flowers, or manage to rise up early enough to watch the sun rise, or when I go home and just sit in the garden and listen to the birds and the crickets, feel the wind in my hair and smell the damp earth, how can I help going “how great thou art” at the top of my not so great voice. I was fortunate to have parents who taught me to admire the beauty of Gods creation and to worship him for it, I hope and pray that the pulpits of our churches will someday teach us this.

Over at cerulean sanctum, Dan edelen is running a series called “Unshackling the American church”, here is a quote is from the latest article. Though the series focuses on the American church, it is clear from what we can see and hear, that this degeneration is a universal phenomenon, and I can testify that India is in it big time, I pray that the lord will raise people here to point out and battle apostasies that are now rampant in the Indian church.

“Our wholesale chasing after the culture rather than being the counterculture that holds onto meaning and sacrament left the unsaved scratching their heads as to what we really offered. If it were possible, some might contend that we who are the representatives of Christ have treated our the Lord as if he’s just some cool guy who lavishes meaning by giving us what we want….We’ve taken our own lazy lust for the cheap and cheapened our birthright as Sons of the Living God. No wonder the world looks elsewhere for meaning! If we as the Church can’t be trusted to lift up the name of Jesus, what then is truly sacred?”

Read the rest of the article.

some non related yet good posts

Calvinism bashing at Pyro

Athenians and visigoths at The Outpost (Speech By Neil Postman)