Saw this article today floating around and thought I would share it with you, my friendly, faithful, and good looking readers. The Evangelical Manifesto [ link ] Are labels useful? Do they help? Was this manifesto necessary?
Breaking news just out of Rome this morning... Vatican Adds Seven New Deadly Sins Including Abortion, Contraception and Drug-Dealing [ link ] Just 14 deadly sins? And here I was foolishly thinking that scripture states all sin is deadly and that the penalty for all sin is death. Boy am I glad this has been cleared up!
Yesterday I decided to look for two new Bibles, one for myself and an illustrated one for my daughter. We have been doing evening devotions with L for a while out of a book M bought some time ago but also thought it would be a great idea to get a Bible we could all read together, besides....I am sure I will learn something in the process. Shopping for Bibles is exciting. Have you been Bible shopping lately? The Christian stores are huge now, the selections greater than ever, the colors, the bindings, the choices......and I thought purchasing a digital camera was difficult? The Bible section was to the left of the door and took up the entire length of one wall, a virtual floor to ceiling wave of God's word in KJV, NKJV, NIV, ESV, ASV, NLT, AMPLIFIED!!!, and on and on. And the colors? Red, Burgundy, Navy, Green, Black, two tone, silver in your choice of bindings....calf-skin, leather, leatherette. I haven't even touched on the different types of Bibles, life application, study, reference...