The Commercial Church

In the fast-moving pace of today, it's easy to be swept away by all the things coming at us. We are constantly being bombarded by things trying to get our attention to either buy, read, donate, visit, watch, etc. Everything has become about how to get our attention, how to entertain us, how to get us to do something, us, us, us.

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Let Them In...

By Roger

For the past few days, there have been signs warning motorists on a road near my house that the left lane is closed ahead, so please merge to the right lane. The sign isn't worded exactly like that, because the word please isn't in the State Highway Administrations dictionary.

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Leaving It At The Door

By MAD21

A friend of mine was telling me today about how his wife was complaining about how much he talked about work (and for the record, he agreed it needed to stop). You know know what I mean. All the conversations we have when we get home from work. Like needing to unload all of the day's events out of our brains before we explode. We spend all day trying to be politically correct and professional while working around other people (or not), that when we are in the safety of our own home with the people we love, we just let it all out like taking the knot out of a balloon.

Mind you, it's not all bad that we share our day's events with our families. I, for one, like very much to hear about the events of each family member's day. But like everything in life, there is such thing as too much of a good thing. We all need to be careful that it doesn't go too far.

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Twitter-fied

By Kelly

Twitter: one of the many new online social crazes that allows an individual to update their "status" in less than 140 words via their phones and/or computers, etc. About two weeks ago, I decided to jump on the Twitter train. I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. Everyone from my sister to Miley Cyrus to- get this- Folger's coffee. Crazy, if you ask me. I played around and came to the conclusion that I did not really need Twitter; it was impractical in my texting-free cell usage, and I didn't need another online distraction, honestly. So I bade Farewell to Twitter. I don't think it misses me.

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Where Do You Belong?

I was hit with a thought tonight while I was doing my quiet time. The funny thing is, it did didn’t really have too much to do with my designated reading - it came by way of my ipod. I wasn’t paying much attention to the music playing in my headphones until I heard the line I've always known this wasn't home ring in my ears.

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