Chris's Musings

Over the past week, I've had a couple of thoughts running through my head.  It started when I was at this Bible study and worship service at Buckhead Church with my mentor group, worshipping God with a couple thousand other singles, and thinking.... "This is something I'd better get used to." So as a result, I've noodled over Revelation 4 and 5 for the past week in my quiet times, thinking about my hundred year plan.  What is going to matter to me in a hundred years?  And I know that there are other things eternally significant, but these two jumped out. 1.) God is a really big deal.  Jesus is a really big deal... and we will spend a lot of time relishing in that fact. I'm pretty down with that, but it goes beyond Sundays with great bands that lead well.  I want my life to resonate with worship toward my creator; because He's worthy of it, not because it's the anthem of Heaven that I'll be singing in 100 years. ... and this one got me thi...

This post is not intended to be an endorsement or a criticism of any particular political (or other) philosophy, it is just an observation that I've made about our culture lately.  I'd be interested to learn if you agree or not. In the aftermath of the last election, one that Republicans should have (based on the condition of our economy) cleaned house in, the GOP has been scurrying to figure out "what went wrong?"  Was it that Mitt Romney's message didn't resonate?  Was it that Americans really did want to keep piling on more debt and social programs to our national government?  At the end of the day, the answer as to their change of strategy, which came from perceived front runners, was a little shocking for me.   I'll summarize: "We need to make conservatism 'cool.'" I know that is grossly oversimplying what they are saying, and part of me wants to say "No!  your positions are valid and that's enough!"  But then aga...