Pastors’ Blog (Page 5)
Should you oppose a strip club in your city?
Somebody is trying to open a strip club in Cincinnati. Apparently there aren’t any at the moment, which is surprising to me. Assume for a second that a strip club does indeed open in Cincinnati. Does it really matter? After all, we already have a sex-obsessed culture, and pornography is available the way water should be—ubiquitous and free. Can you think of any…
Pretty children that break after 14 years…
Bradford pear trees are pretty. In the spring they have beautiful white flowers. In the fall, the dark green leaves turn a beautiful deep red. Perfectly shaped, they grow quickly and always seem to look nice, especially lined up down a lane. There’s just one problem. They break. I remember a…
Persecution in the fine print…
It pays to be a non-profit organization. Google offers non-profits free use of Google Apps. Amazon will give .5% of my orders to the non-profit of my choice. Microsoft will provide software to non-profits at a substantial discount. However, each of these offers has certain limitations. Amazon’s fine print is fairly typical when it says, “Organizations that…