Joshua One Ministries

In a few days I will turn 53. According to the charts, as a 53-year-old U.S. white male, I have 26 years to go. So the question for me is, is the glass two-thirds empty or one-third full?
I don’t fear death. My attitude toward death wavers between, “When it happens, it happens,” and “Bring it [...]

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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia: Fear of the number 666, because of its connection to the Beast in Revelation 13:18.
I avoid the number 666 about two-thirds of the time (that’s a mathematical pun).
I file this tidbit under the “Strange World” category, not because some people fear the number 666. That’s silly, but not necessarily strange. What’s strange is that [...]

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An Oklahoma pastor-blogger and other like-minded Baptist bloggers are credited for the surprise election of Frank Page as the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Tuesday the Southern Baptists elected as their president Dr. Frank Page, 53, pastor of First Baptist Church, a megachurch in Taylors, S.C. Page was chosen over two more familiar candidates. [...]

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Christian football movie gets a PG-rating because it puts too much emphasis on Jesus Christ.

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Christian Carnival 126 is up, hosted this week by NerdFamily.com (no kidding).
It’s been a while since we participated in the weekly Christian blog carnival, but I thought Rod’s interesting piece on “Why Men Hate Going to Church” deserves a wider audience, so we submitted that piece.
There are about three dozen articles in Christian Carnival 126, covering [...]

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Entertainment Weekly has listed the “25 Most Controversial Movies Ever.” No. 1 on the list: The Passion of the Christ. Other Christ-related movies on the list include The Last Temptation of Christ (No. 7) and The Da Vinci Code (No. 13).
Many of the movies are listed because of their X-rated sexual content (Deep Throat, I [...]

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I recently read David Murrow’s book, Why Men Hate Going to Church (2004, Thomas Nelson, Inc.). Despite the book’s numerous faults, Murrow has made one of the most important observations of this decade about church practices.

Let’s get the negative out of the way first, and then get to substance. Murrow’s publisher should have brought in [...]

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