Christmas facts of interest!

DID YOU KNOW…? Here are some interesting facts about the history of Christmas celebrations…conversation starters for holiday parties! The earliest evidence of the celebration on December 25 of a Christian liturgical feast of the birth of Jesus is from the Chronography of 354 AD. This was in Rome, while in Eastern Christianity the birth of Jesus was already [...]

Churches are growing weaker, CNN reports

Though we might not like to admit it, church attendance across the country is dropping.  Culture is changing, and the church needs to adapt to the needs of the people it is trying to reach.  What worked twenty years ago may not be working today.  See this article from CNN showing the decline of American [...]

Why there are still atheists

Picture this:  An atheist comes to our Q Place and shares how he has never seen evidence for God’s existence. We hear it and shake our heads vigorously and exclaim, “That’s ridiculous!  God is everywhere!  It is impossible NOT to see him!”  My guess is that this reaction wouldn’t go over so well with the [...]

An Interview with Jim and Casper

Last year at our Vital Conference we were honored to have as our emcee Jim Henderson, founder of Off The Map and co-author of Jim and Casper Go to Church, in which Matt Casper, an atheist, shares with Jim his first impressions of the churches Jim paid him to visit. In the video below, Jim [...]

A view to the other side…

So the other day I was looking for a particular video from a comedian which I thought it would be funny material for this blog.  I was quickly reminded of how crude it was, so I will spare you for now.  But what I did find was more than I bargained for.  I found perhaps [...]