Athiesm in 140-Characters or Less

One of my recent favorite things to do online is to check trending topics on Twitter. It’s pretty fascinating actually. You can see what other people are talking about moment-by-moment: important news, what people are watching, and probably the most fascinating, or what people are thinking.

Right now, the #1 trending topic is “no God”. Interesting. Clicking on it shows a host of bite-sized atheistic manifestos.

Trending Topic, October 20, 2009

Really, we were all in the same boat at one point in time, proclaiming in our hearts, “There is no God” (Psalm 14). What a great reminder to take a moment and glory in the Gospel of Christ that saves unregenerate hearts. And what a reminder to be in prayer for an unredeemed world that needs the same.

Edit: Just reading some more of the tweets, and it looks like the trend was started by Christians tweeting: “No God, no peace; know God, know peace”. Somehow, I’m just not surprised.

…He Cannot Deny Himself

If we are faithless, he remains faithful–
for he cannot deny himself.
2 Timothy 2: 13

James preached from this passage yesterday, and it was like balm to my soul. I never get tired of this Gospel truth: that God’s faithfulness to us rests not our performance–His love for us is not reciprocal to ours. But His faithfulness and love for the elect rests on his own, unchanging character. What a sweet and liberating truth.

Taste of Defeat

Yeah, I lost the wager (thanks for reminding me, Cindy). But the wifey was gracious and minimized my punishment to one day of cooking. I ended up buying a Boboli crust and baking a pizza. It’s a pretty fun and simple meal to make.

1. Prepare the dough. I bought the store-ready type, but since this time, Cathie’s made a good amount of dough via our bread maker and froze it for future use. We’ve already used a few to make some pizza and they turned out great. It definitely helps to have a rolling pin though.
2. Spread out some marinara sauce. The wifey prefers her side of the pizza with a pesto sauce base.
3. Sprinkle your toppings. We’ve been using a yummy sweet sausage from Trader Joe’s, salami, mushrooms, bell peppers, tomatoes, and bacon.
4. Toss a generous helping of mozzarella cheese over the whole thing. The cheese is key, as it’s the glue to the whole thing.
5. Bake to a golden crust and lightly-browned cheese. I think we baked it at 400F for about 15 minutes.

Easy and quick. All those years of training at Papa Johns has finally paid off.

Before

After