Category: faith

Horray for Christian energy drinks

I know Thomas will love this one. Oh brother. A Christian energy drink?!

From the press release that came out last November:

1in3Trinity brings a bold attitude to an existing market, encouraging everyone who purchases their products to live out their faith.

1in3Trinity Launches First Faith Inspired Energy Drink
Southlake, TX, November 28, 2006 –(PR.com)– Faith-inspired company, 1in3Trinity, is proud to announce their latest product extension to their signature, branded line of Christian clothing and accessories. In response to a growing market, 1in3Trinity has launched the first faith-based energy drink under the label 1in3Trinity Energy Drink.
“We are hopeful that 1in3Trinity will change the energy drink landscape,” says Dawn Pencil Marzka, Director of Business Development. “Not only are we offering a great tasting beverage, but an opportunity for the consumer to extend a positive message into the community. We really feel that 1in3Trinity Energy Drink offers positive energy with every sip!”

Check the website so you can get filled up with “positive energy”

Reaching the lost

Churchrelevance has 10 questions with Lifechurch.tv pastor Craig Groeschel.

“Reaching lost people has been the best way to reach more lost people. When people who are already “churched” come to church, they generally know other Christians. When someone who doesn’t know Christ comes to church and meets Christ, they are passionate about introducing their friends to Him, as well.”

Love that quote – if we could all get that passionate we could see the world turned upside down. I’m not talking about banging on every door in the neighborhood, I’m talking about living out our faith each and every day. Awesome.

Billy Graham released from hospital

After nearly a two week stay, Billy Graham is going home.

The Charlotte-born evangelist was admitted to the hospital, 20 minutes from his home, in the wee hours of Aug. 18 because of intestinal bleeding. He had two more episodes while at the hospital, but none since doctors cauterized the bleeding in Graham’s colon Aug. 22.
“We have been pleased that he has been able to come back from this incident as well as he has,” Dr. Lucian Rice, Graham’s personal physician, said today. “He will continue to have therapy at home, and I feel that he can have a very good recovery.”

Re: 5-Star service at church

The challenges continue…. Craig Groeschel writes today that at the resort he and his wife stayed in, when they were looking for something, they were never pointed in a direction. Whomever they asked, stopped what they were doing and actually walked them to their destination.

When someone walks into our churches, they don’t have a clue where to go. Instead of pointing towards the two-year-old room, or toward the bathroom, or toward the small group booth, we should stop what we’re doing and walk them all the way to where they’re going. Who knows? We might make a difference… or even make a new friend.

Looks like we can expect two more challenges before the week is over.

Have a little faith

In the August edition of Roads & Bridges, David Matthews looks at the finer points of driving according to “God’s law.”
In case you missed it, a woman was recently taken to court after she lead police on a three-mile chase down the Ohio turnpike after they tried to pull her over for breast-feeding her seven-month-old child – while driving.
Her defense – her husband told her to. Apparently driving and breast-feeding would save time.
Why the three-mile chase? She was waiting for instructions from her husband and he told her to only pull over in a public area with witnesses.
What if her husband said to jump off a bridge? According to the First Christian Fellowship – she’d have to.
The church strongly teaches that the husband is the head of the household and is given control over his wife’s actions — and held responsible for them.

Therefore, remaining true to his faith, Barnhill insisted at his wife’s trial that he should be tried for her actions. Donkers was convicted anyway, but this past April those convictions were overturned due to mistakes made by lower court judges. There is no word yet on how the judges’ husbands will be punished.

I wonder what leads people to that kind of self-sacrifice that they will only do what another person tells them to. What leads a woman (or man) to believe they have no control over themselves? It seems to me that they turn into robots at that point.
Yet, how many times do we read in Scripture that we are to give control of ourselves over to God and His will – and still we fight and fight and fight for control.
Here’s a woman who has given full control and responsibility to her husband, yet I have trouble letting go of things and giving control to the Creator of the Universe. The Alpha and Omega. The Great I Am.
I think this woman may have misdirected her faith – but she’s maybe she can teach us a lesson on what it means to fully surrender to God.

1 Peter 2:11-12 “Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.“