Category: faith

Nation of Islam leader bids farewell

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan delivered what he called a farewell speech Sunday night in Detroit. Farrakhan is battling prostate cancer, and will turn the movement over to others.
Guess Farrakhan wasn’t too interested in the Oscars to give his speech on Sunday night.
I don’t blame him.
Hear the full report from NPR.

My Savior Lives

The encounter band played this song Sunday. Never heard it before but I love it.

My Savior My God Aaron Shust lyrics
Artist: Aaron Shust
Album: Anything Worth Saying
Year: 2005

I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at His right hand
Stands one who is my Savior

I take Him at his word and deed
Christ died to save me this I read
And in my heart I find a need
For Him to be my Savior

That He would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior

My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior’s always there for me
My God He was, my God He is
My God He’s always gonna be

Yes, living, dying; let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior

That He would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior

My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior’s always there for me
My God He was, my God He is
My God He’s always gonna be

State of the Christian blogosphere

The results of the recent Christian blogger survey have been released.
367 Christian bloggers responded with the bulk of their ages in their 30’s. 136 of the respondents, or 37% were between 31 and 40 years old.
Twentysomethings made up 24% of the bloggers.
One of the most impressive statistics in the survey was that 128 respondents were “senior pastors,” the largest group of the survey. Second was “associate pastor/minister” with 77. “Layperson/church member” with 67. Another 42 listed “church staff.”
I wonder if those results had anything to do with where the survey was advertised. The survey was sponsored by Church Communications Pro as well as Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox. If it had been advertised elsewhere I wonder if the results would have been different.
To see the complete results, click here.