Making Disciples

This past Sunday I was sitting in my typical chair at Lighthouse during our worship service when a guy about my age walked in and sat down two rows in front of me. He looked unkept, wore tons of chains and necklaces, and seemed to be looking for something. He'd been …

Signature of Divine

This is a great song by NeedtoBreathe called "Signature of Divine" and it's also a pretty cool video. It's of the stopmotion persuasion, comprised of over 3,000 photos taken over six days, and does an awesome job to paint an image of our image of God. Most of the …

Formations

I love football. No, not that kind of football, football. Here in the states we call it soccer and I have been having a great time watching it all weekend. You see, a little bit into our time here in North Carolina (visiting Ruth's parents) I discovered that my …

Our Anniversary

On this day three years ago I entered into the best deal ever when I gained the treasure of a lifetime in the form of my beautiful bride, Ruth. One thousand ninety-five days later - many things have changed in our life together - Sam has joined us; Addison is on her …

Daniel Day-Lewis

I recently read a bio of actor Daniel Day-Lewis on Wikipedia (and for those of you that still refute Wikipedia's merit - read this and this). Day-Lewis is the star of the upcoming film There Will Be Blood which is a film adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! about …

Humiliation

I've been studying the book of James for a few weeks now and found an interesting process. James is a pretty practical guy with lots of "do this, and then this will happen" OR "because of this, you should do this" kinds of directions. It reads, in some passages, …

PHOTO: Beating the Girls Off With a Stick

Ella (the little girl in the picture) is trying to grab Samuel so she can kiss him.
As you can see, he's not cooperating.

Pie

There's nothing I look forward to more about Thanksgiving than pie! I love pie! Pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, pecan pie, spinach pie - whatever! I love pie! And you know what? There's a really memorable proverb in the Bible about pie. Here it is from the Message:

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Pictures from Halloween 2007

Vinyl is back!

I just read this article on Wired about how vinyl is making a comeback. Vinyl?! Yes, you heard me right. It looks like many music enthusiast's (especially those into the indie-scene) are dropping their CDs and digging into the stacks at their local record shop. Even …

Un-wisdom

This month I've been reading Proverbs and for yesterday (October 22nd), I read chapter 22. I've been reading the chapter for the day all month long and have come to a conclusion: I am not wise. If I kept track of it, I could probably find something stupid, hasty, or …

What is the meaning of life?

Just an experiment and to get some perspectives...

1. Click here to view a Google Presentation answering the question.
2. Send an email to chrischowdhury@yahoo.com to be added as a collaborator.
3. Add your own slide to the presentation.
   
4. Invite as many people as you want to …

Broken World

Yesterday, Ruth, Alex, and I were talking about Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth (which I haven't seen yet). It got me thinking about global warming and environmental crises altogether. As a Christ-follower, I think one of the most important realities that I and …

Trees

As I've been learning to draw lines or boundaries in my life that enable me to be my best and maintain focus on what really matters one change I've made is setting aside Saturdays as a complete sabbath day. Yesterday was the second consecutive "free Saturday" that I've …

Off the Deep End

When was the last time you went "off the deep end"?

As followers of Christ, this is what we're all called to do at some point. We're called to GIVE everything, to hold nothing back, to live our life as a total offering to others as a portrait of our heart-commitment to …

Sexual Tension

As part of my Ministerial Person course, I read a booklet called "Designer Sex" which is a chapter out of Philip Yancey's book Rumors of Another World. It was an excellent read and I look forward to getting the whole book! For a portion of the chapter, Yancey broke …

Honesty

I've always struggled with honesty. Lying used to be my default setting and sometimes the switch gets flipped again. Today, Ruth and I talked about this and had a moment of clarity - I sometimes lie because I don't want people to know me - and this is because I don't …

Drawing Lines

In class on Thursday night we talked about boundaries - the flexible lines we draw in our lives to ensure that we and those close to us can remain "whole" persons in the midst of the million-or-so dividing activities of life and ministry. We took assessments to …

Creating the Future

This morning I received an email forward from an organization that is opposing a new TV show coming to homes this season called Reaper that portrays a young man that, on his 21st birthday, finds out that his parents have sold his soul to Satan and that he now must work …

Creating the Future

This morning I received an email forward from an organization that is opposing a new TV show coming to homes this season called Reaper that portrays a young man that, on his 21st birthday, finds out that his parents have sold his soul to Satan and that he now must work …