If you have a few minutes, take a look at this video. It’s all about what’s happening in the church in Nigeria. I found it very interesting.  And very sad. The video is about 20 minutes long, but it’s good: Thoughts? Todd

Oh for crying out loud.  I appreciate the need to pray, but is anyone else but me a little embarrassed by this? Just...

From yesterday’s White House press briefing… Spokesman Jay Carney: Well, I believe the phrase from the Bible* is, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” And I think the point the President is making is that we should — we have it within our capacity to do the things to help the American people. Too bad it’s not really in the Bible, Jay. For those ‘word geeks’ out there… here’s more on the phrase. Todd QUESTION:  What other things have you heard quoted as scripture that really aren’t?  The other big one, I think, is:  Money is the root of...

Here’s some innovative thinking and cooperation between a church and the city: The Santa Clarita Parks Commission will hear a proposal Thursday to modify approved plans for a future park at the southeast corner of Valencia’s Bridgeport Marketplace. Under the new plan, rather than a 5-acre park, the city would design a 2.6-acre public park and the remaining 2.4 acres would be paved as a parking lot for approximately 100 vehicles. Real Life Church would pay for all of it. When complete, shopping center owner Bridgeport Marketplace LLC would deed the park property to the city and the new parking...

Precisely who wrote the Bible has been debated for centuries – but now scientists have devised a computer program that sheds much more light on the sources of the various religious texts within it. Israeli computer scientists and Bible scholars have written an algorithm that analyses the writing styles found within various sections. While it can’t pinpoint an individual author, the program has been able to determine when a passage has been written by more than one person and can detect the point at which a new author has taken over. The computer program will be able to help with these kinds of...