Category: community
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What about Christian nationalism?
Note: There is no video today due to technical issues. “What are we doing to emulate Christ? What are we doing to serve? In my opinion, Christian nationalism is one big self-absorbed pity party. Get over yourself. Get at someone’s feet and start washing. Don’t argue about politics; show a better way.” These comments came…
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What Christians should be known for
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) I’M FOR THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE — a popular bumper sticker that speaks a volume of truth. Every once in a while, it becomes necessary to refocus our sight. Who are we as Christians; what do we stand for; and what are we…
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Reaching for the eternal ‘oughtness’
“I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the ‘isness’ of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for…
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Day four: Friday, October 29. The Kingdom is our mutual priority Florence, our little snow queen, is not very happy in this picture. She is the daughter of a member of Marti’s current discipleship group, and she has just found out her mother has to go to the hospital (an important item of prayer as…
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Let’s light some candles
Day Two: Wednesday, October 27: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds Our son Chandler is a serious and inquisitive individual. He is unlikely to conform in accordance to anyone’s expectations, especially as a result of social pressure. He can generally be seen with frown lines…
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Warming up to millennials
Last night on on BlogTalkRadio we received an excellent primer for understanding millennials from two of our millennial leaders here at the Catch. Deborah Mullan and Elizabeth Shirk answered a number of questions about their peers, such as: What are millennials looking for in life? What are they afraid of? Why are millennials dealing with…
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Murder on the internet
I am preparing for Os Guinness to be our guest again on BlogTalkRadio in a few weeks by reading his newest book, The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai’s Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom. It’s a fascinating study of revolution and freedom in which he compares the Jewish revolt against Egypt and Pharaoh, the…
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Courageous Heart
One light fixed in the darkness One heart calling me to give mine – from the song, “Courageous Heart” by Dan Cunningham Susan Burton’s whole life is an illustration of Grace Turned Outward, but on a big scale. After circling back into prison six times because she…
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The Advocate
Angela walked off the Greyhound bus in downtown Los Angeles near skid row with a paper sack of belongings and $200 minus her bus fare that got her there from prison. She was dusty and scared, with nowhere to go and no hope of changing the circumstances that put her in prison in the first…
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‘The Catch can’
Today we will hear from a man who is very special to the Catch Ministry. He was the founder of the Catch and our first Chairman of the Board, Peter Herschend. It’s not a particularly special day in his life, except that he is our guest on our BlogTalkRadio show tonight, which makes it a…
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In Christ there is no east or west
In Christ there is no east or west, In him no south or north, But one great fellowship of love Throughout the whole wide earth. John Oxenham It’s imperative that Christians of all stripes, color, race, origin, ethnicity, denomination, and any other separation anyone can…
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Patron saint
I listened again this morning to Lambert Dolphin’s interview from yesterday, and my wife asked me what I liked the most about it. I like that this man has a vast knowledge of the universe, both from his study of outer space to the study of the earth from a geophysical standpoint, a vast store…
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Lambert Dolphin, space and time traveler
“Jesus is running the whole universe so we have to let Him run our lives too.” – Lambert Dolphin from the instantly famous BlogTalkRadio interview Our Catch today is going to be a little different. Your Catch is to listen to our 30-minute interview with Lambert Dolphin. Lambert Dolphin is an…
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The rule of love
You’ve heard of the rule of law. The rule of law is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “the authority and influence of law in society, especially when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behavior; (hence) the principle whereby all members of a society (including those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and…
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Who are we all in this together with?
And suddenly there was with me An ocean of humanity A sea of many faces In waves of warm embraces And while I questioned how to judge them all Who would rise and who would fall I found myself among them And it mattered little who was wrong or right …
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Marti’s Thanksgiving Day message
On this side of eternity, we have been asking each other, “When is the church really a church?” Is it a church when it is gathering on Sunday morning, or is it still a church when it is scattered out in the highways and byways, in homes or throughout the Internet? If you think, as many…
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‘High School Musical’
Why we chose High School Musical to be the go-to movie for our current campaign: 1. If you read into it, the song, “We’re All In This Together,” is like a celebration of the body of Christ. Just take these lyrics as a case in point: Everyone is special in their own way/We make each…