Category: Johnny’s Cafe
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Nothin’ to say at all
If you’ve got nothin’ to say to folks at Johnny’s Cafe You’ve got nothin’ to say at all Having something to say is all about being able to communicate with anyone, anywhere. It’s about finding what we have in common with people wherever we are.
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Intimate, personal grace
Thank you to all of you who commented about the importance of John 3:17 in your own life. Just to be sure, I want to make clear I wasn’t really advocating plastering John 3:17 signs all over the neighborhood. I agree with Bob about the limited effectiveness of spreading around a scripture reference. It was…
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JOHN 3:17
I’ve been thinking about starting a JOHN 3:17 campaign. You’ve undoubtedly seen the self-styled JOHN 3:16 campaign — evangelicals’ most shopped-around logo. Go in your mind’s eye right now and see if you can spot that weird guy with the rainbow afro holding up a JOHN 3:16 sign from a seat where the center field…
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Everlasting life
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John3:16 All boomers within the sound of my writing voice, listen up. This is the part of this famous verse that is becoming more and more relevant to us every…
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God so loved you and me
I didn’t get my wife’s reaction to yesterday’s Catch where I talked about John 3:16 and gave everyone a link to St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir (London) of men and boy’s voices singing John Stainer’s musical rendition of the words of John 3:16-17 until last night, because she hadn’t had time for the Catch during the…
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God loves the world
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16-17 KJV (For a moving and exquisite…
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In the in-between time
Love Him in the morning when you see the sun a-rising Love Him in the evening ‘cause He took you through the day And in the in-between time when you feel the pressure coming Remember that He loves you and He promises to stay from the “All Day Song” by John Fischer My brilliant wife…
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Stepping into the Kingdom of God
Labor Day weekend. Can you believe it’s the last official weekend of summer? I haven’t even gotten my barbecue out yet. Does this mean we’ve already had Memorial Day? Most high schools around here have already had their first game. College games start this weekend. School busses are hitting the streets. My baseball app just…
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God, politics and religion
Today, I am being led to remind myself and all of us that the Lord our God is over all — all nations, all leaders, all political systems, all ideologies — God is God. There is none like Him. He is self-evident. He does not need to be ratified by us. “He is not served…
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Why be cute when you’re already beautiful?
This was a time when I inadvertently showed you what not to do. My wife pointed it out to me when I read her yesterday’s Catch last night. In yesterday’s Catch, I included a list summarizing Paul’s strategy in Acts 17, in approaching the Greek philosophers who dominated the Athenian marketplace. The first part…
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A message for the marketplace
Any road to understanding marketplace Christianity, or how we need to approach sharing the gospel in the wider world around us, has got to go through Acts 17, that great chapter in the history of the early church which includes Paul’s encounter with the philosophers of the Greek intellectual community in Athens. As in the…
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Taking the high road
It is critical, especially in light of the ongoing culture wars (and they are ongoing; and appear to be worsening) how we behave as Christians in the world and in the marketplace of ideas, and right now, it’s my observation that we have a tendency to behave very badly. Actually, so is everybody, but “everyone’s…
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What does your worldview do for people in the world?
Worldview is not a battleground. It is not our worldview versus their worldview. Nor is it our goal to get everyone to have a Christian worldview. There is even some debate as to whether there is a right or a wrong worldview. Here are some worldview questions to think about:
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Our place in the world
My wife is an expert at opening people up. We should all take notes. Her most recent example came last night when we were out to dinner. It wasn’t exactly a Johnny’s Cafe-type diner, but Marti has a way of turning any place into the friendly atmosphere of a Johnny’s Cafe just by how she…
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Branded
I am hopelessly branded. The brand has branded me. I pay $5.99 for a six-pack of coke and it’s not even 12-ounce cans or bottles; it’s for the little 8-ounce bottles, but they look like the coke bottles we used to drink from when I was a kid. We’d push down the big lever and…
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No small fry
This is a picture of Lisa Brennan-Jobs. She is the daughter of Apple founder, Steve Jobs and his high school sweetheart, Chrisann Brennan. Steve and Chrisann had an on-again off-again relationship throughout the seventies but they were never married. Lisa was a product of that relationship, born on my birthday in 1978. She has…
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Down at RJ’s Cafe
Today’s Catch is coming to you from my favorite local Johnny’s Cafe. This one happens to be called RJ’s Cafe. It’s a 15-minute drive from my house, but it’s worth it — the deciding factor being the pancakes. I am always in search of the best pancakes in town and RJ’s is the closest thing…
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The fingerprint of God
I am fascinated by the graphic I used earlier this week of a map of the world superimposed inside a fingerprint. My first thought was of each person’s worldview with some things the same based on our shared beliefs and values, while each one is different based on our unique upbringing and experience — no…
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What is your worldview?
“Worldview is closely linked to the creation of culture,” said writer and journalist Terry Mattingly on our BlogTalkRadio show last night. “If you think of culture as hardware, in computer terms,” he went on to say, “worldview would be the software — the lens though which you look at the world, and the make-up of…