Kelly’s Blog

Alex, without whose editing skills I would be floundering about in utter technical cluelessness, has dropped several more images into the document we’re working on. So it’s coming along. I’ve tweaked a few ideas here and there, but it actually looks pretty decent. It’s not easy to do this when you’re a full-time mom! I [...]

“What would things look like if Satan really took control of a city? Over a half century ago, Presbyterian minister Donald Grey Barnhouse offered his own scenario in his weekly sermon that was also broadcast nationwide on CBS radio. Barnhouse speculated that if Satan took over Philadelphia, all of the bars would be closed, pornography [...]

I’ve done a bunch of posts over the past year or so on issues relating to, the assurance of salvation, and “security,” “once saved, always saved,” and the like. It’s important stuff to consider. This specific train of thought came about upon hearing the news that popular CCM artist Jennifer Knapp, like Ray Boltz and [...]

Michael Spencer, aka the Internet Monk, passed away on Easter Monday following a struggle with cancer. His important online presence, his insight and his pursuit of the Gospel, will be sorely missed even by so many who never knew him personally.
“And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing [...]

I wonder why there’s no such thing as Maundy Thursday Vigil. Wouldn’t that make sense?
As an update, I just read an important post in the Internet Monk’s blog called The Real Meaning of Easter? Read it; words may fail you, too.

I love the fact that we have Lent before Easter. It keeps us from picking and choosing the feel-good Christian holidays, coupled with some family-friendly secular ones, and forming our seasons of Christian existence around them. Instead of slouching from Christmas (during Advent) to New Year’s to Valentine’s Day to Easter (during the Lenten season), [...]