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Jesus Keeps Disappointing Me

I have a question today. It's simple, really. But I've been pondering it a lot lately. Do you love Jesus? Do I love Jesus? To clarify, in the context of this post, this is not a question for non-believers. Certainly if you don't believe in your need for Jesus, if you're not a believer, I am praying that your eyes will be opened. Certainly if you don't have Jesus, you need Him. But that's for another post. Today's question is

March 30th, 2014|Christian Life, Worship|0 Comments

A Bold Humility

Bold humility. Humble boldness. No matter how you word it, those two words don't go together. They are counter-intuitive. One should cancel out the other. To the world, that is. But I've learned something pretty profound about God as I've walked with Him - He's all about surprising us with opposite, counter-intuitive, seemingly impossible thinking. When we say, "Stay. It's not going to work," He says, "Go. I've got this." When we think it's crazy, He says it's His plan.

March 25th, 2014|Christian Life, Worship|0 Comments

Somehow (Single)

Somehow (Single) Morgan G Farris ©2009 Morgan G Farris All rights reserved. Track Listing: 1. Somehow Lyrics and Music: Morgan G Farris Produced by: Daystar Television Network Piano and Keyboards: Morgan G Farris Vocals: Morgan G Farris Background Vocals: Morgan G Farris, Marc Gonzales Bass: Marc Gonzales Drums: Daniel Taylor Available for free download: Reverb Nation

March 5th, 2014|Music, Works|0 Comments

A Song For a Friend

Above: Stacy (left) with her beautiful daughter (right) with my husband on our wedding day It was five years ago today. We lost a friend that was one of the most selfless, kind, truly honest persons I've ever met. Her name was Stacy. She was a wife, a mother, a friend, a lover of Jesus. And to me, she was a rock. I miss her every time I have a funny story to tell. I think of her

March 2nd, 2014|Christian Life, Family, Worship|1 Comment

Unexpected Turns and Crazy Ideas

When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves

February 18th, 2014|Christian Life, Working Life, Worship|0 Comments

Like a Good Little Christian

I used to be a good little Christian. I knew all the Christian-ese. I had a few key scriptures memorized. I did all the things good Christians do - I read my Bible pretty regularly, I went to church every Sunday, I listened to worship music in my spare time, I memorized popular Bible verses. I was really good at acting like a good Christian. And I counted it all as merits in my honor. I was doing a God

January 27th, 2014|Christian Life, Worship|0 Comments

Things My Kids Say: No. 020

Sometimes, no let me correct that, all the time, my son who is now three wants to relay what he's seeing, saw, has ever seen, or plans to ever see, many times, all throughout the day. It's a lot like listening to a techno song remix - one incessant replay of the same dang phrase over and over again thrown on top of a beat bed that's also incessantly repetitive and trite. Not that I don't love my son's stories

Sissy Men, Super Women, and the Troubles of the Modern Home

One of the many random courses that I was required to study in my otherwise useless degree was Inter-Personal Communications. Although it had little to do with the direction I had planned to take my Communications Degree of Radio / TV / Film, this class was one of my favorites. It was taught by an atheist professor that didn't like me and my "preachiness" (as he put it) very much. But, oddly, I really liked him. He fascinated me. He

January 21st, 2014|Christian Life, Family, Working Life|0 Comments

Things My Kids Say: No. 019

My mother always said, "Little pictures have big ears." I never understood that until I had children of my own... Virgil: Mommy, that is cray cray. Me: Virgil, let's not say "cray cray." It's not very nice. Virgil: But daddy says "cray cray!" Me: I know, but daddy is teasing when he says it. And he shouldn't say it either. Virgil: Okay, mommy. What the heck? Me: Virgil! We can't say "what the heck" either! It's not nice to say

I Didn’t Have Time for God

I was too tired to read the Bible. It put me to sleep. I struggled for a long time. I felt like a failure. I looked around me and saw my Christian friends reading the Bible, growing, learning, praying, in what seemed like a perfectly disciplined faith. I felt like I couldn't live up to that anymore because I was a mother. What little time I had to myself, I was too tired to read the Bible. It put me

January 9th, 2014|Christian Life, Family, Working Life, Worship|1 Comment

Short Reads

The Fall of the Evangelical Industrial Complex is Looming…

Unlike 15 years ago with the Hawkins lawsuit…

…Daystar cannot control the narrative and get out ahead of stories with a spin of “extortion” and “blackmail” anymore. In the age of social media, podcasters, YouTube, and even armchair observers, there is no more tight control of the narrative.

The same is true for legacy media, and we are watching their demise in real time.

We’re watching the fall of the Evangelical Industrial Complex, too.

It is good that tightly-knit organizations that protect each other at the expense of truth, justice, and morality should fall publicly and painfully.

In the same way that they’re retaliating against Elon Musk by keying Tesla owners’ cars, the Christian media is organizing “anonymous” accounts for smear campaigns, doxxing, and intimidation. It’s the same tactic — and it’s a tactic that only proves one thing: they’re losing.

April 1st, 2025|0 Comments

A Tale of Two Responses

I know there are many who are still very angry with Gateway after the fall of Robert Morris…

…but when I look at that situation versus what’s happening at Daystar, I cannot help but notice some important differences.

Once Cindy made her story public, people within the Gateway organization instigated an independent, thirty-party investigation into her claims and found that not only was Robert guilty, but he had people help him hide the truth. All of those people were forced to leave Gateway, including Robert Morris.

In contrast, when Jonathan and Suzy Lamb made their story public, Daystar refused to allow an independent, third-party investigation and continued to double down by ignoring the outcry of a child and insisting on the innocence of a man who has not been properly investigated or exonerated. To top it off, they have now gone on an internet witch hunt, blackmailing people and harassing anyone who speaks out.

Color me naive, but I’ll take Gateway’s response all day long over what Daystar is doing.

March 28th, 2025|0 Comments

It’s Not a Worship Song

This is going to ruffle feathers, but the majority of songs touted as worship songs today are not, in fact, worship songs. Most of them are focused on us, what we get out of God, and how God makes us feel.

That isn’t worship. That’s hedonism. I’m looking at you, Brandon Lake.

March 26th, 2025|0 Comments

The Erosion of Worship Lyrics

We went from singing lyrics like:
Then sings my soul my Savior God to Thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art

To:
You didn’t want heaven without us
So Jesus, you brought heaven down

Or:
I’ll bring my hard-fought, heartfelt
Been through hell hallelujah

Or:
I want to sit at your feet, drink from the cup in your hands
Lay back against you and breathe, feel your heartbeat

We’ve taken our sacred spaces where we praise the Creator of the universe for His glory and goodness and turned them into places where we tell God what we want from Him next. Church, we must return to true praise in Spirit and in Truth and abandon the hedonism that has infiltrated the holy place.

March 26th, 2025|0 Comments

Biblical Prosperity

Perhaps the prosperity that the Prosperity Gospel Peddlers tout is rooted in a capitalist view of what is good for us. Perhaps the prosperity God promises throughout the Bible is one for our souls, not simply our means. Perhaps when God says he will provide all that we need, it might be manna, not a steak dinner.

Perhaps that’s our problem — we’d rather tell him what is best for us.

March 21st, 2025|0 Comments
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