Why You Need To Be At The Revolution
By Jim Henderson

As I see it, electricity is far and away the most significant invention/discovery in human history.
Like most significant ideas – electricity was known but not utilized until someone figured out how to harness or we might say “package” it. It was there but it was dormant. Eventually someone who needed for it to “work” in a practical way, someone who was tired of matches, candles and the inevitable fire created the light bulb.

Thomas Edison harnessed electricity by bringing together opposites - positive and negative poles. This creation shed light, power and energy across decades and generations. Look around you. If you live in a city or even a farm, virtually everything you can see or touch has been touched by electricity.
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Lessons from Anna – Age 10 <<< Pastors don’t miss this one
By Anna Stanton
Our church rater blog gives people a place to voice their feelings about church. Anna is the daughter of one of our bloggers and sent in this fascinating report about her experience in Sunday School. Her comments caught the attention of some kids in India who weighed in with their opinions. Ready for “a little child shall lead them”

My mom said you like to hear what people think about their churches, and that you would like to hear a kid’s thoughts so here they are:
Note to all Sunday School teachers: Don’t tell me again what you have said every lesson, even though it is to the same exact group of people: we are all sinners and we need to accept Christ into our lives so he can forgive our sins and we will be new people. Don’t you think we have all accepted Christ by now since you have said this at least one hundred times? Why can’t you tell us something you haven’t mentioned in those hundreds of lessons, like what to do when your friend has a different religion so you can’t tell her about Christ without disrespecting her religion?
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God is Egotistical
By Helen Mildenhall
Our conversation at the edge blog provides a place where Christians, atheists and everyone in between can talk with each other. THIS IS NOT A CHRISTIANS ONLY BLOG so enter at your own risk. You will be challenged and provoked (hopefully to love and good works)

Yesterday’s Running To Win radio broadcast opened with this statement: Looked at from our standpoint, to be egotistical is wrong because we have no right to be egotistical. But looked at in the right way, yes, God is egotistical, but He has a right to be, because to him everything funnels into His glory and into His plan.

I’d be interested to hear the following from atheists, Christians and people in between:

• What’s your reaction to this statement?
• Do you think of Jesus as egotistical?

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