Onward, Forward, Toward…

A review of chapter two from the book “Forgotten God” by Francis Chan.

Profiling is generally defined as the process of introducing behaviors characteristic to a particular gender, race, or ethnic background to analyze whether an individual is deemed to be ‘highly probable’ to commit certain crimes or to behave in certain ways.
For example, if statistics exist to indicate that the majority of small-scale inner city drug trafficking are performed by members of a certain race who loves high-priced used luxury cars, wears their jeans very low, etc.; then the profiling of those members of a certain race could lead to increased traffic …

That elephant may never forget, but I do.

Articles of Interest 02-27-10

A review of chapter one from the book “Forgotten God” by Francis Chan.

Before I proceed further, I would like to say that the book was a free gift not from the author nor the publishing company, but from a blog that offered up five free copies of the book in exchange for discussion about the contents of the book.
It used to be when reading books, one would skip over the introduction. Usually, introductions were approximately three pages long where the author thanked lots of people and told about some experience he went through while writing a book….
yada yada yada…..
However, I was …

There is an old saying that has been morphed into a ‘rule of thumb’ of life and church polity that you hear constantly in many churches today that goes something like this: