four tips for finding a church while on vacation – because you were still planning on going, right?

It’s “summertimmmmme and the living is easssssy. Fish are jumping, and the cotton is highhhhh.”

Ok, I’ll let Ella finish it out.

Point is: It’s summertime, and you’re about to take a vacation. Lest you think that just because you’re not at home on Sunday means you get to check out from the life of the Church, please go straight to jail.

Do not pass Go.

And definitely, definitely do not collect $200.

We spend a lot of time planning our trips: where to gorge on funnel cakes, what the best pirate-themed mini golf course is, how far the rental car agency is from the airport, when we have to get up in the morning and how late we can stay up at night.

This year, can you promise me you’ll spend as much time planning where you’ll go to church if you’re gone on a Sunday?

C’mon.

Do it for me.

And for your pastor.

But really for you. After all, Jesus is there to forgive your sins. You probably don’t want to miss that. Continue reading “four tips for finding a church while on vacation – because you were still planning on going, right?”

Adriane HeinsJune 30, 201412 Comments

Churchly Observations, Public Square

another kind of control

In the next two weeks, the Supreme Court will rule on the Sebelius vs. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. case, making a determination on whether or not Americans lose their religious freedoms at the doors and OPEN signs of their own businesses.

One side is focused on four abortion-causing drugs and religious liberty. The other is focused on birth control . . . I guess.

But what the Supreme Court won’t talk about is the fact is that there’s an option for women that’s even better than birth control, one that won’t cause the Greens of Hobby Lobby to go against their consciences and is already available to any woman who wants it.

And it’s not just the Supreme Court that’s keeping quiet about it.

No one’s talking about it. Continue reading “another kind of control”

Adriane HeinsJune 9, 20145 Comments

Churchly Observations, Public Square

a hand to shake

This is Captain Larkin O’Hearn. Two years ago, on a steamy day in June, my dear friends Katie and Michael Schuermann, and my coworker Al and I met him in Texas.