Monday, March 10, 2014

Prayer Before Flying- Multiple Choice!

A friend of mine shared this with me- an "invocation card" to aid passenger's prayers for the flight, found in the seat backs of Lion Air planes- Indonesia's largest airline.  Pick your prayer carefully!

This side of the card features prayers for Hindus, Buddhists, and Confucianists.

This side features prayers for Muslims, Protestants, and Catholics.

In the next 10 years, Lion Air has massive orders for new aircraft- their fleet will reportedly grow from 120 to 820 planes!  So, how does an airline with poor safety and service reputation keep growing?!?

Perhaps you'll make a link between this prayer card and their success, but I couldn't possibly comment.  ;^)

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Guest Blog- The Jonah Juxtaposition

Why people gravitate to God's global purposes and why they run away.

By Shane Bennett  

Who wouldn't want to have a book in the Bible named after themselves? My guess is that Jonah wouldn't. As far as I can tell, though, he's the only one to get four eponymous chapters dedicated solely to himself. And it couldn't be the recounting of noble exploits or sharing of time-honored, God-revealed truth. Not even an angelic visitation. No, it had to be a giant, unmitigated foul-up. It may be Jonah's one and only foul-up, but it's preserved so we can read it, raise our eyebrows, cluck our tongues, and judge poor Jonah.

Or maybe he's not so much "poor Jonah." He clearly disobeyed. And in the process, he may provide mission mobilizers with a moral on a silver plate: "Obey God. Become a missionary. Don't be a dope like Jonah." Powerful stuff if wielded well, but not as interesting to me as…