Author: Marcia Furrow

Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

10/24/2014Holidays, The Furrowed Brow 5 Comments

Should Christians participate in Halloween activities? This is a question that I am asked almost every year and no matter how I answer there are people who disagree with me. If I had to guess, I would say that Christians are split 50/50 on whether Halloween is a wicked and evil day filled with Satanic activity, or that it is an innocent couple of hours for children to collect candy.

There are many web and magazine articles, interviews with theologians and historians and library shelves full of books that continue here

Order Up!

10/21/2014Spiritual Growth, 5 Comments

2014-10-18 11.46.25Our son placed this lunch order when he was six-years-old. We may have been playing restaurant or I might have been distracted and he was trying to get my attention at lunch time, but whatever the case, it’s unmistakable what he wanted for lunch: pop, ches sandwich, slomee, marikool wiep, and mustrde.

Brian and I have laughed and laughed at this. Not only is this just the cutest piece of childhood memorabilia but this “order” is also a mark of genius! With only a kindergarten education under his belt, he read more here

What To Hold On To?

10/17/2014Death Grief and Mourning, Spiritual Walk, , , , , , , , 6 Comments

2014-10-14 16.15I’ve had this basket of flowers for 30 years. They’ve moved with us through six states and now I have to decide, will they go with us on this move.

It’s a hard decision to make. I look at these raggedy flowers that have been sitting on a shelf in a closet in my basement for the past eighteen years, and I remember the morning that Dad gave them to me: it was a Sunday, two days after I’d continue here

A Passion for the Game

10/14/2014Gospel, Sharing the Gospel, Spiritual Walk, The Furrowed Brow, , 8 Comments

It’s October and the Cards are in the playoffs… again. Or should I say… again!! Cardinal baseball in October means late nights, lots of cheering, and the non-stop buzzing of email, twitter, Facebook, and phone notifications, plus the early wake-up to watch the highlight reels on ESPN.

Everyone in my husband’s family is a Cardinal fan; their blood runs Cardinal red. I think it’s genetic; I married into it, my boys inherited it, and my grandsons are proof that it is continue here

Redecorated or Regenerated

10/10/2014The Furrowed Brow 5 Comments

How would you describe the walls of your life? Are you trying to cover up the dingy, drab, marked-up walls of sin with the whitewash of religious activities? You can’t. We can’t cover our sin any more than a house can paint its own walls. Only God can remove the old life of sin and create the new life of freedom that you desire.

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