A Good Question

Randy of Upward Way Press blog tweetered (or twitted or whatever) a good question as I am sure many churches did more exciting things in worship today than they will do for Pentecost:

[Randy] wonders how the evangelical church got off the Christian calendar and on the Hallmark and civil holiday calendar.

Not that there aren't times and places for some of the civil holidays, they are not truly holidays in the sense that our celebrations of the great acts of the faith are.

No, I am not an old curmudgeon, maybe. But balance is the right word, I think for what we need in these issues.

And having said that, here is my heartfelt nod to mine....