Archive for March, 2007

Good Fund-Raising

We just finished up our annual garage sale to raise money for summer camp & it went pretty well.
The best part was at noon, we made everything free and took donations.  With the exception of one couple who took two boxes full of clothes and 2 VCRs and gave nothing, we did really well with [...]

Some Thursday Links

A real wedgie emergency.
While we’re on the topic of butts, this is a good argument to allow smoking in bars.
Does the lack of cursing in ministry put up a cultural barrier?
A passionate plea – stop the madness!
Barak Hussein Obama is a really cool guy?
Blog from Iraq – President Bush used this blog as evidence that our [...]

Perspective For A Sin Talk

I’m reading “The Journey to Spiritual Maturity: Volume 2 – Finding Our Purpose” by my pastor, Dr. Joel Hunter, and I read this during my quiet time this morning.
So many times I wish there was an easy way to catalog all the stories I’d like to remember for quick reference when I’m preparing to speak [...]

Standing Up Against Injustice

World peace.  Racism.  Lower taxes.
There are a lot of things I can think of that might be worthy of a hunger strike, but a woman known simple as “J” on My Space, has found an extremely worthy cause.
She has vowed to not eat until Sanjaya is voted off American Idol.
I don’t know.  With fans like this [...]

Thinking Outside the Box & Other Links

Thinking big, but I see more negative consquences than good.  What do we do when all the reflecters fall back to Earth?
It’s important to know your crowd and be careful what you say?
I just love the irony of it.
$122K cat bite.

Basic Thought For the Day

Did God then create man so wicked and perverse?
By no means; but God created man good, and after his own image, in true righteousness and holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love him and live with him in eternal happiness to glorify and praise him.

Back to the Basics

Yesterday, as I sat in church, I realized how much I need to continually be reminded of what I believe, helping me weed through the cultural mess and my opinions about that mess.  I need something upon which to place my feet, to know it’s solid and steady.  And when the struggles of the world [...]