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Fear is the enemy of Christian leadership. It’s like carrying a bowl of soup over a bridge. Do you: A) stare at the bowl, constantly worrying if it will spill. Then spill it. B) Keep your eye on the other side of the bridge, and make it without spilling a drop of soup. C) Eat [...]
Many churches today have “Family Life Centers”, “Christian Life Buildings”, and “Recreational Outreach Centers”. When I was growing up, we just called it “the gym”. The more fundamentalist among us are often highly critical of these facilities. They are called un-godly marketing, destructive to fellowship, an attempt to be “worldly”, and all sorts of craziness. [...]
Foreclosures up 57%. Home prices fall by the largest margin on record. And all that lost home equity money is hurting home Depot, who saw an annual sales decline for the first time. Google in question. Oil still high. Friendly oil is going away and risking chaos over a large, shared border. Inflation posts biggest [...]
So it would appear that Christians are switching denominations and in some cases dropping out altogether. Certainly it is un-remarkable that people do not believe. From the beginning of time, groups of people have chosen not to follow God. The real question is, if people are leaving…was Christ ever there to begin with? Can a [...]
Interesting post on “the ingrown church”.
Way back I posted about open security webcams that you could google and then click. The game was to use the camera controls to look up street signs, businesses, license plates, or anything that would tell you where the camera was. Then look it up in google maps to see if you could find the [...]
Looks like big banks want the government to bail them out of this escalating mortgage/housing problem. They cite over 700 billion in at-risk mortgages, and point a big ol’ gun at the U.S. economy and homeowners. I imagine they will not even have to bring “for the children” into it. The government will probably write [...]
Today I went and had great fun shooting clays with a buddy of mine and some of his clients. This was my first time to shoot clays (although my father and I have been bird hunting many times), and I must say it was really cool. In addition to cool, it was also cold. 43 [...]
And another Hillary supporter fired up a Macintosh and made a political ad. If I ever run for anything, I’m going to hire these people to do the ads. For my opponent. Which makes you wonder…is some Obama supporter out there making these things?
It’s been my experience that teams are not built. Teams just are. When people come together without personal agendas, When people are willing to accept other’s strengths and their own weaknesses, Likewise, when people are willing to accept their own strengths and other’s weaknesses, When leadership is a function, not a role or position, When [...]
Tonight while we watched Obama speak, my daughter said “If I was going to vote, I’d vote for him”. I just looked at her and smiled. I smiled because…well…why not? What can I tell her about the potential policy issues? Republicans were not able to do anything about the exploding debt. Republicans were not able [...]
It must be stopped before it turns us into ridiculously slow, plodding, simulated music players. Also, as it offers simulated real instruments, the iPhone will eventually kill off all forms of air-instruments. This cannot be allowed. Apple is messing with forces that even Steve Jobs can’t comprehend.
My daughter was over at a friends house today. Apparently this friend has a bit of a mouse/rat problem, because about an hour after she got home she held up a bandaid-ed finger and nonchalantly announced “I got bit by a baby rat”. Now, she often makes up all sorts of stories so I kind [...]
Here’s a great example of Keynesian Cult Scripture. It’s an article by Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor (under Clinton). I actually read a bunch of Reich’s material back in school. All of his work follows this format: a) Good analysis of a particular issue b) “we must tax more and redistribute wealth to fix [...]
Our recently acquired puppy is named Molly. Whenever I hear the name Molly, I’m reminded of this game. Go to about the 50 second mark: My brother had a vectrex (we probably still have it somewhere) and it’s one of the best gaming systems ever. Really cool stuff.
18 years ago I bought my Wife-to-be our first Valentines Day gift. It was a small teddy bear and a James Brown tape. It didn’t go over well. Women….who can understand them?
When we filed one of our first ‘real’ tax returns over a decade ago, we were astonished to find out we owed money to Uncle Sam. We were right out of college and had very little money so any financial hit was ‘not good’. We decided to look for any and all deductions, which was [...]
This abuse of music and video is a perfect analogy of what her administration would be like.
From time to time, I catch myself saying very fatherly things. Which is good. But sometimes they sound alot like things my heavenly Father is telling me. A few: “son, I don’t want to spank you. I want to give you hugs and give you things, but you’re being bad and bad boys get a [...]
The revolution will be televised in HD, funded by dollars borrowed in the name of “stimulus”. Basic economics, criminally simplified by a non-economist: “Supply side economics” If you build factories this builds an economy because people can work there and people will want to buy the stuff it makes. “Keynesian economics” Put enough money in [...]
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