In the comments of my last post, Chris and I began talking about the under-utilization (or waste) of church property. This reminded me of a conversation I was recently having with Kathy where I concluded that when I died, I wanted a simple funeral pyre… like the Vikings had.
We were working in the food pantry [...]

After our awesome time a couple of weeks ago at the Rush concert, Bo and I had a great opportunity to go to yet another great concert last night. A friend at work had tickets to the “Metal Masters” concert which was headlined by Judas Priest and Heaven and Hell (Original members of Black Sabbath [...]

I completely ripped this off from Jeremy Pryor at Eden to Zion. He’s always got good stuff over there.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: “Stop. Don’t do it.”
“Why shouldn’t I?” he asked.
“Well, there’s so much to [...]

Jesus, take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can’t do this all my own
I’m letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I’m on
I dug my key into the side of his pretty little suped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seat…
I took a Louisville slugger to [...]

When a peacock displays his plumage does he do it for the glory of God or is he just trying to get the attention of some cute hen? It doesn’t really matter, from my perspective it’s a glorious display of God’s creativity.
~From a comment left at Brent’s blog.

Bo and I went to see Rush [...]

I was talking with Kathy the other night and she brought up a really interesting point. We were discussing personal training and exercise in particular, but I think the point can be applied to anything. She pointed out that mankind has this innate tendency to take Truth and bastardize it. For example in personal training… You [...]

Kathy and I have had unprecedented success with our garden this year… so far… I’ve posted some pictures I took last night of both the vegetable garden as well as some flowers around the house.
As I was shooting the pictures last night, I was thinking about what it meant when God said in Genesis 1:28 [...]

We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
What might save us me and you
Is if the Russians love their children too
This is sentiment was penned by Sting on his 1985 album, ‘The Dream of the Blue Turtles’. The song was written during the Reagan years in reference to the cold war. It points out the humanity [...]

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in [...]

Welcome to St Alphonso’s Life Point Fundamentally Emerging Fellowship. It’s a busy night at old SALPFEF (pronounced salp-fef), lots of activity… hope you enjoy the tour.
Trustees meeting tonight in multi purpose room. On the agenda tonight:

Which lawn service should we spend the congregations tithing on?
The silk paraments are getting a little dull, maybe it’s time [...]