Two different sort of things happened this weekend that are interesting… I’ve been out in the front yard a lot the past two days. I’ve been trimming bushes, cleaning up mulch, you know, good old fashioned yard work…the whole time burning a ton of sticks over which I later cooked some chicken for the weekly […]
Postcard from Cashland
So we just got a postcard in the mail for the previous residents of our house. It should be noted that our house was a foreclosure and we bought it from the bank. The postcard is from CASHLAND, a paycheck loan place in town. It says ‚ÄúBecause we have missed seeing you for a while, […]
If someone was so addicted…
If someone was so addicted to a substance that they changed their monthly budget-even their food-to pay for that substance, wouldn’t you want them to withdraw from it, rather than try to make the substance cheaper? That is what I think about gasoline. listen Powered by Jott
GO BUY THIS BOOK NOW
Man, I don’t think I’ve read a book that has forced me to re-think and repent from the way I’ve done ministry more than this book. You should go buy it from the local bookstore right now. “Perhaps the greatest poverty of all is having nothing of value to offer the community. I want to […]
Dan Sullivan Buys Google
You might have thought you could buy anything at the Home Depot. The other day, I bought Google. (and a 50 pack of rubber gloves)
The Confusing Causes and Effects of 'Service'
I‚Äôve been thinking about notions of serving a lot lately. Like how I thought that we should buy an empty lot downtown and put in a basketball court for kids to play at. ‚ÄúWe don‚Äôt need any basketball courts‚Äù one pastor of a downtown church said, ‚ÄúNobody plays basketball anymore, they‚Äôre all inside their houses […]
A New Tool in my ToolBelt
Last night I was at Rural King buying some¬†Great Stuff¬†expandable foam sealer. They had a sale that was 20% one item and I considered trying to talk them into giving me that off of one CASE of Great Stuff.¬†Then I remembered my wife’s words about the basement. “You can’t overclean that basement. Do whatever you […]
Closing on My House at the Twilight Zone Mortgage Company
So there I was, going to close on my house. The realtors from both sides were there, the loan guy, and the closing guy. It was kind of refreshing to sign a bunch of documents in a language that I could read. After two years of getting docs shoved in my face in the 9th […]
It Came from the Basement
Ok, I think this is the official first picture from our new house, that we should close on sometime next week. This is in the basement. I took this shot during our mold test yesterday. This thing is growing out of the wall. In the background, you can see the room where somebody had a […]
Downgrading and Upgrading Speech
I think more and more if you call someone by the most respectable title you can think of for them it will be easier to serve them. listen<<This came out of a conversation I had where at the beginning of the conversation I referred to someone as “A big black guy” and by the end […]