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…
I just talked to a man in our neighborhood that said a millionaire used to live in our house and had a custom built cedar closet for all of her furs with an air conditioning system that was ages old and a servant girl that lived in the house in the back. <<3/11/2008>> Yesterday while…
Ancient Hebrew wisdom describes four levels of charity. The highest level is to provide a job for one in need without his knowledge that you provided it. The next, lower level is to provide work that the needy one knows you provided. The third level is to give an anonymous gift to meet an immediate…
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…
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…
I love to watch and see how Google News puts pictures with articles that don’t quite fit. This one caught my eye the other day, especially knowing that a lot of Google staff are for Ron Paul.
Right now, I’m reading “Forgotten Ways” by Alan Hirsch, I just started “Organic Church” by Neil Cole, I’m reading “The Horse and His Boy” by C.S. Lewis with my kids, Jeremiah for my Wednesday Donut Bible Study, and selections from John for some discipleship. I think the first two will fall by the wayside when…
Here is one of the pictures of the eclipse that I posted on my smugmug gallery. It was more of an experiment, but some of them look kind of cool. 
This picture was just too confusing to pass up.
Is. 66:19 ¬? ‚ÄúI will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive to the nations‚Äîto Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my…
