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I’m thinking about starting over.
Posted on August 12, 2006, under General.
It’s been on my mind for awhile, but I’m seriously considering dropping my current blog engine and starting over in Wordpress.
Health Food Sample?
A soul-searching question for you, dear reader:
Would you sample organic chips from a marketing stand about 4 feet away from the pharmacy order/pickup counter?
I went to get some medication today at one of the major grocery chains in town, and there was a stand with a bowl of organic chips right next to the pharmacy. I asked one of the people in the pharmacy if the samples were popular, and they enthusiastically said yes, seemingly unaware of what I was hinting at.
If you are one of those people who would assume the best and take some of the chips, you owe me Thank You card for not taking any myself.
Oh my..
One year from today I will be looking at my 20’s in the rear-view mirror.
What did you do this weekend?
Update: Photos
We are Debt Free!*
Except for the house, we are DEBT FREE! Everything is paid off, and we have the titles to both cars in our possession. That’s a good feeling. We’ve done this once before, but we had no expectations to stay out of debt. This time we have a plan and the passion to do it.
On to finishing out step 3.
A Study in Human Potential
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
produced by BBC
Although the full depravity is censcored probably for scholastic reasons, a look at what humans are capable of doing to other humans when they believe there is no higher order than their own self-interests, and that humans ultimately have no greater value than that of waste to be thoughtlessly discarded.
The Lamb and the Fuhrer
by Ravi Zacharias
“Hitler’s name is synonymous with power, evil, and genocide. Jesus’ name with love, peace, and humility. Put the two in a room together, where they are visited by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis for his association in a plot to assassinate Hitler, and you won’t believe your ears. This third book in the intriguing Great Conversations series takes Jesus to the twentieth century to confront one of the world’s most influential people of all time–and address fundamental issues of life and death, violence and the value of human life.”
A Christian Manifesto
by Francis A. Schaeffer
What does Christianity have to offer? If someone believes that God loved every person so much that He willingly sacrificed His Son’s glory and life to reach out to His Creation, what does that person’s life look like? Does that person fall in-step with the person who believes humans have no value beyond that of a renewable resource, or does it sharply contrast it with passion and love for the weary, down-trodden and defenseless?
New to the message of Christianity?
El Salvador Orphanage Video
Recently, a couple members from our church went down to El Salvador to visit an orphanage that the missionary works with there.
The missionary is Lance, who is seen doing translating in the video, and this is the same orphanage I’ve visited twice in the last two years.
The video is a pretty powerful and amazing story of a little boy named Moses. I’ve met that little boy, and lots of other special boys and girls down there.
I’m so thankful to believe in a God who remembers those others have forgotten.
What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering..
James 1:27
Who needs payments??
One car down, one to go!
Missing-Children RSS Alerts by State
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has state-specific RSS feeds for missing children.
Christmas Thanks
This Christmas, I am thankful for..
- A challenging job at a growing company who cares about people.
- Good friends, whom I can trust and laugh with.
- Family who cares for one another.
- A wonderful daughter who steals more of my heart every day.
- My wife who loves me inspite of myself, and whom I wouldn’t trade for anyone.
- Most of all, I am thankful for God, choosing to come to earth as a baby, to pour out his earthly life in love, that I might find forgiveness and friendship with my Creator - for all of eternity.
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before God made anything at all and is supreme over all creation. Christ is the one through whom God created everything in heaven and earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see - kings, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities. Everything has been created through him and for him. He existed before everything else began, and he holds all creation together.
Christ is the head of the church, which is his body. He is the first of all who will rise from the dead, so he is first in everything. For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and by him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of his blood on the cross. This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions, yet now he has brought you back as his friends. He has done this through his death on the cross in his own human body. As a result, he has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Colossians 1:15-22, NLT
