Happy Thanksgiving
I could list a lot of things I'm thankful for this year, but all those things point to one thing that I am most thankful for which is happiness. Things like family, career, health, and a simple life all lead to waking up and going to sleep happy and peaceful.I realize many in this world do not experience happiness on a day like today. For some people it's beyond their control and they live with the hand they were dealt. For others, their choices put them in the stressful situations they face.Regardless, I pray for both today "...your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread..."What am I reading righ

The Feast
It was coincidence that I finished The Feast by Joshua Graves the week of Thanksgiving. It is a book that invites you to "feast" on selected passages of scripture and through personal stories helps you digest the ways living as Jesus means today. "The personal is the most powerful" and in the case of this book it was true

Worhsip and Entertainment
Growing up in my particular church heritage, I always heard that worship shouldn't be entertaining. "Entertaining" referred to things like skits, musical performances, puppets, and more. No one ever effectively made the argument that there couldn't be entertaining components to worship. The argument was always on the basis of "it might offend the weaker brother," which was a pretty lame excuse to a teenage boy. I never had a problem with it. I welcomed entertainment.Now that I am a little older, I realize that I don't care at all to have "entertainment" in the midst of corporate worship. It's not because I have a theological issue with it. The reason I don't like it today is be

Random Questions on phones
Image by truebluetitan via FlickrShould I get a new cell phone? I rarely use the one I currently have? If I had an iPhone or Droid, would I use it? A better question might be-- Would I want to?I like to carry things in my pockets other than a phone. Things like keys, coins, knives, pens, stickers, chap stick, etc... I'm also a little larger than average. I'm not huge, but I carry enough weight that

$83 Gallon of Water
One of the Tims I work with sent this picture to me last night. He didn't know people paid so much for a gallon of water.What am I reading right now? Read it with me.