Affle House in Greeneville

For those of you who needed visual confirmation of what we’ve known intuitively for a long time, I recently scored this great pic here in G’Vegas…

Excerpts from our Good Friday Service - “Gaze at Jesus Until the Darkness Comes”

Here’s some of the gist of tonight’s gathering. There are Scripture readings, cool touchy-feely videos, and extinguishing of candles interspersed between the Responsive Reading and the Closing Thoughts. Very Old School meets New School. And we’re not doing Communion tonight… which is the more original church tradition (i.e., recreate the Last Supper on Thursday.) Protestants [...]

A few useless but interesting links

Check this out: http://www.thisintothat.com. This guy makes bookshelves from, uh, books.
Then there’s the online Lego arms dealer: http://www.brickarms.com.
A skeleton made of Craftsman tools: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/05/craftsman-skeleton-ad.
This one’s crazy. It’s amazing pictures and “drainsploration” information: http://vanishingpoint.ca/tailrace.html. Check out some other stuff on the site: http://vanishingpoint.ca. Who are these people? There’s a whole online world of taking pictures of [...]

“All things excellent are both difficult and rare”

Spinoza was onto something, I think. And it seems especially germane today. I’m amazed at how often I find myself wondering, “Certainly there is an easier or faster way to do this.” Now, it’s not like I have good reason to think that in those particular circumstances, and I’m aware that efficiency and progress can [...]

Not that anyone else cares…

… but my boys, the Wheaton College Thunder, are in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Div. III National Championship Basketball Tournament… At least until they, hopefully, face Hope College in Holland, MI for the Elite Eight! Figured you Michiganders deserve a mention since you crushed us earlier this year.

Yesterday’s Ordination - “Charge to the Minister”

As some of you know, yesterday was the official Installation/Ordination hoorah here at First Christian Church. It was great. Some additional friends and family were there. And the Milligan College Concert Choir was there… that was a nice touch!
Anyhoo, especially for some who couldn’t make it due to sickness, work, and weather, here is the [...]

Breaking Biological Barriers

Check out this article, “Breaking Biological Barriers,” from Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint. This link has the original article and some good links.
I’m telling ya, people… We’re not far away from this sort of thing being more commonplace.
Mary Ann Andree was drying her hair in the Rio Sport and Health Club in Gaithersburg, Maryland, last month when [...]

PostSecret - Search for Significance

Here’s another Postsecret pic. (Warning: Some of the stuff on Postsecret is for grown up eyes only. Not anything you wouldn’t see on TV or not anything pornographic, but there are some adult themes.)
It’s amazing how important it is to make people feel a sense of belonging. The human desire to be loved is so [...]

Some Southern Drivers Are Too Nice

Everyone who lives around here ‘witha licka sense’ knows well the truth that the South is God’s Country. On that we can all agree.
But, when it comes to some Southern drivers, there is a recent epidemic of treacherous niceness that imperils all of us. At least once a day for the last week someone inappropriately, [...]