DNA Evidence…
February 28, 2007
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A Great Conference
February 26, 2007
The guys at Mountain Lake Church in Cumming, GA are putting on putting on a conference for church planters, and it’s started out pretty well! This afternoon, we heard from Ed Stetzer, who knocked it out of the park by reminding us that amid all of the innovation/technology/cool ambience stuff that we hear about planting churches, amid the choosing-a-cool-name, and niche-marketing, and vision-casting, and all of that stuff, the one thing that is central, at the core, never to be substituted for, is the gospel of the cross and resurrection. It’s about Jesus, and to the degree that a church planter loses sight of that, he’s dead in the H2O. Yes, Ed, preach it, brother. Preach it.
This after Shawn Lovejoy, lead pastor of the host church, talked about the importance of “being mean” with the vision (something that is hard for me to do, but which I have to). What he meant by that phrase, borrowed from Ed Young, Jr., is that there are all sorts of people who will tempt you, in various ways, to leave the vision, to compromise what God’s put into your heart to do, to sacrifice the best on the altar of the good. And that is a big mistake. And an easy one to make.
Looking forward to tomorrow!
A Bloggin’ Man’s Gotta Blog…
February 26, 2007
Hello, one and all,
I’m coming back from my self-imposed two-month hiatus from blogging, having proved to myself that a.) I could go two months blogging little, and b.) that I’m a blogger at heart, and a bloggin’ man’s gotta blog. What I’m going to do, though, is to do a variation of something suggested by my webbie-dude Paul (who filled in during my absence with some nice posts, mostly goofy), and thus restrain myself to early-morning and later-evening blogging. I’ll blog before 8 in the morning, and after 10 in the evening, thereby limiting my blogging but allowing myself to blog when the need arises.
And believe me, blogging qualifies as a basic human need…
The Inconvenient Truth about Al Gore
February 26, 2007
If you’re shocked by Al Gore’s hypocrisy, then you just haven’t been paying attention, because this sure isn’t the first time that hyper-liberal Al has been hoist by his own petard. Read it and weep (or laugh in unshocked contempt, as I did):
The Inconvenient Truth about Al Gore
Phony-baloney, plastic banana, good time rock-n-roller Al is caught once again by the inconvenient truth.
Hugh Hewitt Interviews Rudy
February 24, 2007
Rudy Giuliani continues to campaign for, and impress, the conservative vote. Friday, Hugh Hewitt interviewed Rudy Giuliani and I think it is well worth the read.
MAJOR Football Story Breaking…
February 22, 2007
I know we have pointed you to a couple of breaking news stories in the last couple of weeks, but this one is MAJOR!
Besides altering the complexion of the NFL for years to come, this has the potential to totally upend every fantasy football league in the known universe….
Read for yourself and draw your conclusions….
New Orleans Saints Seek to Draft Benny Hinn
Ranking The Winkers
February 20, 2007
Recently Byron wrote a post ranking NFL Quarterbacks. Keeping in line with ranking sports greats, I humbly offer this ranking of Winkers.
A Winker, of course, is a serious TiddlyWinks player, usually a member of either the North American Tiddlywinks Association, founded 1966, or the older English Tiddlywinks Association, founded 1958.
For the purpose of this ranking of the best Winkers of all time, we are limiting it to participants in either the World Singles (WS) or the World Pairs (WP) which pits the NATwA champion(s) against the ETwA champion(s). To see a complete list of all champions, see the Results of Major Championships page.
Any ranking of top Winkers has to have Larry Kahn at the top. No other Winker in history has won as many national and world tiddlywinks championships as Larry has. Kahn has even been featured in a Sports Illustrated article on Tiddlywinks. (SI Nov. 27, 1995)
Dave Lockwood ranks 2nd on my list with 11 WS championships and 7 WP championships.
Andy Purvis, representing the ETwA, places 3rd on my list, followed by Geoof Myers and Jon Mapley.
Well, there is my top five, is your list any different? And what would be your favorite Tiddlywinks moment?
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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