Where It Belongs

My wife Rachel told me this morning that we’ve been asked (by email) not to use the new Dollar coins.  They allegedly have left off the “In God We Trust.”  I say allegedly because a quick check at snopes proved otherwise.
My first reaction, though, was to remember Jesus’ famous “render unto Caesar” teaching, as in [...]

No; Really?

Check this out:  CBS reports that  “All their lives, the girls in the polygamist sect in the West Texas desert were told that the outside world was hostile and immoral….” (emphasis added)
Have we, the “outside world,” proven them wrong?  Is this a self-fulfilling prophecy?  I don’t think they’ve been treated with hostility as compared to, [...]

Practice, Practice, Practice

Rachel and I painted a room yesterday.  We’ve been painting together since I moved in, and we both find it a great way to spend time together and accomplish something.
As I was washing out the paint roller, I realized how much I hated running the water for so long.  While I still think running water [...]

Generational difference?

Heard a well-respected, seminary-trained retired professor of psychology say this the other day: “Hollywood tells us that marriage is passé.”
I tried to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but I just can’t go along with it.  Sure, there are movies and television shows that don’t pay marriage a lot of respect, and there [...]

What is your part?, or, STEVE HEYDUCK DONATES $500 TO CHARITY!

This just in… Drew Barrymore donates $1 million “of her own money” to charity.
And she apparently announced it on Oprah, too.  I don’t know if she mentioned that she was donating her own money (who else’s money could she donate?), but I suppose the Oprah show is as good a place as any to make [...]

Search Engine Charity

I’m switching search engines.  Searchgive.com is a search site that supports various charities by sending some of the advertising money generated to the organization of your choice.  Click here to use SearchGive to support the Methodist Children’s Home.

Election Solution

It’s almost primary season for the 2008 Presidential elections.  Here’s a prediction made by Lore Sjöberg of Wired.
With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battling it out, the Democratic Party urges the two to set aside their differences and combine their genetic material in vitro to create the perfect candidate, who will be aged artificially in [...]

the Writer’s Strike end must please

Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien are coming back. Since I am almost never up late enough to watch them, this news doesn’t effect me much.  I am very interested in the writer’s strike, though.
I admit it: I’m a TV hound.  There are shows I really enjoy watching.  If my DVR always worked, there would no [...]

Great Quote

I’m reading Scot McKnight’s A Community Called Atonement, which I highly recommend.
In it, on page 76, I found this great quote from Tom Wright I have to share with you:
God doesn’t give people the Holy Spirit in order to let them enjoy the spiritual equivalent of a day at Disneyland. The point of the Spirit [...]

Hot Topic

I knew last night there would be a lesson in here somwhere.  It just took awhile for me to get it.
Rachel and I made some salsa last night.  I took the job of de-seeding the jalapeno peppers we added.  In case you aren’t familiar with jalapenos, or other hot peppers, a lot of the hotness, [...]