This past Tuesday night we watched at my house what are surely two of the stupidest shows to ever hit television. And the sad part is, we know they are stupid and we watched them anyway. No Masterpiece Theater at my house. No CNN, Bravo or the NASA channel. No Hallmark Hall of Fame. Heck, your IQ drops 10 points just by tuning in these shows. Continue reading
Category Archives: Sermon
Family Values
Well, I saw the latest rendition of Batman at the theater on Thursday night, and I will say that it was a piece of work. I liked it OK, but I am not yet willing to use the word “great” which seems to be casually flung around by most others as the movie’s predominate descriptor. But it was very good albeit very disturbing. Continue reading
The Hour of Power
Since I have been on my diet I have learned to do without foods that I use to worship. I was once a first-rate chocoholic, and now nothing. I quit cold turkey. I ate one last Almond Joy and never looked back. And do you know what? I don’t really miss it anymore. Sure I went through D.T.s for about a month. I was so desperate for chocolate that a stale chewy butter finger or a rotten malt ball would have been nirvana. I needed chocolate like Matt Jones needs rehab. I took coffee intravenously because I needed C.R.T. (caffeine replacement therapy). Continue reading
eharmony.com
Well, I still get asked the question if we have recovered from the wedding. And the answer is yes, I think we finally have. We still have wedding stuff in piles in places, but hey, some of it came in handy this past week. We had a four or five hour power failure in Maumelle one evening, and man do we have the candles. We lit enough in each room that our house looked liked a 17th century monastery. Continue reading
Fear and Trembling
Well, I enjoyed my time in Memphis a week ago, we stayed at the Westin Hotel and it was a real elegant hotel right near Beale Street. We rode the trolley everywhere we went and we hardly ventured out of downtown. We did lots of walking around and Evan and Emily got to join us in Memphis for Friday night, so that was great. The Westin was out of regular rooms, so they did a free upgrade to a king suite for Evan and Emily, and hey, that was really, really nice. Continue reading
Too Good to be True
Have you ever had a time in which you simply could not stop laughing? Maybe a time when the harder you tried to stop laughing the worse it got? I have had those times, and unfortunately some of them have been at times when it has been inappropriate to laugh, say like at a funeral. Continue reading
Hit the Road Jack
Well, I have spent some time in the last few days and weeks helping a friend get ready to move, and I am reminded of how much work it is. The packing, the getting rid of stuff, the getting the house ready to sell, the repairs, and moving your stuff miles to another state and hope it gets there with minimal losses. Dianna and I have been in the same house 17 years, and the last time we moved we moved from only two miles away and had a lot less stuff. Continue reading
When Bad THings Happen to Bad People
Well there were a couple of high profile goofs this past week by celebrities who don’t always say or do the smartest things. The silver screen makes theses stars bigger than life to us, but they are indeed mere mortals and often very ordinary. I found a website article called the 60 dumbest celebrity quotes and some of them were pretty funny. Continue reading
Manifest Destiny
O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. Continue reading
A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
I love amateur photography. I have taken a few really good photos in my life and many not so good or mediocre ones. I am amazed at the PICs that Emily (our church member & wedding photographer) has taken of my Emily (my daughter), but I know she is a professional, and I know she has a good subject to work with. I hope to someday get a good camera and one of those super-duper printers that are wide carriage and take eight separate ink wells. Of course, buying eight cartridges of ink is worse than filling up the Yukon with a tank of gas, but the resultant prints are remarkable. Continue reading
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