I believe I had less electricity this weekend than most people. (However I had no real damage, hot running water, gas stove for cooking and overall it could have been much worse ( Read more... )

Since coming back from vacation in HI last week:

My online gaming guild has disintegrated for reasons unknown.

The morning church I had been attending for ten years has folded.

My job of the past 4 years ends next week.

So I am wondering what this positions me toward doing in 2007....

The best part of all this rain is driving through the big puddles so that water covers the Jeep in white spray.

489 years ago, in an era when flame wars included actual fire, Martin Luther posted one of history’s greatest trolls, the 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral ( Read more... )

So Slate of all places has a blog of biblical review ( Read more... )

Advent 1 there will be a U2charist in Medina. The preacher from COTA may even be preaching.

http://www.stthomasmedina.org/Upcoming_Events/Special_Events.htm

I appear to be less edited in the morning ( Read more... )

So I'm developing a scale for asking for music to complement my sermon instead of just giving out the sermon scripture in advance ( Read more... )

Sunday the 24th I'm preaching on 1 Samuel 8, give us a King to a church in the midst of selecting a pastor.

So pray for me. Or come cheer me on - sadly this is in the morning.

http://newsongchurch.org/mapdirections.html

10:15 Sunday, September 24th

So my orchard is nominally protected from foraging deer by two things. It's inside a fence and the area inside the fence smells like a carnivore visits there frequently because that's where the Labrador pees ( Read more... )