Here is what I have been doing on my other blog: http://pastormarthablog.blogspot.com/2009/06/filling-whole-your-challenge.html

We had the Easter egg hunt and festival today at church. You know the drill: plastic eggs stuffed with melting chocolate eggs inside, go-fish games in little vinyl pools of water, ring-toss, face-painting, the space-alien bounce house, and wafting over all of it the smell of freshly popped popcorn and new-spun cotton candy ( Read more... )

I remember Easters from my childhood: gooey candy eggs hiding in the yard, dyeing hard-boiled eggs in the kitchen, shopping for the perfect new Easter dress, putting on the white patent-leather shoes for the first time. I remember church parts too: Easter lilies filling the altar area, glorious music, church full of families and friends. We went ( Read more... )

Well, I wish now that I had not watched the election coverage. Now everyone is talking about how gracious John McCain was about conceding. No surprises there, if you ask me ( Read more... )

So tomorrow I am preaching on the parable of the sower in Matthew (13:1-23). The experts tell me that parables are supposed to be subversive and difficult to understand. They got that part right ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm M--- and I am addicted to Naruto. This show is just so funny. My daughter is over there cringing because of the way they talk about Chakra. You see, in the mythology of Naruto, one has different jitsus that are powered by your Chakra. If you have a lot of Chakra you are better at your jitsu. According to my daughter, saying that you have ( Read more... )

I have discovered my reason for being. It is to provide material for my daughter's LJ (see shadows between trees). I never knew I was so funny! :p

Something about having my daughters home makes me just a little goofy. I don't know why. Was I like that when you guys were growing up?

I am tired. I am behind in all my work. I have 3 sermons to go before Christmas day. I want to bake cookies and go shop. I want to decorate and sing Christmas carols.

I better not hear any excuses from the members of my congregation about how they are too busy to come to church. IF I CAN MAKE IT SO CAN THEY!!

Merry Christmas.

Yesterday I reread books 1 and 3 of the Philip Pullman series. I did not have book 2. I wanted to see how I felt about them after reading Pullman's comments and the comments of others that I have run across. Some Christians, particularly Roman Catholic Christians, are quite upset about the books and I felt that I should take seriously their ( Read more... )

Ooooookay. Women did weird things to worship Demeter. Something about offering up decaying piglets. Weeeeeirrrdd.

And I thought Red Hat societies were strange!!