At the recommendation of a friend, I began iGoogling while on vacation. The custmoized home pages that iGoogle creates for you are a lot of fun. I usually spend some time checking out stories and other interesting stuff each day . . . looking for sermon illustrations.
On my iGoogle news page today I checked out [...]
Archive for July, 2008
NPR and Sick Leave
Posted in Culture, Family, Life on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some Things Going on at GCF . . .
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few upcoming events and on-going things here at GCF that I am excited about . . .
Cancun Mission Trip . . . 11 GCF’ers are going to Cancun in two weeks to do ministry and mission there for a week. This is my first international mission trip and I am incredibly excited about it. [...]
Disney’s Wall-e
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I promised some comments on Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E after seeing it on Saturday with Max and my father-in-law.
The Plot: The earth has been totally trashed by over-indulgent humans who have fallen prey to the parasitic onslaught of “Buy-in-Large”; a large conglomerate that is obviously intended to make us think of Walmart. Wall-e is the last remaining [...]
DayNine – WallE and The Last Day
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well . . . this is the last vacation update. We will be driving home tomorrow after church and dinner with Kyra’s parents. It has been a good vacation.
As for DayNine . . .
Kyra and I got to spend some time together this morning; eating breakfast and shopping. We then came back to her parent’s [...]
DayEight: Blueberries and a Nap
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A quick review of DayEight of vacation . . .
We went with Kyra’s parents and they bought Sydney a desk for her bedroom. Itcomes from a natural wood store where they stain the furniture.
Following the furniture shopping, Kyra and her Mom took Sydney and Max to pick blueberries and then the kids went to Camp [...]
Day Seven: Plum Orchard Lake
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry the report on Day Seven is late, but here it is . . .
We began the morning nice and slow; sleeping later than we have yet to sleep on this vacation . . . about 9.30 to be exact. I did some reading on Bob and Susan’s back deck which is really nice. The [...]
DaySix – A Move to Beckley
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have some pictures that I was going to post as a recap of DaySix of vacation, but the camera is in the car and I don’t feel like going out to get it . . . I might have a few tomorrow.
Anyway, we made the move to Beckley today to spend the next few [...]
DayFive: Boo’s-Boo’s and Generations
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few pictures to tell the tale of of day five of vacation . . .
Sydney riding the “spinning thing” at Little Beaver State Park. Following my “on-air” premiere on my father-in-law’s radio show, he took us to Little Beaver State Park for a picnic.
This is Daddy (me) being brave and courageous; preparing to carry [...]
DayFour: Tea in My Lap and Flowers in the Cemetary
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
DayFour Update . . .
After a morning of laying around my parent’s house, we started to head for Princeton to see my grandfather and take some flowers to my grandmother’s grave. Just a few minutes out of Hinton my large cup of unsweetened tea from McDonald’s busted in my lap and we had to turn [...]
DayThree – Lots of TV Preachers
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Day Three has been a good day. Here are a few highlights and thoughts . . .
Had a chance to watch the televangelists on TV this morning. Not having to be at church at 8am to get ready for services provided me the time to do that. It’s always interesting to get such a bird’s [...]
