Because of the risk of this subject dying off (It seems like it already has), I’m going to skip to some of the more controversial Bible passages that will hopefully create a bit of discussion. Discussion always, always helps me write better. I’m going to still try and do my best to keep extremely focused on just one passage and one thought on that passage at a time. We will do well to keep our comments and dialog to just that passage and idea (obviously we’ll end …

We were talking about Jesus in church the past couple weeks, and as a little intro we watched these little videos from vintage21. They are absolutely hilarious so prepare to laugh out loud.
Jesus Videos from Vintage21 on google video.
Now this is some unconventional church stuff.

I always get annoyed at our focus on holidays as seasons go by, so I thought I’d jump the gun and start talking about Christmas before anybody else!
I’ll leave black Friday alone, and ask that we all take a look at Christmas. We live in a very consumeristic culture, and we live on a “everybody else is doing it” mentality. Christmas is a prime example of this.
I’d like for you to think long and hard about the simple possiblity that Buying Nothing on the holidays this year might …

Picked this up from a church’s booth at the AIDS walk. Any thoughts?

my new best friend and favorite website. I read a lot of informational blogs, and most of them I find about one in 8 or less of the articles worth looking further into. When I read through lifehacker I seem to open a new tab for every post!
This probably says more about my interest then anything else, but I say it’s worth a look around.

So, I don’t have my very own cellphone, but my wife recently got one. We’ve been trying to keep good track of her minutes so we don’t get charged tons of extra money. During this careful attention to minutes I realized something.
You know all those automated instructions that nearly everyone has on their voice mail, “To leave a message press “1″…” My thought is that the phone companies do that so that it takes over one minute to leave a message. They double your minutes usage …

This podcast I brought a guest speaker in, Nate Manaen, all the way from Las Vegas (He joins us in the study, from inside my cellphone). The topic being discussed was originally brought about by some post Nate put on his Xanga a week ago. You can read his two post and some of the comments here: post 1, post 2.
Here is the podcast.
Please post your comments and thoughts below or on my xanga or Nate’s.
p.s. If your an audio junky, get the quality downloads here.

ACLU has an interesting look at the direction our society might be heading.
What do you think?