A couple of weeks ago we woke up to find our cedar mailbox and post broken off near the ground and fallen over. Since I’m home this week I dug out the old post yesterday and installed the new mailbox today. The sun was bright enough that my glasses were completely darkened, and I could [...]
Since the State of the Union the assertion by President Bush that we are addicted to oil has bothered me. Today Reuters reports that not only are we addicted, President Bush says we are held hostage. It’s a national security issue now:
“Some of the nations we rely on for oil have unstable governments or fundamental [...]
Just a few cool examples of good service lately:
When I lost my luggage, I had purchased a pair of shoes from Men’s Warehouse in Oklahoma City. I had worn them for two days when I got my luggage back. Having a set of shoes I no longer needed, I took them back, offering to pay [...]
“Everything is permissible”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible”—but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others. — 1 Corinthians 10:23-24, NIV
By now most readers have taken a look at the service I attended Wednesday evening. Rather than take it play-by-play and say what I didn’t like [...]
…in light of recent events.
I flew home to Columbus via Delta through Atlanta. Passenger and luggage made it safe and sound.
The first leg scared me, though: they had oversold the flight, and I hadn’t a reserved seat. One would think purchasing tickets more than three weeks in advance would guarantee such a [...]
AP reports that the Iranian sweet tooth rules all:
“Given the insults by Danish newspapers against the prophet, as of now the name of Danish pastries will give way to ‘Rose of Muhammad’ pastries,” the union said in its order.
“This is a punishment for those who started misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of [...]
From a report in the San Jose Mercury News:
SAN SICARIO FRAITEVE, Italy - A man in a red and white ski suit called Lindsey Kildow aside Wednesday afternoon.
“That was amazing,” Herbert Mandl, the Austrian women’s ski coach, told her.
“Thanks,” said Kildow, who tied for eighth in the women’s downhill 48 hours after being hospitalized because [...]
It took me 40 minutes to make the 15 miles between the center of Oklahoma City and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Edmond. Construction traffic.
I got there in time for Adult Bible Study at 6pm. They were in the last chapter of a book, Prayer: An Adventure with God, from the LifeGuide series by Intervarsity [...]
