We use Beggar’s Night to bring a bunch of family friends over. The kids go trick-or-treating around the neighborhood while pizzas continuously roll out of the oven. The girls dressed up as Jessie the cowgirl from Toy Story and Tinkerbell. Tinkerbell didn’t like going to the first strange house, so she helped Dad pass out [...]
I attended a very interesting meeting at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Columbus, OH. The topic was a potential church plant in the Pataskala area.
After a short Bible story about the disciples who prayed for boldness in Acts 4:23-31, the LCMS church planting representative took us through a life cycle of churches from conception [...]
I took a first look at Google Spreadsheet this afternoon to see if it was something my wife and I could use to keep a spreadsheet updated while I am on the road. If you have a Google account, you can just go to docs.google.com, type in your first and last name, and get to [...]
Pastor Stiegemeyer touches a nerve:
Actually, it wouldn’t kill us in the fly-over country to lighten up a bit. I don’t mean water down the doctrine or eliminate tradition. I mean realize that joy is OK. It’s alright to like going to church. It’s not just an uncomfortable duty like having your teeth cleaned. Uh, Christ [...]
Bringing a couple of my favorite subjects together…
David Berri on The Sports Economist blog examines the winning percentages of Major League Baseball teams before and after the 2002 Collective Bargaining Agreement. He argues that the competitive balance we are starting to see has less to do with team payroll and more to do with the [...]
AP reports that a federal judge has suspended Ohio’s voter identification law for absentee voters.
The reason? Ohio’s 88 counties are applying the law inconsistently.
The Secretary of State should be verifying that voting rules are applied consistently. The statute shouldn’t have to be stricken by a judge. If we were to revoke every law that has [...]
AP reports that a cargo ship full of supplies and a crew of American evangelicals landed in Israel after 35 days at sea.
“The Bible says, ‘Who blesses Israel will be blessed,’” said Don Tipton, the group’s leader. “We believe that.”
I didn’t get a direct hit on that Biblical quote, but a web search brought me [...]
I’m looking over the decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court to grant same-sex couples the benefits of marriage but letting the legislature determine whether to actually call it marriage.
Thus far I am not able to determine what prevents people in other nonstandard “committed relationships,” such as polygamy, from claiming benefits.
Here is an interesting section:
New [...]
