Penn Jillette’s video blog entitled, “The Gift of a Bible”.
Mike and Shelly Reid shared this clip with me yesterday. You guys are right, I can’t keep that quote out of my mind!
Category: Bloggers
I’m not sure what your motives are for blogging, but if you simply want to increase traffic to your site you can follow the steps below.
- Step 1. Make an entry that reads, “How to Increase Traffic on Your BLOG”
- Step 2. You’re Done!
Now people who are trying to increase traffic on their blog will Google and visit your blog. Thanks for stopping by.
I don’t think I’ve changed the world with any of my post, but I’ve sure had a ton of fun. Before last September I had tried to start blogging a few times, but would eventually stop because my focus was too narrow. I had started one for Technology, but ran out of ideas. Then I started one for Church and Ministry, but found it boring. A few years ago I meet this guy and started reading his blog. After a few months of keeping up with him through his posts, I decided that I wanted one for myself. In a day were we are often disconnected from each other, I wanted to share a bit of myself with my friends and family who I rarely see or talk to.
Over the past year I’ve gotten comments about posts on my blog from; who else but my mom, my former manager (and friend), a comedian, an ex-airborne ranger turned journalist ,old friends, new ones, and some people I’ve never meet. I hope to be able to keep it up. This fall I’ll be trying to post on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. So stay tuned.
If you have read many of my post you’ve probably come to the conclusion that I cannot spell. My inability to spell started very early in life. Do you remember the spelling bees in school? Yeah I was usually out in the first round. But not Moose. He usually pulled his arms in his shirt, flapped like a chicken, and finished at the top. Getting put out in the first round was not something I really shot for, but it did allowed me more time to sit and my desk and read SI. I always enjoyed Science and Math, but to this day I have a very difficult time spelling.
But then came the advent of the computer with spell check. Turns out I was born at the right time in history after all. Those of us who use PCs (not sure about MACs) have been indoctrinated to the Microsoft Office products which utilizes the F7 key to activate spell check. While it can correct the spelling of works, it unfortunately can’t read my mind for the word I’m trying to spell. Even after I run spell check – I may have all the words spelled correctly, but simply not have the right words on the document. Most of the time when I reread things I’ve wrote, I find myself reading over a wrong word (and not catching it), while saying in my mind what I wanted that word to be (don’t know if any of this makes sense). The conclusion of the matter is this. I know I have trouble spelling so if you see words that really make what I’m trying to communicate wrong or blasphemous let me know. In a day of “miss speaking” there are those of us who “miss-type”.
Check out the blog Live Fire with Chuck Holton. We used one of his books a few years ago in a men’s Bible study and really enjoyed it. The last 4 entries in his blog are worth reading.
- Burma on the Big Screen (See what he has to say about Burma that’s presented in the latest Rambo movie) Here are my thoughts on the movie.
- The Future of American Culture (Everyone is coming home.)
- Iraqi Becomes an American Soldier (A real American dream)
- Huge Book Sale (You can get one of his books, Bullet Proof, at CBD for $3.)
You can read them all at www.livefire.us.
You need to read this Article from Robert St. John in today’s Hattiesburg American. Funny stuff!! I 
heard an old (over weight) preacher once say that it was a Biblical command to “Buffet his body” 1 Cor. 9:27. Yeah I’m a skinny dude but I do have some experience with buffets. My earliest memories of a buffet were at a “restaurant” in Goss, MS. I can’t remember the name of it but they had a seafood buffet. Fried shrimp, fried fish, french fries, hushpuppies, and oh yeah frog legs (they were fried as well). My Mom would always order off of the menu and the lady behind the cash register would watch us, as my dad would say “like a cat”, while we ate to make sure Mom didn’t slip some food off of me or my dad’s plate. Then there was the pizza buffets. The original Pizza buffet was Mr. Gatti’s Pizza. Looks like they are still around, but not in Hattiesburg. I remember trips there to eat pizza and watch the low-def, big screen, fuzzy project TVs they had setup. And then came Shoney’s with the breakfast bar. A bit of trivia here. For a Senior Party (High School) my parents and sister rented a limo that pulled up to my house around 5:30 am in the morning LOADED down with about a dozen of my buddies from school. We were chauffeured to Shoney’s in Hattiesburg where we ate from the “Breakfast Bar” and returned to school in style. I have some video footage of the ride. We were “low” ridin’. In the last few years most of the buffets I’ve attempted had food that tastes the same. You know, you get a little serving of honey-dew melon and a piece of chicken and some green beans and it all tastes the same. Then there is the cleanliness issue. We have friends who refuse to eat at buffets because of the germ potential. I remember seeing a small girl peering over at the food on a buffet under all those bright lights. When suddenly she sneezed. I could see every speck of her projectile settling over all of the food. Needless to say we ordered from the kitchen. Today there are only two non-pizza buffets that my family and I visit and one of them is the Front Porch. We go about once a month on Sunday’s after church. I’m sure some people could apply some of the issues I’ve mentioned above to Front Poarch, but we think the food (or at least what we get) is pretty good and at a pretty good price (At least on Sunday’s).
Can you find it? The speck in the ray of light. The pale blue dot in the vastness. It’s the earth from around 4 billion miles away. Yeah I know it’s hard to see, look again. In preparing this week’s lesson from the Treasure Principle I was reminded of something I had read from Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan’s religion was the religion of Science. You can read more about him here. Here is an excerpted from a comment he made about this photo on May 11, 1996
That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
His comments humble us. They make us realize how very, very small we are. However his thoughts are only thoughts that originate in the mind of a man, not it the mind of The Eternal God. The truth is that while we are small and subjugated to the pale blue dot, THIS IS NOT OUR HOME!
As Randy Alcorn writes in his book, “Our Present life on earth is the dot. It begins. It ends. It’s brief. But from that the dot extends a line that goes on forever. That line is eternity, which Christians will spend in heaven.”
In John 14 Jesus said, “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. “
Talk with God about your attitude toward the things of heaven and the things of earth. Are you living for the dot or the line? Ask him to help you make adjustments that line up your priorities with His.
You’ll notice on my blog roll (below) a link to Live Fire Ministries. This blog belongs to Chuck Holton, who is currently an imbedded reporter in Iraq. Check out what he’s saying here. You’ll hear a distinctly different story for what you hear from the main stream media in the U.S. Also check out the “Bagdad Prayer Patrol”.
When I was learning to write in school, my teachers made me put the little triangular grip on the end of my penciled to train me to hold it correctly. It never really worked. I have always held a pencil or pen awkwardly and my penmanship reflects it. But God knew that the digital age was coming and I wouldn’t have to be encumbered with old fashion hand writing. While I don’t write nearly as much as I type, I do highlight most of what I read in printed form. Because of my grip on the highlighter it’s usually difficult for me to draw a straight line over a sentence, but not anymore! These extra large Bic highlighters have made my life a little easier. I guess its simply because they are easier to hold, but I can pick one of these babies up and draw one straight and smooth line. Being able to draw straight lines with this highlighter has kept me from going insane due to my perfectionistic tendencies.
If you haven’t check out the blog Cool Tools you need to. The author has dedicated this site to reviewing a wide variety of products, similar to what I’ve done here. He picks out things that he’s discovered that make his life a little easier.
A friend recently introduced me to the Song “Embracing Accusation” by the group Shane & Shane. The song is unusual and the message in the song is incredible. If we’re honest with ourselves we always fall short. We fail to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. As you see in the words to the song, the devil’s accusations about us are right. But it’s in the reality of confessing openly our inability to love him that we find the sufficient of Christ. It’s not that Jesus died for us and now we say thank you to Him and try to be “good little boys and girls”. No! He comes to us in our weakness and imparts LIFE to us. We are spiritually dead apart from him. We don’t need a pep talk, we need LIFE. Here are the words to the song:
Father of lies, coming to steal kill and destroy
All my hopes of being good enough
I hear him saying, “cursed are the ones who can’t abide”
He’s right, halleluia, he’s right
The devil is preaching the song of the redeemed
That I am cursed and gone astray
I cannot gain salvation
Embracing accusation
Could the father of lies be telling the truth of God to me tonight?
That if the penalty of sin is death, then death is mine
I hear him saying, “cursed are the ones who can’t abide”
The devil’s singing over me an age old song
That I am cursed and gone astray
Singing the first verse so conveniently over me
He’s forgotten the refrain.
JESUS SAVES!!!
Here is the video on YouTube and link to a blog that discusses the inspiration behind the song.
