<rant> Dear stupid people, When parking your car in a parking lot, try to avoid parking across several spots so that no one else can park there. Additionally, try not to park at such a horrendous angle that it’s impossible to park next to you. While we’re at it, if I’m parked...

I’m scanning through John Piper’s Brothers We Are Not Professionals.  I resonate deeply with some of what he writes, then disagree with other elements – I suppose that makes for an engaging read.  Anyway, here’s an “I resonateâ€� for us all to ponder in relation to preaching ministry: â€...

Opened up your retirement savings plan lately?  Forget the old quip about 201(k).  A 101(k) seems more apt.  The value of your home is down.  Your savings have shrunk.  It's hard to stay calm in the face of the market's volatility and the constant drumbeat of recession, unem...

I was just prompted by a question to re-read John Piper’s first chapter in Brothers, We Are Not Professionals. Here’s a taste of Piper’s prayer at the end of the chapter: Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, and in its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunge...

Some people have goals for every five-minute segment of the day, while others balk at that approach to life and deliberately claim to have no goals at all.  While goal-setting can be taken to a manic extreme, it is healthy to have goals in the important areas of life in order to avoid aimlessness.Â...

The red line is a fire ball being shot down the hill Tonight as I was coming home from hanging out with some friends, I noticed there were big bonfires happening up on the hill behind our apartment.  I knew this was coming as its a tradition every year.  This last week ended the celebrations of Fa...

Hello Kiddies, I yet live as life in the HSB just keeps getting more amusing. (For those that have asked, HSB stands for 'Homicidal Salad Bowl' it's an euphemism for life's travails.) So much to say, so little time, I even have some memes to answer that I should get around to at some point. We never...

My milk went bad. So I just found myself mentally bitching to myself that I have to either a) go a whole block to get coffee and then it will be a bit cold when I get home and I'll have to microwave it! or b) do my whole grocery shopping without coffee in my system! or c) go to the corner store and ...

Continuing the list of ten characteristics of Jesus’ preaching, as observed by a chapter in Preach the Word: (6) Visual in its Appeal - Jesus painted word pictures.  He didn’t speak in abstractions, but he helped his teaching to form in the minds of the listeners (whether they were inte...

She type like a motherfucker and her fingers were like tentacles. You know what the “alt-tab” keys in a computer keyboard? Those are the keys you use to transfer from one browser to another or to alternate between the two most recent tasks. After being in a customer service account for ...