A short time ago the calendar turned another page and we slipped from September to October. October 1st means that it is just 86 days to Christmas, 92 days until 2010 comes to an end, and 1 yr, 3 mos, 6 days until I'm eligible to retire.I'd certainly like to retire when I'm eligible. Realistically, three years of no raises has changed what I anticipated my retirement income would be based on. And the wonderful downturn in the economy has taken its toll on the retirement account. So perhaps it's time to take another look and figure out just what...
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Friday, 24 September 2010
What's it Worth?
Posted on 02:53 by Unknown
Do you believe in Heaven?I know that not everybody believes in heaven. And I know that not everybody's beliefs about heaven are the same. So let's start by saying that if you don't believe in heaven, you can go ahead and skip this post. There isn't anything here that is going to try to convince you of heaven's existence or my idea of what it takes to get into heaven. It's more about what is heaven worth...to you?It's kind of odd that not everybody that believes in heaven, also believes in hell. And there are some people believe that everybody...
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Sent into Battle
Posted on 06:20 by Unknown
Wow. Reading through chapter 10 of Matthew isn't really the kind of stuff that a content middle-class Midwestern American boy wants to hear. Jesus' warning to the troops as he sends them out kind of reminds me of a locker room pep talk before a big game--you know, the kind of speech the coach gives when you're the underdog and are going to get slaughtered.Actually, it might be more like the what you may have heard as the Spartans battled at Thermopylae. The warriors knew they were greatly outnumbered and knew they would probably die in battle,...
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Early Morning Rant
Posted on 22:28 by Unknown
One of the few downsides to my job as an air traffic controller is the crazy schedule that I work. I did a swap with one of my co-workers that had me working the mid shift on Friday night/Saturday morning--not a big deal but I find myself wide awake at just past midnight. I slept from 8 to 12:30 earlier today, spent a few hours at Silver Dollar City with Chris this afternoon, took a little nap when we got home--now I'm awake. After laying awake for more than 45 minutes, I just decided to go with it and get up for a while.Lately, I've been thinking...
Friday, 17 September 2010
More From Matthew
Posted on 01:57 by Unknown
Matthew 7:13-14"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."I always wonder why we miss these two verses. Oh we see them and read them plainly enough, but why is it that we are surprised to find that we (Christians) are in the minority? How is it that we seemed shocked that the way of the majority is not The Way?It wasn't that many verses ago that Jesus compared us to salt and...
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
The Price of Freedom
Posted on 16:04 by Unknown
This past weekend I was doing a little channel surfing and came across the movie National Treasure. It was towards the beginning--the scene in the ice encrusted ship; the scene where they determine that they need to look at the back of the Declaration of Independence.I watched it for a while but I had too much to do to sit for a couple of hours. However, I got to thinking about the Declaration of Independence, the men that signed it, and the principles for which they stood and for which it still stands. There is a line that I think we should...
Monday, 13 September 2010
Not Funny
Posted on 20:26 by Unknown
Next week, on Thursday (the 23rd), NBC will air one of its new sitcoms. As you probably know, "sitcom" is short for situation comedy. The problem with this particular show is that there is nothing funny about the situation being portrayed.The show is called Outsourced and is about a company that sends its call center to India. While I'm sure that there will be much to laugh about as we poke fun at the cultural collide that happens when American management invades a foreign country, I just don't think that this is a show that I want to watch or...
Thursday, 9 September 2010
What Would Paul Have Written to the Church in the USA?
Posted on 23:36 by Unknown
I'm just wondering here...I'm not afraid of your comments or criticisms, I'm just warning you that I'm writing pretty much as things come to my head and I haven't really sorted all of the thoughts out yet.I begin with that disclaimer because I know that there are pastors and evangelists, as well as seekers and critics that will read this and I don't want to be misunderstood. I want to state--right up front--that I believe the Bible. I believe that the writer's of the New Testament (Old Testament, too--but this post deals with the New Testament)...
Sunday, 5 September 2010
The Temptation
Posted on 16:42 by Unknown
Earlier this week, I began to make notes in the margin of one of the Bible reading programs that I use. The notes kind of took on a life of their own and morphed into what will eventually be a sermon. I was reading in the fourth chapter of the Book of Matthew. You can find the text here.These are my notes:I really like the progression of the temptation of Jesus. In verse 3 the temptation is not only simple, it is reasonable. After a forty day fast, it is reasonable to assume that Jesus is in need of food.I have to admit that the first part...
Friday, 3 September 2010
Quietly Coming Home
Posted on 00:15 by Unknown
I got to see something pretty cool last night. At a little bit after 1 o'clock Thursday morning, an MD80 aircraft, bringing several dozen military troops home, arrived in Springfield MO. The chartered airplane parked at the old terminal building to unload its passengers. These men and women that had been away from their families serving our country, arrived home in the middle of the night with little fanfare. Except...The guys that man the Fire and Rescue at the airport heard about the flight and wanted to do something to let the passengers...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
It's Raining, It's Pouring
Posted on 09:49 by Unknown
It's raining in the Ozarks this morning; the first significant rainfall we've had in sometime. I know many people that have been saying how badly we need rain. And I know that we do need the rain, but...When I was a kid, I never really understood the old people always saying that we needed rain. As a kid, I had little use for rain. I mean I liked playing in the rain if you could talk mom into letting you go outside while it was raining. And I liked riding my bike through the puddles or floating sticks down the water in the ditches after it...
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