BRING ME THIS. With java and some peppermint stick ice cream. Maybe some rain, a warm fire, and a nice chair and a 3 day block of doing nothing but reading and sleeping. Will that fit in your sleigh?
Archives for November 2007
QUOTEABLE
November 21, 2007 by Leave a Comment
“That’s the big difference between us. You westerners make love in public and pray in private. We Muslims do exactly the reverse.”
Hmmm. You can read the entire Time magazine article here.
When I was in Israel in 2000, I walked away very clearly with a picture that the Middle East is a religious society with political overtones. But the Western World is a political society with religious overtones. The Middle East is also very clearly a place where no one would ever say that “all religions are the same”. That is a distinctly American idea.
Reading this article resonated with that observation again. I don’t think Muslims society is more Godly, but it certainly has it’s belief about God more central to it’s decisions. I think one of the greatest cross-culture things a Christian can do today is to live a God centered life in a Western Culture. It is absolutely upstream from the way our capitalist society operates.
YOUTUBE AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
November 21, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Just got an e-mail from the ONE campaign saying that CNN is teaming up with Youtube so that you can ask a presidential candidate a question in an upcoming Republican debate. You record your question via video then upload it to youtube. Details are here. How cool is that.
I wonder if there’s a way to use this technology in church. Our main service does a “chat room” a few times a year where the congregation can text in questions live. I think it would be cool to have people ask a few in advance via video. That would be sweet.
Anyway…. now’s your big day. If your question is chosen, the winners can get flown to the debate to see it live. If you dig politics, you should chime in.
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
November 21, 2007 by 2 Comments
I just needed to YELL!!!! Here’s why:
- 2 check books stolen.
- 2 accounts canceled over the phone. 45 minutes later.
- 2 new accounts opened.
- Check card linked to wrong account.
- Wife says account has no money.
- Trip to Wells Fargo Branch- 1 1/2 hours later, problem “fixed.”
- Trip to Wells Fargo Branch to re-fix problem that was not “fixed.” 1 1/2 hours later problem “fixed”.
- 3 letters come in the mail telling me stuff’s not fixed.
- Trip to Wells Fargo Branch to figure out what’s wrong. Find out they’ve charged me $262 in fees due to their clerical error. 1 hour later. Fees removed and problem “fixed”.
- Go online to try and reconcile check book. Find out all old data from previous 7 years of checking is gone from my access.
- Call wells fargo to get it fixed.
- Find out it can’t be fixed and that all closed accounts are no longer viewable online.
- Ask them to send me transactions then, because the account has been “paperless” for a while now so I can balance my checkbook. They say they can’t and I have to go to a branch office to “fix it.”
- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
MORAL OF THE STORY: If someone ever jacks with your check book. Don’t tell anyone. Just buy the $29 identity theft package from your local bank and go about your day. Trust me, it’ll save you like 15 hours of headache and a blog post.
PS: If I find the guy who jacked my checkbook, I’m gonna punch him. I just might punch someone at Wells Fargo too. I think I’ll wait a day or so before I go to the branch office. They have video cameras there ya know.
PSS: They have video cameras in the parking lot where my stuff was jacked in the first place. Video cameras are lame.
peace out. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
oh yeah…. and USAA- the ones I bragged about in an earlier post…. yeah well they haven’t returned my last 3 calls. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! all over again!
EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
November 16, 2007 by Leave a Comment
When your kid’s 5th grade class performs the emperor’s new clothes, the emperor ends up just in his red long johns. Not just his birthday suit. Thank God for modesty. All the kids in his class had a role. They’ve been practicing for the last 6 weeks. TJ played the role of one of the guys who fools the Emperor into buying his “new clothes” from them.
Husband. Dad to 5. Student Ministry Pastor. Follower of Jesus. Yatta yatta.
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