I saw this first on Eric Barb’s blog and clicked on the link and am hooked!? Alpha Inventions.com is a live blog reader.? What is that you ask?? Well, you go to Alpha Inventions.com and just check it out.? You will have blog after blog come up in random order.? You can pause the shuffle, […]
So much going on lately this fall around C-town and the Stone family! We have a new puppy, Pepper. We had two birthdays (Tucker and Jenny). We had a Children’s Choirs of Southwest Missouri fall concert extravaganza. We have had several friends down from Ozark/Nixa/Springfield (by the way, they just invited themselves and came down, […]
I have been intending on posting more, but have just been busy or lazy, or both!? I am moving my site around at the hosting company, so the blog may be down for a bit, but will be back better than ever (ahem, mediocre as usual)! When it gets back up and running, there will […]
Veteran golfer, J.P. Hayes, turned himself in for using a golf ball not approved for play by the United States Golf Association.? In doing so, it disqualified him from the Q-School tournament and he did not get a coveted 2009 PGA tour card.? There are many articles and blog posts about this event when you […]
Here is a picture of a car we saw at Maple Leaf. It is the exact same car that was my dad’s first car. My first car, “The Silver Bullet,” was a 1980 Chevrolet ‘Vette–Chevette that is! It was silver that looked like primer or a homemade paint job with rattle cans–or both! The best […]
It is pretty funny (ironic rather than “ha ha”) that every time I seem to feel like I am getting along better as a leader, husband, father, friend, etc., the Lord always tightens the screws a bit and makes me better!? The problem with that is that it, most of the time, is a painful […]
Today, November 13th, a Friday that year, my beautiful bride was born!? The older we get, the more I respect and love her!? Something happens when you move past the trite, sappy sayings and you go through wonderful, horrible, amazing, crazy times together and really begin to grow together as soul mates. The last year […]
My buddy next door, Gabe Lett, is a counselor and life coach.? He has a new life coaching business called Refocus, Inc. that coincides along with the Life Transformation Center that he runs his counseling business through.? He asked me a couple of weeks ago if I would be willing to have a conversation with […]
We are in the final stages of our Generations Campaign at our church.? It is a capital fund raising campaign, yes.? But what I am finding it to be is a “faith raising” campaign.? I know for sure that our faith has been challenged for sure.? Jenny and I have neither one been through a […]
A friend of mine, a church planter in Jefferson City, Marc Backes, just wrote an awesome post on the powerful images of community in President-Elect Obama’s speech last night.? Go here to read the full post.? But here are some nice exerpts . . . Parts of his acceptance speech last night struck me in […]