I have several friends who live in Birmingham and attend The Church at Brook Hills, where David Platt is the pastor. Dr. Platt is an unbelievable Bible teacher and preacher that is passionate about the Word of God changing hearts all over the world.
One of the really cool ministries that he implemented early on in his tenure as pastor is Secret Church. Read more
God has really blessed us since I lost my job in August of last year! One of the blessings was this ’93 Plymouth Grand Voyager with red leather interior and wood grain package! I say “blessed” because it really has been a huge blessing for several reasons even though it was not much to look at going down the road. Read more
One of the best things about Twitter is that you can be more aware about what is going on all around the world. I saw #worldwaterday trending on Twitter this afternoon and then saw this great interactive feature on charitywater.com called “Water Changes Everything.”
Amazing too what $20 will do to bring clean drinking water to a person!
Oklahoma has fired basketball coach Jeff Capel.
The decision was made after meetings Monday. Capel’s buyout is expected to be between $2 million and $3 million.
Wow, that’s a lot of money! It is truly difficult for the average person to understand numbers that large…to buyout your contract after being fired. Talk about a severance.
via Jeff Capel fired as Oklahoma basketball coach | NewsOK.com.
Tucker came home the other day and said, “we can’t play Rock-Paper-Scissors at preschool.” Now, I’m sure there is a good reason for this. Maybe it causes a lot of arguments and it’s not just that game that is banned from the classroom. It could be that it wasn’t an complete ban of the game from the entire school–maybe just the classroom. But, if Tucker is any indication, it has been banned from the school because the boy simply doesn’t know the rules and gets mad at his brother and just punches him in the gut!! Read more
Tucker came home the other day and said, “we can’t play Rock-Paper-Scissors at preschool.” Now, I’m sure there is a good reason for this. Maybe it causes a lot of arguments and it’s not just that game that is banned from the classroom. It could be that it wasn’t an complete ban of the game from the entire school–maybe just the classroom. But, if Tucker is any indication, it has been banned from the school because the boy simply doesn’t know the rules and gets mad at his brother and just punches him in the gut!! Read more
Tucker came home the other day and said, “we can’t play Rock-Paper-Scissors at preschool.” Now, I’m sure there is a good reason for this. Maybe it causes a lot of arguments and it’s not just that game that is banned from the classroom. It could be that it wasn’t an complete ban of the game from the entire school–maybe just the classroom. But, if Tucker is any indication, it has been banned from the school because the boy simply doesn’t know the rules and gets mad at his brother and just punches him in the gut!! Read more
I’m sure you have seen all of the mess with the upcoming book from Rob Bell. An interesting facet of the whole thing is the Twitter handle of this Rob Bell is @realrobbell. John Piper, et. al. bid this Rob Bell (@robbell and web guy in the UK) farewell a couple of weeks ago!
First of all, let’s be nice, right? Second of all, if you are going to bid a man “farewell” from “the faith,” make sure you are talking to the right guy! Unbelievable.
Rachel Held Evans interviewed the web designer Rob Bell last week on her blog. What a picture of how late to the party the church has been in communicating the love and grace of God…WITH GRACE and LOVE!
Some of my favorite quotes are… Read more
I have been watching this controversy over Rob Bell, the preacher and founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church, Nooma guy, and now freshly thrown under the evangelical bus, “heretic” guy. The controversy is that several evangelicals (one began the firestorm and others tweeted the Amen) have come out and called Bell a heretic because of his book that is coming out next Tuesday–next Tuesday no less. In this world of 24/7 news cycle, Twitter, blogs, etc.; we can form our opinion now BEFORE the evidence is fully on the table, I guess! Well, SOME of the evidence was on the table. Read more
I have been watching this controversy over Rob Bell, the preacher and founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church, Nooma guy, and now freshly thrown under the evangelical bus, “heretic” guy. The controversy is that several evangelicals (one began the firestorm and others tweeted the Amen) have come out and called Bell a heretic because of his book that is coming out next Tuesday–next Tuesday no less. In this world of 24/7 news cycle, Twitter, blogs, etc.; we can form our opinion now BEFORE the evidence is fully on the table, I guess! Well, SOME of the evidence was on the table. Read more