Monthly Archives: July 2007

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Our local paper carries a column called, “A day like today” which lists historical events that took place on the publication date.  I’ve developed the habit of glancing over it each morning.  As I scanned the roster on July 26 … Continue reading

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I Will Give You The Keys to the Keyboard of Heaven

So there’s this rumor going around that you can clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher.  There’s also this rumor going around that you’d better. Seems Clorox did a study which concluded that the abc pad on your word processor … Continue reading

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Cussing Out Jim Collins in German

The daughter of a good friend spent some time in Germany recently.  Late one night in Salzburg a drunk staggered onto her bus.  The driver promptly eight-sixed the booze-hound but like the persistent widow in Jesus’ parable the man refused … Continue reading

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Apostolic Photo-Op

Everything in this post comes from a sermon called “A Tale of Two Pillars” by Burt Burleson.  He preached it at DaySpring Baptist Church in Waco, Texas on April 22, 2007.  You can read it at http://www.ourdayspring.org/documents/sermons/2007.04.22_A_Tale_Of_Two_Pillars.pdf.  The lectionary readings for … Continue reading

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Igor, Fetch the Secret Formula!

“I love how God tells us on so many issues, ‘Here’s the formula.’” – Blog of a Megachurch Pastor I sort of stumbled across that quote recently and it caught my attention.  It caught my attention because I had recently … Continue reading

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