Great site for book lovers. Earn points for submitting books to their database to be given out, earn more points for actually sending a book (realizing you’ll never see the book again), but, you get chosen books sent to you as well. I may join. We’ll see. The only cost is postage!
and also at the top of the billboard.
I was watching 30 Days, a great show where two vastly different worlds collide when one person decides to live the life of someone else for thirty days. In the first season, one of the more intriguing ones had a Christian (from Texas, if I remember correctly) live with a family of Muslims. Quite timely, and still so.
The episode to which I refer in my title had an atheist live with a Christian family (also from Texas). The show doesn’t always do religious themes, but they’re usually the most controversial.
One quick take made me laugh out loud. The camera pans across the outdoor sign for the church that the Christian family attends. It had the Pastor’s name at the top, and then “It’s all about God” at the bottom.
I laughed because…shouldn’t that be reversed?
And if you feel the need to make your own church sign, the wonders of the internet allow you to do so here. Just be nice.
I love stumbling onto a new website and being pleasantly surprised at what it contains. WhatsRemarkable.com is a Digg-like site for articles and posts pertaining to the Emergent Church. It’s user-submitted, user-driven, user-voted, user-commented, user-friendly, and remarkably remarkable for mashing up two great ideas. It’s hosted by the Emergent Village, which describes itself as “a growing, generative friendship among missional Christians seeking to love our world in the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” Both sites are worth checking out, and WhatsRemarkable.com is worth joining in on the conversation.
Great graphical representation of testing your download and upload speeds to certain servers around the world.
Over the last few months, I’ve been a freelance wedding videographer for Crescent Video. They do some amazing wedding videos, a few of which you can see on their website. Last night, I filmed a wedding at the Tarrytown Methodist Church in Austin. Gary, owner of Crescent, told me the significance of this church. Along with being the church that our President, George Bush (G.Dub), attended while governor of Texas, it was also the place where, reportedly, Barbara Bush whispered into her son’s ear, “I think God wants you to be President.”
The wedding went off with only one hitch – that of the bride to the groom. The reception was at the Driskill Hotel in downtown Austin. (Yes, my wife was slightly jealous because she loves that hotel).
Also of note from this last week was my mom’s surgery. She had to have a piece of bone from her hip surgically removed and placed into her neck. This is the second time she’s had a procedure like this done. She came through surgery just fine, but couldn’t keep fluids down for a couple of days. Fortunately, she’s back home (well, at her mother’s house) and will be recuperating for the next six weeks, which is good, because she needs a lot of down time.
As my sister had the nightwatch with my mom, my wife and I got to take care of her two kids, both girls, both 4 1/2 years of age – twins, to be precise. We’ll skip all the descriptives and just say that I don’t know how my sister does it.
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