August 2010
1 post
“BCM: Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of...”
– Daniel Suarez — Freedom (TM)
May 2010
1 post
1 tag
Our Neighbor Congregation's Building Floats Away →
Here’s the video of the Hope House, an office building housing international ministry offices, floating down Mill Creek and crumbling under the bridge at I-24. Lighthouse Church and School is generally okay, but they have had some flooding in their preschool building. More rain is moving through, but the water is finally going through.
April 2010
2 posts
one forty plus.: Twitter Isn't "Over", I'm Over... →
Last week in Los Angeles I participated in a live Q&A as part of an ASCAP expo on songwriting. When the topic of Twitter came up, I explained my waning interest in it being part of my daily life. By no means do I think it’s over as a medium altogether, but I do think that the days of “Twitter: The…
“The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the...”
– Julian of Norwich
November 2009
1 post
“Seth Meyers chimed in: “Also, Centers for Disease Control, you sent the vaccine...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Virtuous Bankers? Really!?! - NYTimes.com
October 2009
1 post
“The gospel is the counterintuitive, joyous, exuberant news that Jesus has...”
– Quotation Marks | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
August 2009
1 post
Why I Moved to Google Chrome
Yesterday I reset my default browser from Firefox to Google Chrome. Over the weeks I found myself turning more and more to Chrome, finding it cleaner and faster. While I like the extensibility of Firefox, that extensibility also slows things down a bit, and Firefox still has a tendency to use a lot of memory in operation. Chrome is simpler (dumber, some might say) which means that it runs fast and...
April 2009
1 post
Why do online contact managers suck?
I have been trying for far too many years to find a good integrated solution for organizing my contacts. Every program I’ve found, be it Outlook or Plaxo (my two most commonly used applications) are pretty limited in their offerings, and don’t play well with others. I’ve held our hopes for Google contacts, but it simply isn’t quite there yet. I may be headed back to Outlook...
February 2009
2 posts
Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits →
Thirty states have struck such deals with banks that include Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., JP Morgan Chase and US Bancorp, an Associated Press review of the agreements found. All the programs carry fees, and in several states the unemployed have no choice but to use the debit cards. Some banks even charge overdraft fees of up to $20 — even though they could decline charges for more than...
Joe the Plumber advises GOP-ers →
When GOP congressional aides gather Tuesday morning for a meeting of the Conservative Working Group, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher – more commonly known as Joe the Plumber — will be their featured guest. This group is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who meet regularly to chart GOP strategy for the week.
May I go on the record at how bizarre this is? Someone please tell me what...
January 2009
8 posts
From The Mouths of Babes...
This note came to me from another member of the Nashville for All of Us coalition:
just thought i would share this with all you…while tucking in my 12 year old daughter i whispered in her ear that the english only amendment (of which she has heard me speak about at home) had been defeated…to which she smiled and then said that “now maybe people can start trying to find the good...
Zimbabwe Is Dying - NYTimes.com →
The hospital’s surgical wards were closed in September. A doctor described the heartbreaking dilemma of having children in his care who he knew would die without surgery. “I have no pain medication,” he said, “some antibiotics, but no nurses … If I don’t operate, the patient will die. But if I do the surgery, the child will die also.”
Random Song Lyric -- God of the Ages
This chorus came to me today and I will be working on a lyric to match:
God of the Ages, we know you are here.
God of all Wisdom, come whisper in our ears.
For we are broken, and we are weak.
God of the Ages, speak.
(c) 2009 J Voorhees
How to Repair a Broken Financial World -... →
The End of the Financial World as We Know It -... →
Medical myths Part 2 →
Festive medical myths →
This is a new...
This is a new use of my Tumblr account as I’m going to start using it for phone updates from dial2do. I hope that you will bear with my (?) that I make out on the road.
http://dial2do.com/19cl3y2
September 2008
3 posts
No Interviews Till She's Ready →
A senior McCain campaign official advises that, despite the gaggle of requests and pressure from the media, Gov. Sarah Palin won’t submit to a formal interview anytime soon. She may take some questions from local news entities in Alaska, but until she’s ready — and until she’s comfortable — which might not be for a long while — the media will have to wait.
Musician, actor Jerry Reed dies at 71 | →
RIP to a great picker.
June 2008
2 posts
The Great Seduction by Debt →
There are dozens of things that could be done. But the most important is to shift values. Franklin made it prestigious to embrace certain bourgeois virtues. Now it’s socially acceptable to undermine those virtues. It’s considered normal to play the debt game and imagine that decisions made today will have no consequences for the future.
My people are more important than yours... →
“A lot of people are asking, ‘What does Hillary want?’” Clinton told supporters at a rally in New York. “I want what I have always fought for: I want the nearly 18 million people who voted for me to be respected and heard.”
Uh … EXCUSE ME!!! What about the 18 million people who voted for Senator Obama? Shouldn’t they be respected and heard as well?
May 2008
3 posts
Green Vehicles →
These are very cool. If I had a spare $20,000 I would seriously think about getting one.
What's up with Facebook?
I know that Twitter has taken responsibility for the problem in updating the Facebook status, but my Google IG widget for Facebook has been down all day and I’m wondering if there are some problems with the infrastructure at Facebook. One of the reasons I have like Facebook as my primary social networking site is its ability to interact with other services. Hopefully this will be fixed soon....
“It is hard to remember a time when more shifts in the global balance of power...”
– Thomas Friedman Imbalances of Power - New York Times
April 2008
1 post
The Personalized Faith
I have generally responded negatively to much contemporary worship music for its individualistic tone. Much of it is “me” centered, and I have bemoaned the lack of worship resources that worship God in a communal context. In researching a sermon on Psalm 23 today, I was struck by how often the Psalms use individualistic language in their worship. I haven’t done a comparison yet,...
March 2008
2 posts
“So the fact that 4,000 men and women serving in the U.S. armed forces have been...”
– Eugene Robinson - 4,000 Dead for What? - washingtonpost.com
February 2008
5 posts
“But there is something essentially countercultural about Christianity that...”
– Michael Gerson - Faith Without a Home - washingtonpost.com
30 Day Sex Challenge
YBOR CITY, Fla. - A southwest Florida church issued a challenge for its married members this past Sunday: Hanky panky every day. Relevant Church head pastor Paul Wirth says the 50 percent divorce rate was the catalyst for The 30-Day Sex Challenge. ADVERTISEMENT “And that’s no different for people who attend church,” Wirth said. “Sometimes life gets in the way. Our jobs get...
Message from Lafayette UMC
I have been in contact with some of the persons responsible for the disaster response here in Lafayette. Today the community is in the process of discerning what is needed, and in what order. It is not possible to rush this process, even though there are so many persons who want to help. Please be patient and work through established channels or offers of help can become distractions...
Speaking Gigs This Weekend...
Saturday Workshop leader for Warmth in Winter at the Nashville Convention Center Sunday Preaching at the Antioch United Methodist Church Workshop leader at the Murfreesboro District Training Event in Tulluhoma
“We’ve elected two boomers in a row, and it would be surprising if America...”
– David Ignatius - Choosing Among Generations - washingtonpost.com
January 2008
5 posts
“[Obama] talks about erasing old categories like red and blue (and implicitly,...”
– The Two Earthquakes - New York Times
“In all of this, we may be tempted to cynicism, because “there’s no one to...”
– Brian McLaren
“On his most recent visit, he said, a waitress gave him and his wife’s...”
– ‘Hearty eater’ claims buffet banned him - Yahoo! News
Christvertising →
This has got to be a sendup … surely no one really is doing this for real.
July 2007
1 post
My pownce page →
June 2007
3 posts
Now that the IPhone is the hot product released, do you think it might be possible actually get some Wii’s on the shelf?
Prayers for Dixon
Our friend, Dixon Kinser, just learned of the death of his brother, Edward. Please keep Dixon and family in your prayers.
Well this works when nothing else will...
My hosting company has pretty well crashed, so it’s nice to be able to come here and bitch about it. I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m ready for them to get their act together.
May 2007
3 posts
“(PARIS) — Formula One team McLaren is being investigated for a possible rule...”
– I had no idea that Brian McLaren would EVER break the rules… :) Formula One Win Being Investigated | TIME
Festival of Homiletics Info
Many folks at the Festival of Homiletics gathering yesterday wanted more information on the songs shared and other elements of the worship service. Please give us a day or two to pull this together, but we will be posting more information soon.
It's a travesty, but we can still buy her records!
[Melinda] Doolittle will participate in the Idol tour that will run July 6 through Sept. 22. (Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. for the tour’s July 11 stop in Nashville.) Doolittle described the album she will make as “just soul music, anything from the heart.” She said, “I love a groove. I love anything where I can tell a story.”
Upbeat Doolittle ready to just...
April 2007
5 posts
Talking to Myself
Me: I really need to stay up an work on my sermon.
Myself: Yeah, but you are too tired and your back hurts.
Me: That's no excuse when it comes to preparing the Word of God.
Myself: I think God doesn't mind when he knows that the Word will be garbage if you don't sleep.
Me: Okay, snooze time it is.
“Lord, I cannot help but wonder
what disrupted this young man’s life
so...”
– Safiyah Fosua via GBOD | Worship
'American Idol' says sayonara to Sanjaya - Yahoo!... →
Well it’s about time!