If anyone is interested, we are selling our Durango. To be honest I don’t really want to but it makes too much sense. I posted it on Craig’s List and you can view the ad here.
Dec 292007
Oh man, this has gotta hurt!!!
A two year-old Minnesota girl will have quite a tale to tell when she gets older…check out the full story here.
Dec 282007
Posts in this series...
- Lovers of Money (part 1)
- All about the Benjamins (part 2)
I am going to do a multi-post series on how I use my resources and how I observe Jesus taught on money and using resources. Melissa and I have been on a quest to reduce our monthly overhead by taking small steps in many areas of our budget. We haven’t done anything extraordinary or really anything all that original but really just an honest assessment of how we are using our money and how we would like to use our money. Over the past couple of years God has really been working me over in this area and left me with that as a Christian, I should be using my money totally different than a non-believer. The problem is, I have been sucked into too much of the gotta have it now, gotta have it my way mentality. Some questions that I am going to answer with this series:
- If I had zero debt and little overhead, what things would I choose to use my resources to benefit?
- If I used my resources more efficiently, how would that impact my spirituality?
- If I used my resources more for Jesus, how would that make a difference to my wife and kids?
- If I lived like I was using God’s money, what would that look like?
So if you are interested, take a journey with me and leave some comments if you like. I’ll detail out some very specific things that we have done to save tons of cash and how you can too. If there are some good suggestions left along the way by others, I’ll post them for everyone to see.
This is great….really illustrates the words of this song well. This Casting Crowns songs was good before but adding this creatvity to it takes it to the next level.
A couple of years ago I bought a shop vac and then a year later I bought an extension hose. 
Now whenever I need to clean out my gutters, I get out my ladder and just suck up all the leaves. I had the chance to do that today….the snow is melting and it was actually nice out.
Every once in a while one of my hair-brain ideas work.
Dec 212007
Oh man, this must have hurt!
Dec 202007
I’m not usually a big acapella fan but these guys are really good.
This is almost too goo to be true…and it happened in Grand Rapids!
Check it out here.
We need more stories like this.
Dec 152007
While I didn’t stick to my yearly plan this year, I am still considering giving it a go again in 2008. Here are a few plans that I am considering from gnpcb.org:
Devotions
Daily Light on the Daily Path. For over a century, Daily Light on the Daily Path has been a favorite devotional book of those who realize the tremendous benefit of reading and praying Scripture. Originally printed in the mid-1800s, Daily Light was born out of the devout faith of Samuel Bagster, a British bookstore owner determined to share his faith with his twelve children. The Bagsters’ daily practice of reading Scripture together, then connecting the day’s verses with other passages, inspired one of the children to compile their devotions for publication. The family discussed and prayed over the selection and arrangement of each verse until they were convinced that no further improvement could be made. After two years of prayer and consideration, the devotions were printed in two volumes for morning and evening reading.- Every Day in the Word. The popular reading plan features a reading from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs each day. This plan divides the text into 365 sections, so you can read through the entire Bible in one unforgettable year—in as little as 15 minutes a day. In one year, you read the Old Testament, New Testament, and Proverbs once, and the Psalms twice.
One-Year Tract Bible Reading Plan. This plan is based on the M’Cheyne reading system, featuring four different readings for use in both family and personal devotions. Each day has two passages from the Old Testament, one from the New Testament, and one from either the Psalms or the Gospels. In one year, you read the Old Testament once and the New Testament and Psalms twice.
Through the Bible in a Year. The online version of the popular tract. Each day includes a reading from the Old Testament and New Testament. Starting in Genesis and Matthew, the readings continue sequentially—over the course of a year, you never read the same passage twice.- Book of Common Prayer Daily Office Lectionary. This plan follows the Daily Office Lectionary found in The Book of Common Prayer (1979) used worldwide by Anglicans and Episcopalians.
Daily Reading Bible. Follows the reading plan found in the ESV Daily Reading Bible. Each day has one Old Testament reading, one New Testament reading, and one reading from the Psalms. You read the Old Testament once and the New Testament and Psalms twice over a year.- Chronological. Read the events of the Bible as they occurred chronologically. For example, the Book of Job is integrated with Genesis because Job lived before Abraham. This reading plan is copyright Back to the Bible.
Dec 152007
I am trying out this new photo service….ever heard of SmugMug?
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