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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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Monday, June 9, 2008
God Make Us ... Dead
As part of the One Prayer series going on now in over 1400 churches across the world, the following video was submitted by my church and presented this past Sunday for the evening worship.
It was a highly impactful presentation, with two Baptisms and several people in the congregation in tears throughout the corporate worship period following the presentation.
It's not a short video, but it is well worth watching.
OnePrayer.com - "God, Make us dead." - exchangemcc.org from shawnw on Vimeo.
Direct video link
Joe
It was a highly impactful presentation, with two Baptisms and several people in the congregation in tears throughout the corporate worship period following the presentation.
It's not a short video, but it is well worth watching.
OnePrayer.com - "God, Make us dead." - exchangemcc.org from shawnw on Vimeo.
Direct video link
Joe
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Indiana Flooding Worse Than I Thought
I'm fortunate enough to live just east of Indianapolis, where we have received much of the pummeling from recent rains, but where we were just missed by tornadoes that struck five miles north of us last week and flooding that struck just south and west of us this week.My family and I left the house around noon today to make our weekly Sunday commute to Terre Haute -- where my wife's family still lives -- so the kids could visit with their grandparents and we could go to church. We knew that Interstate 70 westbound was closed and chose an alternate route of US 40 -- the old National Road. Almost five hours later, we completed what would normally have been about an eighty minute drive.
At the intersection of US 40 and US 231, we waited for ten minutes (literally) at a stoplight while the traffic that was detouring from Interstate 70 to US 40 rolled past us. I guess I should have known then to seek an alternate alternate route.
About five miles east of Brazil, Indiana, we came to a screeching halt. Sitting in traffic that was backed up due to the detour, and creeping along at an average of about two miles an hour, it would have taken us over two hours just to get past Indiana Highway 59, where the detour would be routed back to Interstate 70. Instead of waiting, I turned around and tried to take the County Roads north to US 36.
After running into several heavily flooded, impassable roads, we found ourselves back on US 40, about four miles back from where we had started, having driven around in a circle, thanks to the closed roads.
Finally, I turned around again and went all the way back to US 231 and followed it north to US 36, entering Terre Haute from the north rather than the south.
It was literally four hours and forty-five minutes after leaving our home just east of Indianapolis that we arrived at my in-laws home. Wow, what a long drive! We saw much, much flooding, to include some homes that were clearly not inhabitable under several feet of water.
I knew we had seen lots of rain over the past couple of weeks, but it took this lengthy Sunday commute for me to see just how bad it really was. Hopefully things will dry out before the next raindrop falls.
Joe
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A Quick Pre-Voting Test for November
I was talking with someone at work today who said he had no intention of voting in November. I, of course, pounced on that one. He said he thinks that we should not be in Iraq, and that was part of the reason he wouldn't be voting.
This, my friend, is exactly why you must vote in the Presidential election this November. In fact, if you're having a hard time figuring out how to vote, I suggest you ask yourself the following question:
Which is worse, American troops in Iraq, or radical Islamic troops in America?
Go ahead, I think the answer is clear, which is why there is clearly only one way to vote in November: John McCain will not leave Iraq without victory. It is my personal belief that we should quickly end the war in Iraq, but that we can only end it in victory.
Go ahead, ask yourself the question. If you can honestly answer that you would rather have radical Islamic troops in America, then maybe you shouldn't vote in November. Maybe you should just voluntarily deport yourself.
Read more at RedState.com or Redstate Beta.
Joe
This, my friend, is exactly why you must vote in the Presidential election this November. In fact, if you're having a hard time figuring out how to vote, I suggest you ask yourself the following question:
Which is worse, American troops in Iraq, or radical Islamic troops in America?
Go ahead, I think the answer is clear, which is why there is clearly only one way to vote in November: John McCain will not leave Iraq without victory. It is my personal belief that we should quickly end the war in Iraq, but that we can only end it in victory.
Go ahead, ask yourself the question. If you can honestly answer that you would rather have radical Islamic troops in America, then maybe you shouldn't vote in November. Maybe you should just voluntarily deport yourself.
Read more at RedState.com or Redstate Beta.
Joe
Friday, June 6, 2008
Book Review: Germ by Robert Liparulo
I have just finished reading the third Robert Liparulo book in my library. He has only written three. This was actually his second book. I'm sort of glad I read it last.I first read Comes A Horseman, followed by Deadfall, both very compelling page-turners. It took me considerably longer to finish Germ than it did the other two. Not because it wasn't a good book. It was a very action packed, fast paced read, as two Average Joe American readers have commented in prior posts here. But there was just something too -- familiar, I guess, about it.
Germ is about a scientist who engineers a virus that, when released upon the population, will spread rapidly, giving ultimate control of the world to he who holds the cure -- which, of course, is the same scientist who engineered the virus. In a nutshell, that's the storyline. Everything that proceeds from there involves (a) a hired thug responsible for ensuring that enemies of the virus fail; (b) a group of protagonists that discovers the threat of the virus and risks their lives trying to stop the mad scientist; and (c) the hidden lair that the scientist is holed up in, making his evil plans for domination.
Now, I found this to be quite familiar to another story line that I have reviewed both here and here. This other story line is about a scientist who seeks a virus that, when released upon the population, will spread rapidly, giving ultimate control of the world to he who holds the cure -- which, of course, is that same scientist. In this case, the mad scientist finds the virus he desires as a mutation of a vaccine created by a leading pharmaceutical lab and engineers a way to force the mutation and to sustain. Slightly different method with the same result. Much of what proceeds from this story line involves (a) a hired thug responsible for ensuring that enemies of the virus fail; (b) a group of protagonists that discovers the threat of the virus and risks their lives trying to stop the mad scientist; and (c) the hidden lair that the scientist is holed up in, making his evil plans for domination. Wow. Seems like it could be the same story, right? Except that this second story, the epic Circle saga from author Ted Dekker, goes so much deeper into the story as to create two different worlds spanning some twelve novels to date.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Germ, and it is definitely a fast paced book worth the time spent reading it. But, if you haven't yet embarked on the journey that is the land of the Histories, please, read Black, Red, and White first. But don't stop there. Continue with the entire Circle saga. You won't be disappointed.
Then, when your finished, pick up the three works of Robert Liparulo. He's a solid, talented author whom I hope to see on the bookshelf again soon.
Joe
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