tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30237062008-02-21T12:37:57.676-05:00Thought CrimeGlenBlogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-75586003761513054562008-02-21T06:40:00.007-05:002008-02-21T11:12:36.958-05:00The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA)(from my email)... WASHINGTON , DC 2/8/08- Congress is considering sweeping legislation which will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition. "Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-16854890613523233012007-12-11T09:08:00.000-05:002007-12-11T09:51:31.141-05:00From my email: For Christmas, a wish listSetting up a new workshop? There is a lengthy list of tools you'll need. This list will help you get started: DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly stained heirloom piece you were drying.WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-87067970677998979352007-11-28T10:35:00.000-05:002007-11-28T10:36:32.280-05:00Another From My Email: Computer Tips (Worldstart.com)Online Medical Advice It's that time of year again. Yep, all the colds, the flu and everything in between are back again. So, wouldn't it be nice to have some place you could go for fast medical advice? Well, I've got just the thing for you today! This is the perfect tip for just about anybody. It doesn't matter how old you are, we all have to go to the doctor at some point or another. And let's Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-25306524231355696312007-11-28T09:34:00.000-05:002007-11-28T09:37:31.359-05:00Not another call to arms (The Golden Compass)From My EMAIL: Warning about The Golden Compass Just want us all to be informed about a "holiday" movie coming out this season. Visit the snope.com website (link below). You will find out this is not an "urban legend". Very sad...Just a warning about a children's movie coming out this Christmas starring Nicole Kidman about children that end up killing God. They are hoping that unsuspecting Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-52606731135679315802007-11-23T13:01:00.000-05:002007-11-23T15:59:48.307-05:00Photos: Our New Family Addition A new dog is in town. Introducing Munch!          Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-62257978925507365332007-11-23T12:08:00.000-05:002007-11-23T12:09:36.706-05:00RZIM: Sacred DebtJill Carattini "Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill." So goes the counsel of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and his advice is worth contemplating. Do you feel pressure to reciprocate when someone treats you to lunch? Do you find yourself repaying kindness for kindness, compliment for compliment, and so on? You are far from alone if you do. According to sociologists, this sense of obligation, whichGlentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-24151872665050985772007-11-13T09:04:00.000-05:002007-11-13T09:21:29.661-05:00From My Email: Military exceptsThe first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps. So much for allies. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-50165340394569434102007-11-05T10:57:00.000-05:002007-11-05T10:59:00.543-05:00Back to the BookSeven ways to ignite a passion for reading the Bible.By Kathy Widenhouse In Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Kathleen Norris recounts the story of a South Dakota rancher and his bride who received an expensive Bible as a wedding gift from his grandfather. They wrote a thank-you note and stowed the Bible away on a closet shelf. As time passed, the grandfather repeatedly asked the couple how Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-11578355466187873012007-10-31T14:57:00.000-04:002007-10-31T15:55:11.691-04:00Honoring the WitnessesOctober 31Chuck ColsonBreakpoint It is Halloween again, and to be frank, I really don't look forward to talking about it on "BreakPoint" every year. At best, Halloween has become an excuse to ask total strangers for candy. At worst, it is a celebration of the mindless paganism our ancestors wisely turned their backs on. So this year, I would like to turn your attention to the often-overlooked Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-6213509679939312992007-10-25T15:57:00.000-04:002007-10-25T16:01:13.433-04:00Homer Simpson's Words of WisdomAh, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life's problems. Who are you? Why am I here? I want answers now or I want them eventually!Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything!That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-14920803574204895012007-10-24T22:19:00.000-04:002007-10-24T22:25:19.064-04:00On Location - Sam I Am (Scar Tissue)October 15, 2007Ed Young Ministries Weekly Devotionalby Ed YoungWho we are today is a direct result of our past.  We all have scars and wounds from the words and actions of others and from our own failures and mistakes.  But for the Christ-follower this is not the end of the story. As the Spirit of God uses the Word of God to remake us into new creations, these scars from the past become steppingGlentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-20734012950805781642007-10-15T21:01:00.002-04:002008-02-21T11:08:21.487-05:00from Man In The Mirror: How Christian Men Get Caught Up In LiesOctober 15, 2007There are two languages in the world: truth and lies.The first language—the native tongue—of every man is the language of lies. When the Father of lies was our father, “lies” was the only language we knew.Before I became a Christian I would often lie even if the truth could have served me better. It was my native tongue—a language that flowed freely from my lower nature.When we Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-3819008514863022082007-09-25T09:20:00.001-04:002007-09-25T09:20:54.997-04:00A believer... has been saved from the guilt of sin (justification, Eph. 2:8), is being saved from the power of sin (sanctification, 1 Cor. 1:18), and will be saved from the judgment and presence of sin (glorification, Acts 15:11). Regeneration is the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit in which a spiritually dead person is made alive in Christ (Ezek. 11:19–20; Titus 3:5).Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-14654142745725928422007-09-24T11:03:00.002-04:002008-02-21T11:05:38.310-05:00More on Bathsheba….from Pat Morley Volume 239July 16, 2007 I guess we struck a nerve with last Monday’s Weekly Briefing-"Every man has at least seen his Bathsheba. The attraction is not really the woman, but the ‘idea’ of the perfect version of that woman." Hopefully it was obvious that the early answers were the wrong ones. The idea was to let you "think out" the right answer for yourself. A few of you wanted my Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-25069091173900294132007-09-19T11:07:00.000-04:002007-09-19T11:11:40.254-04:00From 'The Book of Uncommon Prayers'The Apologist's Evening Prayer From all my lame defeats and oh! much more From all the victories that I seemed to score; From cleverness shot forth on Thy behalf At which, while angels weep, the audience laugh; From all my proofs of Thy divinity Thou, who wouldst give no sign, deliver me. Thoughts are but coins. Let me not trust, instead Of Thee, their thin-worn Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-62321891584469978392007-09-18T16:19:00.000-04:002007-09-18T16:23:43.504-04:00HumorDivorce: Future tense of marriage.Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water power.Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.Classic: A book which people praise, but do not Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-5483199303506792462007-09-17T08:57:00.000-04:002007-09-17T09:34:09.139-04:00Site SeeingMajor time waster and I do mean MAJOR! Of historic interest, Year by Year: 1900-2007 LockergnomeCore77 Hack To School Guide. Color pencils basics Massachusetts light stationsTop 9 fitness myths -- busted!Comic.com Alice Comics Yes, I am one of those: Intellectual Conservative Politics and PhilosophyThe fine art of Dan Reedand last but not least... the Hoverbox Image GalleryGlentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-37167447155711694352007-09-12T11:58:00.000-04:002007-09-12T12:01:30.737-04:00"A Little More Jesus, A Little Less Amway?" A Little More Jesus, A Little Less Amway? -- Brian Hollar, from Thinking on the Margin, wonders, " Whatever happened to Christians believing in the power of the Holy Spirit moving in the hearts of men? Why is it necessary to supplement the gospel with cheesy slogans and blatant manipulation?" (HT: Evangelical Outpost)Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-77151833247189788002007-09-11T08:39:00.000-04:002007-09-12T12:06:11.565-04:009/11: Michelle Maulkin says it allRemembrance and ResistanceGlentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-29423778322098792642007-09-07T16:31:00.000-04:002007-09-07T16:36:06.321-04:00Truly Human08/29/07Truly HumanJill Carattini"What does it mean to be human?" has been the inquiring theme of more than a few journals, conferences, and special reports. It is a question that is considered from anthropological, theological, and biological perspectives, from within medical, ethical, and spiritual circles. Yet regardless of the examiner, any plumbing of the depths of the nature of humanity is Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-45214776335926651032007-08-31T09:30:00.000-04:002007-08-31T09:34:30.048-04:00Starbucks SpiritualityConsider the bumper sticker: "Dear God, please save me from your followers." Or the ubiquitous Christian "fish" that has mysteriously grown feet courtesy of the Darwinian crowd—a symbol of faith sarcastically twisted by the culture.read the restGlentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-81426229446272736072007-07-31T16:42:00.001-04:002007-07-31T16:43:39.008-04:00GK ChestertonThe thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-37525569747594200702007-07-23T11:02:00.000-04:002007-07-23T11:14:13.524-04:00Ruth's Graduation PicturesI got some of the names wrong, but here they are!Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-87986438722391813422007-07-23T10:59:00.000-04:002007-07-23T11:00:26.666-04:00Rock of AgesRock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee; Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power. Not the labours of my hands, Can fulfill Thy law's demands; Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears for ever flow, All for sin could not atone: Thou must save, and Thou alone. Nothing in my hand I bring, Glentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023706.post-47883186914360763322007-07-12T12:35:00.000-04:002007-07-12T12:39:15.764-04:00Humor for Lexophiles (Lover of words):I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his Work. To write with a broken Glen