Kris and I walk at Independence Grove on weekends, and the playground there has “rubber mulch.” (It’s cool to walk on.) We’ve also learned that many are using Rubber Mulch around their trees and bushes and plants. Rubber mulch is mostly recycled tire rubber. Who knows about this? Any experiences? Has anyone used this at home? Read more
The apostle Paul was a Jesus Creeder, and so in chp 27 of 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed, I look at the Jesus Creed in the hands of the apostle Peter when he ventured to establish churches in Asia Minor (Western Turkey today). |inline Read more
This post is from Peggy Brown. She gets to the very heart of what this blog is all about and we are grateful to her for this. The Parable of The Jesus Creeders By Peggy Brown (4/25/08) |inline Read more
Magnolia Pictures sent me a pre-release DVD of “The Life Before Her Eyes,” starring Evan Rachel Wood and Uma Thurman, and I feel obligated to offer my readers a review of this haunting, Flannery O’Connor-like movie. Each actress plays — Evan as a teenager and Uma as an adult — a woman named Diana. Diana is a free-spirited teenager — drugs, sex, attitude. As an adult, she is also a woman struggling to cope with the school shooting spree fifteen... Read more
Somewhere in high school both Kris and I read Alan Paton’s famous Cry, the Beloved Country, but it was so long ago that I had to read it again in preparation for our time in South Africa. Yes, it was a novel; yes, it was fantastic. |inline Read more
This is our last week in our Preparing for Pentecost series. We are looking at themes/chps in 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed and this week we’ll look at people and authors in the NT who expanded the Jesus Creed into their own worlds. We look today at the apostle John. |inline Read more
I have to admit; I love what Paraclete did with this. Read more
O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
What’s the best of Rob Bell’s Noomavideos? Why? Read more
We are now brewing a wonderful tasting and richly aromatic coffee, a fair trade coffe, called Ictus Fair Trade Kaffe, Cafe de Chiapas. Read more
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