Old Lady Thoughts

Found this blog post and thought I would share.

Harold isn't a Muslim either.


and for some fun,

TV Ads for the ELCA

I just finished watching the new TV ads made by the ELCA, I found them very interesting and thought provoking.

See the Ads here.

It is important to begin to use the avenue of television which has been so far dominated by mainly fundamentalist non-denominational groups that I feel are mainly concerned about personal growth and self satisfaction and tend to ignore helping those in need. Both of the ads speak to the two areas that are needed. Working with the needy of our nation and the needy of the world. Personal Growth is very important but the purpose of personal growth should be to then use that growth to help others, not just further help yourselves.

I would like to see further use of television within the ELCA. One random thought that I had once was would it be possible for the ELCA to work with other denominations to form a cable television channel. There are many non-denominational channels, and there is a Roman Catholic channel. I would find it interesting to create a channel across a broad range of main-stream Protestant denominations. Programming such as worship services from the different denominations, group discussions with theological leaders, and individual denominational programming.

In this increasing technological environment we need to begin to embrace and utilize this technology and this seems to be a good start.

VP Debate and Economy Stuff

Random clips and stuff about the election and the economic downturn.

VP Debate:

From Crooks and Liars: The nights most powerful moment.

Couric and Palin Interview:

Saturday Night Live:



Economy:

SNL:



Daily Show:

The Office

I love the TV show "The Office" Just got the 4th Season on DVD.

Here is a compelation of "That's what she said" jokes from the show, a huge running gag.

New Site and Sermons

Hello all,

I have started a secondary blog to contain sermons and any other long documents that I post. This allows me to keep the length of posts down on the main blog while still adding sermons and stuff.

Here are the links to the first two sermons.

August 10th

August 17th

you can still stay with this site as I will add brief posts to update when the other blog is updated.

Faith Lutheran

Pics of Faith Lutheran in Booneville, AR.

Faith Lutheran

St. Luke Lutheran

Here is the album of St. Luke.

St. Luke

Arkansas!!

Hey all,

I have now been in Arkansas about a two and a half weeks, whew. And I already have two sermons down (well three if you count giving one twice at both a Saturday and a Sunday service).

Here is a link to some pictures of my house.

New House

Hope all is well, pics of both churches will be up in the next couple posts.

Michael Phelps is Awesome

In a quote from a satirical article talking about how the gold medals being given out at the Olympics may have high quantities of lead in them.

"I am very, very concerned about my extensive contact with gold medals," Mr. Phelps told reporters. "But what am I supposed to do? Stop being so awesome?"

Codex Sinaiticus

Quick Post here.

They have started to put the Codex Sinaiticus online. This is one of the oldest copies of the Christian Bible in Greek including old and new. Most complete Greek versions of the New Testament used to translate into English are prepared from this codex.

http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/