It looks like Google Romance is a new endeavor by the search engine giant Google to help those who looking for better match making options. There is a beta supposedly being talked about on Slashdot and Digg.
My top ten links for Sunday night ...
A kindergarten teacher gave her class a "show and tell" assignment.
Each student was instructed to bring in an object to share with the class that represented their religion.
The first student got up in front of the class and said, "My name is Benjamin and I am Jewish and this is a Star of David."
The second student got up in front of the class and said, "My name is Mary. I'm a Catholic and this is a Rosary."
The third student got in up front of the class and said, "My name is Tommy. I am Lutheran, and this is a casserole."
An elderly woman walked into the local country church.
The friendly usher greeted her at the door and helped her up the flight of steps.
"Where would you like to sit?" he asked politely.
"The front row please." She answered.
"You really don't want to do that," the usher said. "The pastor is really boring."
"Do you happen to know who I am?" the woman inquired.
"No." he said.
"I'm the pastor's mother," she replied indignantly.
"Do you know who I am?" he asked.
"No." she said.
"Good," he answered.
Our pastor read a reported essay from long-time radio broadcaster Paul Harvey entitled "If I was the Devil" during a recent Sunday sermon.
There is some question on whether or not the source is really Mr. Harvey according to the following Google search link.
The essay contents though are powerful no matter who wrote them.
Uprising is the theme this year - San Diego's conference start last night (very good) and continues today. It is really good idea to get your soul refreshed on a regular basis.
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has announced a new redesigned website.
Anyone who personally knows me, and isn't aware of my faith, would be shocked at the notion that I could be a "counselor" at a Billy Graham event. Well it is true. I had the distinct pleasure of being called to be a counselor three of the four nights of the May 2003 San Diego event.
It was amazing how God can make you extremely uncomfortable and at the same time joyful beyond reason.
There are two events in 2004 coming up: Kansas City (Oct) and Los Angeles (Nov). If you have a chance to serve, I hope you will.
It looks like my "cross post" of the blog item "God Isn't Done With Us Until 'She' Is" has been removed from the David Allen forums. Actually not a big deal to me. It is their server, they can do with the data that they please.
As a Christian, when I read something that I consider to be secular that has a spirtual point in it, I always seem to have to stop and try to see if it is Biblical or not.
I am a big fan of David Allen especially on his thoughts and processes related to "task managment." Since May04 I have been pretty dedicated to applying his methods, and I have seen some significant and in many ways vast improvement in my level of performance and completness.
Mr. Allen has a new book out called "Ready for Anything" that gives you two-three page refreshers on his ideas (52 of them) from his first book "Getting Things Done." This morning was "Clearing Your Head For Creativity" and this is was my interesting paragraph:
"One of the greatest challenges we must face at some point in our lives is that our sense of self-worth cannot hang solely on our inventory of what we've created. If all we'd done were to disappear - at this moment - we have to know that we will continue to have value and that we can create from scratch what we need or want. We have to know that no matter how finished we think we are, God isn't done with us until she is."
As I started reading this message, I was thinking 'Wow ... this could get into a simple Evangelistic message.' And then there is a mention of God (Supreme beeing) and then "SHE" is in control ... WHAT?!? SHE ... it must be a typo I am reasoning. Because otherwise this would be very un-BIBLICAL.
The Gideons still continue to distribute Bibles throughout the world. Their driving scripture verse is from 1 Kings 8:60 "That al people of the earth my know ..."
One of the things that seems to be a 'back seat story' currently happening in the world is the genocide and slavery currently happening in Sudan's Darfur region (reportedly over 80,000 have been killed). You can learn more at iAbolish.com.