Grace and I drove to Asheville, NC last weekend to enjoy what RomanticAsheville.com told us was “peak color”. And they were right, it was beautiful. As we walked through the woods, I kept thinking of the quote below. We walked or drove past hundreds of thousands of trees and probably billions of leaves, each one glorifying its Creator, [...]
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Do It Again
Posted in environment, quotes, worship on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
remember the poor
Posted in Bible, church, environment on June 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
the oil spill off of the gulf coast is generating a storm of anger, protests, boycotts, and even some presidential smack-down. but the spill is not the largest in the history of the gulf of mexico, nor even one of the top ten largest in the world. so why have we not heard anger over other [...]
where are you when we need you, aquaman?
Posted in environment on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
these guys in blue cleaning the beaches are great but they are not getting to the root of the issue. my friend Bill just had me in stitches going on and on about how aquaman is missing his time to shine as he is probably the only one who can get to the root of [...]
Why I Love Memphis- The Farmer’s Market
Posted in culture, environment, food, Uncategorized, why i love memphis on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of our favorite places to go in Memphis is the Memphis Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings downtown. By saying this is one of the reasons I love Memphis, I’m not saying other cities don’t have great farmer’s markets. I’m just saying I love ours. It is a wonderfully colorful and eclectic mix of food, [...]
Pole Beans, Instinct and God
Posted in environment, gospel, Uncategorized, world view on May 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This year we started a vegetable garden in our backyard. This is a picture of the pole beans. When they were about three inches tall, we put a trellis in the middle of them. The next morning, some of the vines had already wrapped around part of the trellis. How did it know the trellis [...]
It’s All Going to Burn Up Anyway
Posted in Bible, environment, resurrection, world view on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Let me apologize in advance for following up Mitchell’s “Los Suns” post with another “liberal” post. For the past week we’ve been trying to figure out whether a trip to the Alabama coast was really going to happen or not. Vacations are not easy to come by for our family, so the tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico [...]
