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Month: September 2008

  • The Green Bible…REALLY?

    I’m on the road in Dixon, IL for work right now and was reading Time magazine (pg. 57 of the 9/29/2008 issue) while I took a break from working (I usually put in really long days when I am on the road because I don’t have anything better to do so it is not irregular for me to work a 14 – 16 hour day, including travel time, when I am on the road) and I ran across an article talking about the The Green Bible.  REALLY?  Talk about majoring on the minors…from what I can tell, it doesn’t highlight the words of Jesus but all the verses that deal with the environment are in forest green.  Don’t get me wrong, I am all for stewardship, but c’mon…is this really what we want to focus on?  I thought we were supposed to be leading the charge not following the new green tree hugging fad that is going around our culture right now.  Do I think that Christians should be leading the charge when

    it comes to being better stewards of the Earth?  You Bet!  Do I think these guys missed the boat completely, You Bet!  Anyway, enough of my rant…have a great night.

  • Ronald will smite thee!!!

    OK, this one is for my loyal readers (you have to be loyal if you are reading this because I post so infrequently).

    I am in a training class down in Chicago and we pricelined my hotel and got a really good deal.  After my training class I found a Taco Bell and grabbed a quick bite to eat.  Then I drove to my hotel and realized that it was on the campus of the McDonals Corporation so here I am taking my soda from Taco Bell walking into the hotel that is connected to Hamburger University saying “Oh great Ronald McDonald please do not smite me or kick me in the butt with those big red shoes.”  Anyway, it was a good hotel, I had to pay for internet which was kind of crappy but oh well.

    Completely different subject…when I grew up we always watched Monday Night Football as a family.  We would skip dinner and have MNF snacks.  Well, with the Packer’s game on

    MNF last week we started that tradition with our family.

    On a completely unrelated note…Caleb is now able to go to Kids Junction with Mandy…in order to do that we needed to get him school supplies including as Caleb calls it his “backack” (backpack for those of you who don’t speak 1 year old speak).  He looks really cute with his backack

    I hope you are having a great week, I will talk to you later.

    Jeff

    P.S. – btw…things are going pretty well for us, one of these days when we aren’t so busy I will write a post updating on how things are going.