Here are a few of the things I was pondering today while I sat outside watching Emma play in her sandbox:1. What is the goal of the church in America? I know that we want to see individuals receive God's grace and salvation, but we also want to change… more »

The weather was great this morning. It was one of the smoothest plane rides I've ever had, including commercial jets. What's even better is that I got to play with the new GPS receiver (Airmap 500) that my dad got (right). The curvy line is the trail… more »

Adrian from the airHere's a picture of Adrian I took from an airplane my dad was flying. Click on the picture to see a bigger version that has an arrow pointing to my house. (Click on the arrow to make my real house shudder from the pain of the… more »

Here are a couple of my favorite quotes from Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton:On the evolutionary basis you may be inhumane, or you may be absurdly humane; but you cannot be human. That you and a tiger are one may be a reason for being tender to a tiger.… more »

To whom it may concern (everyone):I was pondering the internation impact of my blog and so I used Babelfish to translate this website into German. It seemed to work great. But since I don't speak German I decided to copy my most recent post from the… more »

Good news. Our 3 swordtails are still very healthy and active. Yesterday I picked up 3 platies at Walmart. I think the particular variety is called Sunset Fire Platy or Xiphophorus maculatus, which is Latin for "Likes to eat its own babies". They… more »

Here's something cool. I've mentioned that Bible Gateway is a good resource, but it just got better. I noticed today that you can now search The Message Bible. It's a recent paraphrase that is supposed to be pretty interesting and fun to read. I've… more »

Thanks to Brendan for finding this:Walking directions from Shire to Mordor If Frodo had just used MapQuest, his trip would have been a lot easier (and the 3 movies would have been 45 minutes instead of 9 hours.) more »

My friend Ryan broke his leg last Friday during the football game. Click here to see the x-ray of his leg. The good news is that Ryan is back home and doing well. He was feeling healthy enough to beat me in 3 straight games of NCAA Football 2004 on… more »