I just found the first item for my Christmas list...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, August 02, 2010
Anne Rice leaves Christianity
Anne Rice leaves Christianity – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs
Anne Rice still believes in Jesus - she says that her faith in Christ is central to her life. She says she can no longer belong to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious and deservedly infamous group."
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
How to estimate church attendence
How to estimate church attendence: "It's a complex thing to measure church attendance but here are a few pointers on arriving at an accurate number based on the attendance figures they give you.
- 50% if its a Pentecostal worship service because they count the legs and forget to divide by two.
- 30% if its a Baptist church because they count members on the roll and not all of them are still living.
+ 10 if its a Vineyard service because those rugs on the floor were actually people!
+ 15% if it's an ethnic/non-western service because all those people coming late missed the counting.
- 10% if its a megachurch because the worship team and welcome team got counted during all 5 services.
- 520% if its a Catholic church because they count the parish, not the church attendance.
+ 20% if it's an emergent service because those having a smoke outside were not counted.
- 25 % if its a Reformed church service because they count the people who SHOULD have been there.
- 15% if it's a house church because the neighborhood kids playing video games in the back room somehow managed to get counted with everyone else. So did the guy delivering pizza.
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- 50% if its a Pentecostal worship service because they count the legs and forget to divide by two.
- 30% if its a Baptist church because they count members on the roll and not all of them are still living.
+ 10 if its a Vineyard service because those rugs on the floor were actually people!
+ 20% if it's a fundamentalist church because they don't count the people they didn't want there.
- 30% if it's an Anglican/Presbyterian/Methodist church because the number they gave you is from their huge Easter service.+ 15% if it's an ethnic/non-western service because all those people coming late missed the counting.
- 10% if its a megachurch because the worship team and welcome team got counted during all 5 services.
- 520% if its a Catholic church because they count the parish, not the church attendance.
+ 20% if it's an emergent service because those having a smoke outside were not counted.
- 25 % if its a Reformed church service because they count the people who SHOULD have been there.
- 15% if it's a house church because the neighborhood kids playing video games in the back room somehow managed to get counted with everyone else. So did the guy delivering pizza.
"
Thursday, October 22, 2009
How can we make your stay more enjoyable?
Here's a comment card from the hotel we stayed at during our vacation last month.
Chloe filled it out.
As you can see, she felt quite good about the hotel. Nothing but accolades and praise. Such a glowing response to the first question would suggest a customer at the height of contentment describing a perfect stay that wanted for nothing.
That is, until this 7-year-old reaches the second question. Where, I imagine, the light dawns oh so gloriously on the myriad possibilities that come with such an open-ended and generous inquiry.
Empowerment sets in at the mere thought of "What else can we do?" Well, why couldn’t that porter put her on the luggage cart and give her a ride up and down the elevator every time she enters the lobby.
Apparently, this sense of entitlement extends to the card’s final query, which she ignores, opting instead to continue her answer from the previous and potentially far more lucrative question.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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