Our neighborhood made it into the newspaper and channel 13 news this year for our Christmas lights. Here is a link to a video made by a Real Estate Team in the area. Pretty cool. Shawn, the neighbor directly across from us - and sitting on the boat in the video - got it all …
Month: December 2014
Favorite Christmas Tradition
This is a link to my favorite Christmas tradition. It might become yours as well. And it has a unique history. The first Christmas after my dad came home from WWII, in the mid 1940s, he recorded "A Christmas Carol" as broadcast from England, with Alec Guinness in the part of Scrooge. Who knew Alec …
7 BEST Christmas Quotes
What do CS Lewis and Alice Cooper have in common? They both have made terrific, true, Christmas quotes. The quotes then. . . 1. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he though doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more! - Dr. Seuss …
My 3 Worst Reviews
Reviews either make you proud or paranoid. When the first Bizarre book was re-released in 2012, all the reviews started over. Three people seem a bit unhappy with their purchase. The book looked like a fun, light-hearted read: wrong. I admit I didn't finish the book and probably won't--which is unusual for me. It was …
Gene Getz Endorses Bizarre Bible Stories 2!
What a gracious guy! I had Gene for a class at Moody. When a student wouldn't stop calling him "Dr. Getz," he stopped teaching the class and told us about his struggles in ministry, his insecurities and perceived failures - and how that led to his desire to just be called "Gene." Other professors seem …
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Christmas, Christians and Wars
I was asked, "If Jesus came as the Prince of Peace, why has religion been the cause of most of the wars in the world?" Good question. I was surprised when researching an answer. Religion isn't the cause of most of our wars. According to the Encyclopedia of Wars, we have had 1763 recorded wars …
Worst Christmas Timing Ever
After Black Friday, After the shoppers went home and the gifts were hid, After the money was wasted, and the hot cocoa drunk, After the parents went to bed, relieved with yet another year of Christmas shopping behind them, Bizarre Bible Stories 2! left the printers for the bookstores. It's just... me, I think. So …
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