It was totally my fault, as I hit a fairly stationary curb. NO - this isn't a picture of my wreck. I put this one in so that the owner of the Ford I did wreck would maybe think, "Hey, at least it wasn't that bad." Today HAD to be perfect. It was our first …
Category: Confessions of an Idiot Pastor
I HATE THIS!
Not that I'm a bad sick person, but... Friday-Sunday I would have swore I got hit with an experimental nano-virus made up of millions of cat-like rabid living razor blades using my throat as a scratching post. Late Sunday the head was still congested and in pain, and I was coughing up all kinds of …
Bizarre Pastor Story
John Shuck, a Presbyterian pastor, doesn't believe in the God of the Bible. And yet, he claims to be a Christian. Which makes me wonder, "What is a Christian?" He wrote on an atheist website what he does believe. It goes like this, in his words: "Religion is a human construct The symbols of faith …
Happy Valentines!
We’ve given up on a Christmas letter. So – here is our Valentines letter, mostly written by Micah. Let the idiocy and merriment begin. Max: Still Mama Cooley’s favorite, even though he poops outside. It’s weird. Mama and Papa Cooley: Well they became grandparents, again in 2014, which is a bonus, I guess. The new …
A Sad, Wonderful, Stolen Blog of Thankfulness
Some Facebook posts should never have been written. Guilty. Some should be engraved in stone - like this one. It was written by Chad Barrett, a friend of around 30 years, whose daughter went home to heaven last year. Here is what he wrote: I was driving last night, and Caroline (our 9-year-old) was in …
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Do Women Write Better than Men?
Say it isn't so. It's so. Grammarly is a great little grammar checker website. It's made for English-challenged writers like myself. They did the research. I used to like Grammarly. The facts then. They did a survey of about 3000 people. 54% were men. 59% of those surveyed thought women were better writers. The men …
Best Verse in the Bible
I've never been one of those people who had a "life verse." There are 31,102 verses in the Bible. Do you really think God has just one for you to live your life by? I never thought so. Until now. Something special happened when I read this verse. It jumped off the page and into …
If I set God first, my world will be blessed.
I despise the "become a Christian and the rest of your life will be happy" theology. I remember the kids songs we sang in church. "Down in the dumps I'll never go." And, "I'm so happy, so very happy..." It was lousy health and wealth theology before Benny Hinn was cool. And now I'm saying, …
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Christmas Lights and Prayer
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 …
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 …
Dan Cooley - The Ir-Reverend 