Jitterbugging for Jesus

Just because we’re flying to Juarez on our church mission trip today—you didn’t think we were going to neglect to give you your regular Thursday band-de-drum therapy, did you? His greatness Todd: I don’t want to work I want to bang on the drum all day I don’t want to play I just want to [...]

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JITTERBUGGER NOTE: As we get ready to rock to Juarez, Mexico, on our church mission trip today . . . . We will be doing some blogging using our trusty i-HOP-phone, until our return trip to Dallas Monday evening. It may be a bit limited since we’re going to be all about this mission of [...]

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I love the story of little Zacchaeus from Luke 19. Here’s spiritual writer Joyce Rupp’s take on it: “Come and stay at my house today” By Joyce Rupp* Jesus, this Lent I am yearning to wear a Zacchaeus heart. I am wanting to hear you call my name just as you did his. I am [...]

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Irena Sendler was a heroine, but pretty much unsung as heroines go. Here’s background, excerpted, on her from Louis Bülow at “The Holocaust: Crimes, Heroes and Villians” (www.auschwitz.dk): ———– The Holocaust – the systematic annihilation of six million Jews – is a history of enduring horror and sorrow. The charred skeletons, the diabolic experiments, the [...]

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From National Geographic online: Elephant, Kenya Photograph by Michael Nichols A rainbow streams over a lone elephant as it walks in Samburu National Reserve, a little-known jewel of northern Kenya that teems with wildlife. In the top photo: Photograph by U.S. Navy: The second atomic bomb tested in Operation Crossroads. From the book National Geographic [...]

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Little did we know when we posted a video of the late and the great Rev. Johnny Cash (he was an ordained Baptist minister, BTW) the other day that His Greatness’s birthday is coming up. Actually we’ve posted a couple of Cash vids this week: One of him with The Highwaymen (your Tuesday afternoon music [...]

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What follows is only an excerpt from the whole of Samuel Clemens’ anti-war yarn. Twain’s “War Prayer” was so powerful–so potentially offensive and explosive–that his publisher wouldn’t touch it while the great one was still alive. So tough-minded that his own family was rattled by it. “I have told the truth in that,” he said [...]

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Yes, Jesus Christ (i.e. God) is the same yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13: 8). However, times and duties and expectations do change. Only two things in life are certain, really: death and changes. From theologian Hendrik Hart* on the Bible, church and change: “Already in the Old Testament, Isaiah 56 prophesies that God’s [...]

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In the photo: Vernon Hunter, the IRS employee and Vietnam vet who was killed last week, with wife Valerie Hunter. Joe Stack murdered Hunter when he crashed his plane into the building where Hunter worked. This blog is on record as calling this murder what it was–an act of domestic violence. I can only imagine [...]

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This is the magic that happened when the four giants of country came together to form “The Highwaymen,” circa 1990. If this triple doesn’t give you goosebumps, have somebody check your pulse immediately if not sooner.

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