Website
Jan 31, 2008 Uncategorized
Ever see a website on an advertisement and think to yourself “I’ll have to look at that site when I get home.”
Good luck remembering this one I saw on a truck yesterday:
I’m Whole Again!
Jan 30, 2008 Uncategorized
I finally got my eyebrow re-pierced today! Yay. Here’s a picture of me with Renee, my piercer extraordinaire.
Riverview Building Progress
Jan 24, 2008 Uncategorized
Nate just sent me some great pictures of the new building interior. Here are a couple:
Yup, that’s me in the hardhat in the last picture.
HEMA
Jan 24, 2008 Uncategorized
Thanks to Rick for sending me this link to HEMA’s website. Hema is like Target in the Netherlands. I have a shirt and some pads of paper I bought there.
Trust me. Just go to their site and enjoy.
This is Freakin’ Insane!
Jan 18, 2008 Uncategorized
Check out these two news reports I heard back to back on the radio this morning. Note the sections I have bolded.
Gordon Douglas Leathers, 51, faces up to life in prison if convicted of armed robbery.
Kent County sheriff’s investigators said Leathers robbed the restaurant Jan. 6 by threatening the 19-year-old cashier with a hammer and demanding that she give him the cash in the register. The Grand Rapids Press said Leathers was arrested in his vehicle shortly afterward.
Gagnon faces up to 50 years in prison if he is convicted on five aggravated vehicular homicide charges and two aggravated vehicular assault charges. He will remain in the Lucas County jail.
Police say Gagnon, whose blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit according, was driving north on the southbound lanes of Interstate 280 on Dec. 30 when he slammed into the minivan of Danny Griffin, a former Livonia resident driving back with his family to their home in Parkville, Md.
Killed in the accident were his wife Bethany Griffin, 36; her children Lacie Burkman, 7; Haley Burkman, 10; and 2-month-old Vadie Griffin, all of Parkville, Md.; and her stepdaughter Jordan Griffin, 10, of Redford Township. Danny Griffin, as well as his daughter Sydney Griffin and stepson Beau Burkman, 7, survived.
Does this seem odd to anyone else?
A guy robs a Subway with a hammer and may go away for life.
Another guy gets hammered, drives down the highway the wrong way, kills a family and is only faced with 50 years?
That seems whack to me.
Seriously…
Jan 17, 2008 Uncategorized
Why did this make me all happy inside?
Dang it. I really am a child of the 80s.
OK…now I can’t wait till Spring
Jan 17, 2008 Uncategorized
My wife has been complaining about winter already and I have been fine with it.
Until now.
Until Kirk emailed me this video, which also answers the question:
“Why do I think riding a bike on the street is boring?”
Walk The Razor
Jan 17, 2008 Uncategorized
Since this site has 4 times the number of regular readers as my new site Walk The Razor, I thought I would take the time to pimp it a bit.
If you want to hear me talk about masturbation on my podcast…
If you want to read my more focused ministry blog…
If you want to dialog all month with me about sex…
Head over to WalkTheRazor.com and subscribe. You know you want to!
And if you are too lazy and want me to email you every time I update the site, just fill out this form to sign up:
Che Guevara’s hair sold at auction
Jan 17, 2008 Uncategorized
(via BBC NEWS)
Strands of hair said to have been taken from the corpse of Ernesto Che Guevara by a former CIA operative have sold for $119,000
Anyone else see the big huge irony to this?
Back from Vacation
Jan 11, 2008 Uncategorized
After this last weekend at Riverview, I seriously needed some downtime. Luckily, we had our vacation Christmas (on my wife’s side) scheduled for the week in Chicago. We just rolled back into town last night and I thought I’d share a few pictures with you:
We visited an amazing Korean buffet that had this sign over the plates:
Oddly enough, this sign was on the wall behind the other sign:
So which is it? While eating, Ethan was wearing his hat like this. Remind you of anyone?
Coley got a new guitar and would spend long periods just sitting by himself, jamming,
We went ice skating. Here’s Emma and I:
Blades of Glory:
Training a young Stranz Van Waldenberg:
Oh, I forgot to mention the other boys got guitars, too.
Quote of the Day
Jan 11, 2008 Quotes
Via Best Week Ever:
Paula Abdul is reportedly “in talks” to perform at the Super Bowl next month. Fingers crossed, because a crazy lady on pills running around the 50 yard-line and crying while “Opposites Attract” plays on a loudspeaker would undoubtedly be the awesomest halftime show ever.
History Lesson from Michael Cera
Jan 8, 2008 Uncategorized
I hate to admit it, but I think a lot more history would be learned in our classrooms if we taught it more like this. Too bad it’s not entirely accurate.
Thanks to Monkeys For Helping:
Exposed
Jan 6, 2008 Uncategorized
Holy cow.
This weekend we launched our new series at Riverview. We’re calling it Exposed and we’re examining how both culture and religion have it wrong when it comes to our sexuality. This message is a direct result of our PostSecret series, where we learned that the single largest issue facing the people in our church is our sex lives.
Honestly…this is the first time I am teaching a series I initially didn’t want to teach. Not that I wanted to avoid it or anything–it’s just that I had a whole lot of other ideas. Every time I started working on them, I couldn’t get any traction and I found myself being drawn back to this topic. I really feel like this is what we need to go through at this time.
And after the first weekend, I can tell we were right. I have never been so physically and emotionally drained after a weekend at Riverview. Literally every minute between and after each service was filled with people sharing their stories, arguments, objections, and the like. In fact, I got done talking with someone literally 5 seconds (I’m not exaggerating) before I had to walk on the stage for the 11:30ish service.
Nate captured the brilliant set he and Kristie put together for the series over on his blog. Make sure you check it out. Here’s one of the pictures he took:
Over at WalkTheRazor.com, I am dedicating the month of January to the topic of sex to go along with this series. So, if you haven’t checked out that site yet, now is the time to do so. That will be a place we can discuss this series in more depth in between the weekend services and hopefully I’ll slap up a few new podcasts as well.
Alright, I seriously need a nap.
Human Tetris
Jan 4, 2008 Uncategorized
OK, this is freakin’ brilliant. (If you go to their site you can see other games like Pong, Space Invaders, and Pole Position).
Wii Got One
Jan 3, 2008 Uncategorized
Well, we finally broke down and got the kids a Wii for Christmas this year. It’s fun to have a gaming system we can all get into…even Coley:
Headline of the Day
Jan 1, 2008 Uncategorized
(via The Onion)
Nation’s Crumbling Infrastructure Probably Some Sort Of Metaphor
