Two More Reasons to Love Thanksgiving

Have any Thankgiving favorites?

Time To Go Back To The Island

It's ALMOST TIME! See any hints or clues? Discuss in the comments!!!
Check out the 1:35 & 2:25 marks... HERE is what I found

Star Wars - A Tribute

This is SO Awesome....
HT: MCC

Tough Times

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

~ Winston Churchill


I heard Clayton King use this quote in a teaching a few weeks ago and it has stuck with me.

Hope that you find encouragement in it today.

In, but not of

Brad showed this during Mars Hill this morning and it I thought it was so awesome that I had to share:



Do you ever do this? If so, when? Where? Maybe in your car, while you are doing yard work, or even walking down the busy streets? Do you care what people think?

I MET THE PRESIDENT!

President David Palmer that is.
And I use the term 'met' loosely.

Here is the story.
Yesterday I went to lunch with some friends and when I came back in to the lobby of my office (a 23 story building downtown - just so you get the feel) there was Dennis Haysbert being interviewed! I waited around for him to finish but was beat to a hand shake by a couple of aggressive ladies who immediately accosted him as he left the interview area. I didn't want to be "That Guy" and wait around - so I laughed and went back to work. Pretty cool though, as I really enjoy his acting.

OBAMA/PALIN 08!?

I am not making any political statement here - nor am I endorsing Howard Stern - but this just amazes me...




As does this...do people really think this? (skip forward until there is 30 seconds left)

Hello, My Name is GRACE

I heard Brant talking about this the other day on the radio and I thought it was awesome.

This lady in Texas bought another lady's house that was in foreclosure
and GAVE IT BACK TO HER.

They had never met before.

She saw her crying in the hallway and just felt "She needed help. That was it"

That was it.

Grace.

What are we doing for those we don't know or for those we do know who need help.

Wise Words

The opposite of poverty isn't wealth
The opposite of poverty is enough


I just read that over at Compassion.com
It blew me away.
It's so true.
And so real.
Yet the opposite of how we think.


Please visit Compassion
And if you can
Join me
And do something
About Poverty
About Hunger
About Health
About Hope

As American's we are part of the wealthiest 1% in the world and because of this we have the ability to change lives.

Do something

If you have to
Give up a daily Coke
Give up ONE meal out each month

The $32 you save
Can
Save
A
Life

Do something


My name is Matt and I approve this message

OK - I am off my soapbox now : )

What?! Me Worry?!

I was listening to a teaching recently and heard something that I really liked.

If you are worried about the economy, or the market. If you are worried about your money - all you have to do is take out your money and look at it...and it will point you in the right direction.

In the words of another "teacher" (and I use that term very loosely)

Don't worry 'bout a thing. 'Cause every little thing, gonna be alright...

Where is our trust? Do we act like it?

You say Tomato, I say Tomato...

I was reading this article on the new "Christian" movie Fireproof the other day and something caught my eye. (and no it was not Kirk Cameron's stunningly good looks.) Throughout the article most reference to Christians are either preceded or proceeded by the word Evangelical - i.e.

An atheist growing up, Cameron became an evangelical Christian at the age of 17 while he was playing Mike Seaver on the popular sitcom “Growing Pains.”

Cameron has an evangelical ministry called “The Way of the Master” with evangelist Ray Comfort, along with a camp for terminally ill children, Camp Firefly.

But then right after this last statement it drops the evangelical for the more contested Fundamentalist tag.

He has starred in three movies adopted from the “Left Behind” books, a series of apocalyptic novels that is popular with fundamentalist Christians.

So what does this mean? Are evangelical and fundamentalist simply interchangeable to the 'non-bias' media? Or is it that ONLY fundamentalist Christians like the 'Left Behind' books? Or are they just sneakily calling good 'ol Mikey Seaver a Fundamentalist? Or is this me reading too much in to something - Perhaps my mind isn't Fireproof enough...

You can read the whole article from MSNBC here

On Eggs

So working on the blog header got me thinking about Eggs. I don't know why...but it did. Anyways, here is what I was thinking about. WAY back in high school a group of friends and I thought it would be "fun" to go to the store, get some eggs and use them in a non traditional way. That's right we thought it would be fun to juggle! And by juggle I mean go egging. I know, I know. How could I do such a thing?! I blame it on being an idiot. Cool? OK, so we thought it would be fun to go egging. Now my friend lived in a heavily wooded area next to a road - perfect place to hide out and let the eggs fly. And fly they did. That night we laughed, threw eggs, and got chased through the woods! Looking back on that night - I can't believe I was involved in such debauchery - but you know what? Like my buddy Earl says "Karma is a funny thing." You see, about 5 years ago my wife and I were driving home from a friends house on Halloween. We had just enjoyed some delicious pumpkin pasta and good company. All was well. That is until we passed a car, heard some shouting, and then watched as an egg splattered on our windshield. "What a bunch of punks!" was my first first thought....then as my past collided with my present...literally - I tipped my hat to Karma and said OK - now we're even.