As part of our efforts to live simply and more naturally, we’ve improved our diet, eliminated household chemicals, and now have a new all natural mattress. What’s wrong with a normal spring mattress? Formaldehyde and boric acid are ingredients in the flame retardant coatings, the synthetic material doesn’t breathe, and the springs create pressure points. These [...]
In addition to giving our Bible blog a facelift, we also recently held a contest to get a new name. One was chosen, and Blogging the Bible has now become The Blog Testament! The new home is at www.blogtestament.com. Once there, you can still find all your favorite old posts (hopefully), and find links to [...]
This is incredible! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is now available to anyone with an Internet connection! The fourth-century Codex Sinaiticus has been digitally photographed and is searchable like Bible Gateway. It contains the New Testament in Greek, and portions of the Old Testament (Septuagint). I’ve written about it in more detail at Blogging the Bible.
Have you seen the new Pixar movie Up? We love it; the story lines, characters, and–squirrel!–hilarious talking dog collars. I could really identify–point!–with the dogs and their “chasing shiny objects” mentality. Lately I feel very stream of consciousness, where I start on one thought and end up somewhere totally different before coming back to my [...]
OK, so Samantha and I are a little behind the times as far as the Christian world is concerned, but I imagine there are a ton of people out there (even some reading this blog) who have not yet watched Fireproof. Let me give you my thoughts on the movie. Two disclaimers–first, as a once [...]
Many of you have already seen this, but I realized I hadn’t posted it on the blog yet. About a month ago, the reporter at the Wichita Eagle who covers the aerospace industry in Wichita came out to our warehouse and did a nice little story for us. The story was on the front page [...]
I just wanted to share a story I read in The Old Farmer’s Almanac this morning (I get periodic e-mails from them with cool information that most urbanites have forgotten or never learned about how our planet works).You can subscribe to their e-mail newsletter by going to this sample page and clicking on “subscribe to [...]