Review: Breaking the Missional Code

Breaking the Missional Code: Your Church Can Become a Missionary in Your Community by Ed Stetzer I read Stetzer’s Planting Missional Churches while I was at Glorieta this summer — mainly because I had borrowed it from Jackie Flake last…

Bailout passes

Update (4:52p): I like what Dean said in response to today’s vote: Look for this to be just the beginning of a long line of requests/demands for not only corporate handouts/bailouts, but the governmental variety as well (California started screaming…

Integrity matters

If you haven’t called your legislators yet to voice opposition to the bailout, do it NOW! Don’t give up just because you’re tired and think they won’t listen. … The Baseball Crank began a 3-part series yesterday called “The Integrity…

SEC adopts (partially) mark-to-market fix

The SEC stepped in today and eased or clarified the mark-to-market lending rules. This has the immediate effect of freeing up credit for businesses and individuals. Doing so cost the taxpayers nothing. While they didn’t suspend it entirely, they have,…

Senate schedules a vote on bailout

In what appears to be a never-ending cycle of determined effort to ignore the wishes of the American citizenry, who have voiced almost 1000 to 1 that we are NOT in favor of a bailout of irresponsible business dealings, the…

Fired up

The bailout vote was defeated today in Congress, and it got me fired up. My call mattered! (Well, when added to thousands of others…) Turns out that the calls made to Congress today were 9 to 1 AGAINST the bailout.…

Bailout bondage

Update (4:29 pm): The bailout was defeated today in the House,228 to 205.You can read more about Paul’s interview with Beck here, and here is a link to the interview audio itself. Call your Congressman’s office asap and urge/warn them…

Free from absorption

“The time that remains is very short. So from now on, those with wives should not focus only on their marriage. Those who weep or who rejoice or who buy things should not be absorbed by their weeping or their…

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