Digging into the Vault: Please Beat Florida…PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not that I actually expect this to happen.  I am a realist, you know.  But just on the off chance… Here is a nifty little rant that I put up the morning of Florida-Georgia 2007.  I think it might have worked–Georgia actually did beat Florida that year.  Take a gander, people. Who knows?  A Georgia [...]

Digging Into the Vault: Joe’s Deep Dark Secret

I joined Facebook a couple of months back.  Since then I have been amazed at how I have had the opportunity to reconnect with people from college, high school, and even elementary school whom I have not seen or heard from in ages. I have also been amazed at the amount of change that has [...]

Digging Into the Vault: Jono’s Ski School

I would guess that many of you have already been skiing sometime the last two months, or plan to go sometime during this the last month of real skiing weather.  In light of this, I figured it would be an appropriate time to resurrect a post that I wrote after going skiing myself a few [...]

Digging into the Vault: Happy “Fall Family Festival”?

Today is Halloween, and so I thought it would be appropriate to take a trip into the vault and review a Halloween rant that I wrote a couple of years back. Believe it or not, there once was a time when Halloween was widely celebrated among evangelicals.  And then, sometime around the late 80s / [...]

Digging DEEP Into the Vault: Christians Shouldn’t Judge Gays

Today we are going to dig deep into the vault and reach WAAAAAAAY back to a piece that I wrote for the school paper when I was in college (the first time around).  Just to give you an idea how far back in time we are going–Ray Goof was still the head football coach at [...]

If College Football Were Like Contract Bridge

(originally written in January 2003) College football season is just right around the corner. Well, not exactly. The start of the season is still a couple of months away. But that isn’t stopping the sportswriters, pollsters, pundits, and others who make their living by observing the college football scene from cranking into high gear with [...]

The Bulldog Tooth

(originally written in August 2004) James Ryle is the pastor of a large charismatic church in Colorado. He became very influential in charismatic circles during the 1990s when he gave several well-known prophecies (well-known in charismatic circles, that is), the most famous of which is the “Beatles Anointing Prophecy.” In this prophecy he claimed that [...]

Compassion vs Admiration

(originally written in February 2003) While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. [...]

Differences Between Men and Women

(originally written in May 2004) Forget “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus”! Who needs John Gray? Here at last is a comprehensive, reliable guide to the differences between men and women. DESSERTS: A woman will admire an ornate dessert for the exquisite work of art that it is, praising its creator profusely and [...]

Top 10 Differences Between Louisiana and Russia

(originally written in March 2003) 10. In Louisiana, drinking is strictly a social activity. In Russia, drinking is necessary to keep warm during the winter months. 9. In Louisiana, a snowball is a white fluffy object served as a tasty summer treat for six months out of the year. In Russia, a snowball is a [...]