Go Big or Go Home

Our second Wednesday of each month is focused prayer. Our number one request for the rest of the year is ten new souls baptized in Jesus name and filled with the Holy Ghost evidenced by speaking in other tongues. For a humble congregation like ours, ten shiny new saints would be an awesome boost. I had originally suggested ten baptisms, but Bro. B, who leads up the focused prayer felt led of the Lord to upgrade the request. Go big or go home!

Scala

Went to my local Java User Group this evening and listened to a presentation about the Scala programming language. I had tinkered with this a year (or was it two?) ago and had thought that it was interesting. For some reason I can't remember, I got distracted away from it. Hmmm, perhaps it's time to dig back in and see what I can do with it.

Not Nimrod ... Not a Mighty Hunter

The things we do at the request of our children. We have an escaped pet rabbit in the neighborhood, white with red eyes. It has been around for over a month now and all the neighbors have seen it, but I think that I'm the only one crazy enough to try to catch it, after the geeklets informed me that they would just looooove to have a pet bunny. The critter is sneaky and has led me on several chases around the interior of our block, while various onlookers laugh and cheer me (hopefully they're cheering for me!) on in my futile endeavors. I even borrowed a fishing net, but I couldn't get close enough to use it. If the geeklets didn't want it as a pet, I'd have grabbed the .22 and made sure it would never escape me again!

Pastoral Appreciation

At church today we had a pastoral appreciation lunch. Wow! I feel very appreciated today. I also feel stuffed. There's nothing like a church potluck and the Pentecostals have taken it to an art form! All the food was southern-themed today. Partly, I suspect, because one of the ladies organizing it is from Texas and partly because I like to say "y'all" and claim that because I'm from southern England, I'm allowed to do so.

Goodness

Goodness, I see that it's been a while since I posted. Thankfully I don't have much of a following and am on only one blog roll that I know of, so I think that the Internet will survive. Still, I think that this would be a good outlet for me, if I can just make myself be more diligent with it.

The problem has not been a lack of things to say or interesting occurrences to report on. Those have been many and varied. Rather, the silence here has been because of a lack of consistent direction in how I want to take this blog. Initially, I thought that a mostly anonymous blog (how many ex-athiest, formerly British, apostolic pastors can there be in the mid-west?) would allow me to capture some of my adventures. Then I started thinking about blogging under my name, but then I got to thinking that would reduce what I felt comfortable writing about. So, I think it's safe to say that I have come full circle and will just stick with being (mostly) anonymous.

Business Is Booming

According to Ken Rockwell: business is booming.

A civil rights victory

Saw this on The Volokh Conspiracy via Instapundit: "Iowa Federal Court Finds Sheriff Denied Concealed Carry Because of Applicant’s Political Activity, Orders Sheriff to Take a First Amendment Class"

This is awesome on many levels. Yay, Iowa!