Snakes!!!

In my mind this is one of Purgatorio's best posts. Although it is NOT funny as so many of his are, it is very good at pointing out a problem.--Dirk

Crazy Roman Catholics

This article confirms to me that Roman Catholics are mislead on some (or most....maybe all) things. Why would you ever pray to Mary to begin with, and why would you ever pray to a chocolate Mary??? I think Isaiah 44 pretty much covers this chocolate prayer thing. Reading the story reminded me of the Jesus that showed up on a polaroid in my home town one year. I saw the picture and it was pretty freaky, but that is for another day.--Dirk

Update: I somehow linked the wrong story. It should be fixed now.

New Blog

Just to prove that I really am not trying to play favorites with people's blogs and place them in a top to bottom favorite order(I keep making this point, but no one has accused me of it....oh well), I have added a new blog to the "blogs of people we know" roll. Ok, that isn't all true. What really happened is that Mike Thompson started a blog and the "T" in Thompson happens to be after the "S" in Stephenson when I put them in alphabetical order. No matter the reason, there is a new blog on the roll, check it out.--Dirk

Reorganization...ok just Organization

My wonderful wife suggested that we change the "blog roll" links on the side bar. I too thought it was a good idea to do so now that I am somewhat familiar with changing the blog template. For a long time I was just happy to have those links on the side bar, it took forever to figure that out. So let me explain the method to the madness so that hopefully no one will get their feeling hurt.

At the top you should see "blogs of people we know." I would have said friends, but Kathy doesn't know all of those people. This section is listed top to bottom in alphabetical order. I was NOT trying to just find a way to put Robin at the bottom. It has nothing to do with them leaving us for Virginia.....really it doesn't.

Next you should see "other blogs we read." This section too is posted in alphabetic order (sorta). I did the best I could without listing out everyone who posts on the group blogs. This section was originally titled "blogs we read," but I thought it would imply that we don't read our friends blogs....I mean the blogs of people that we know. We do read those.

Continuing down the list the "ministry links" were only put in alphabetical order (big surprise). I have some ministries to add, but I need to track down web addresses.

Finally you have "the church we attend." It too went through naming revisions tonight because I thought "our church" indicated ownership. It isn't Lakewood and therefore isn't owned by anyone person. Yeah you heard me Lakewood is owned by good 'ole Joel....that's for another blog.

I hope that you find the renovations pleasing. If you don't well I really don't care...just kidding. Send any suggestions my way--Dirk