Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

I have to be the klutziest person in the world.  I've broken so many bones and I'm constantly tripping and falling down.  Saturday I slipped and fell down the stairs and broke my toe so badly they are sending me to an orthopedic.   When it rains it pours.  I had the the privilege of teaching at church today. We are doing a series called "Going to the Beach."  Every messages is from a passage near water.  Today I spoke on "Simple Faith"--it was ... Read More

[Tennessean]   A sawed-off tree limb at a Maryville cemetery turned out to have a mysterious image. The short log has a cut end bearing an uncanny resemblance to a human face. He said a former worker at the cemetery believes the face is a spirit. Read more here. [From me] Since they didn't say who it was --why don't we figure out who the person is on the log?  Who do you think it is? [HT] Steve Thompson   Read More

[Yahoo] When Sen. John McCain was forced to distance himself from Pastor John Hagee earlier this year, he denounced the pastor's attacks on Catholicism. But asked why he wouldn't "repudiate" Hagee's endorsement of him, McCain found something to praise.   I'm grateful for his commitment to the support of the state of Israel, and I'm very grateful for many of his commitments around the world, including to the independence and freedom of the state of Israel," he told CNN's Campbell Brown on April 29. Hagee's commitment to Israel, however, is itself controversial: It's ... Read More