Cable Community Church

I was reading a recent report on church growth. This particular report, by Scott Thumma of Hartford Institute for Religion Research and Warren Bird of Leadership Network, examines the previously understudied phenomenon called “Megachurches.” Their definition of megachurch is “a very large Protestant church of 2,000 or more weekly attenders.” I can [...]

 
I received a most excellent gift at Easter time, though I do not believe it was an Easter gift, per say.  It is a “ShamWow®.”  If you’ve never stayed up late watching television and have not seen “Vince” and his infamous infomercial about the “ShamWow®” then you should search it out on YouTube and take [...]

Lately I’ve been having something of an identity crisis.  I should probably explain, shouldn’t I?
 
In January I received the first after-Christmas credit card bill.  This year was to be different for us, as far as New Year’s credit card bills go, in that we had determined not to charge anything for Christmas.  Vi had even planned [...]

 
Believe it or not, there seems to be a holiday, newly formed, called UnValentine’s Day.  From all that I can surmise, it started as a joke.  My internet searching to find the root of this new “holiday” led me to one or two sites dripping with sarcasm.  That said, the idea of celebrating an “alternate” [...]

 
Perhaps you heard that the year 2008 went into “overtime?”  It’s true.  The authorities in charge of the “Atomic Clock” allowed one extra second to pass in 2008 before beginning the year 2009 in order to better match their clock with the speed and orbit of the earth.  You see the Earth, like most of [...]