Thanks to my friend Joffre for posting this article. Here is an excerpt: “Unfortunately, American evangelicals have another demographic concern: The ratio of devoutly Christian young women to men is far from even. Among evangelical churchgoers, there are about three single women for every two single men. This is the elephant in the corner of almost every congregation—a shortage of young Christian men. Try counting singles in your congregation next Sunday. Evangelicals make much of avoiding being unequally yoked, but the fact that there are far more spiritually mature young women out there than men makes this bit of advice…

Posted a few more audio tracks to my music player today. Enjoy!

“Wings as Eagles” by Ron Hamilton.
Leaning on this promise today:
Isaiah 40:
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that [...]

Did you know that this year is the 100th anniversary of the invention of the first commercially-successful electric toaster? (You just never know what you’re going to find on my blog, do you?!) A man named Frank Shailor developed his electric toaster, the “D-12,” at General Electric. On the right is a picture [...]

On Facebook I discovered the Yearbook Yourself site where you can upload a picture and try out different simulated yearbook photos from 1950s styles through 2000.  What a blast! I can’t put them all up, but here are a few, all made with the same photo in my sidebar.

1952

1962

1964

1978
I love this one. Looks like an [...]

The company Apple, lauded and applauded for it’s innovative devices and software has hit some bumps in the road as of late. Continued controversy surrounding it’s methods for approving and (seemingly more often than not) denying apps from showing up in its iTunes Store has brought new decisions to light over the past several weeks. [...]

Well…we’re now the proud parents of three kids- Jenna Grace was born this past week, as you may have seen in my Twitter feed. She’s doing great, and we’re not too sleep-deprived.
I’ve finally got an audio player up on my site here (in case you didn’t notice it hanging off the right side of your [...]

 
Rachel Grace Smith Matzko, 65, of 17 Professors Place, Greenville, died July 28, 2009 of cancer initially diagnosed in 2002. 

 
Born on October 21, 1943 in Rockford, Illinois, she was the daughter of the late Robert Harrison and Esther Robinson Smith. 
She was a graduate of Bob Jones University (B.A., 1968, B.S., 1970) and earned an [...]

Jientje at Heaven Is In Belgium hosts A  Thousand Words In Idioms wherein she asks participants to illustrate an idiom with a photo, going through the alphabet two at a time. Today we looking for idioms beginning with W and X.
Warm Fuzzies

“Warm fuzzies” (or, alternately, “warm and fuzzy” or “warm and fuzzy feelings”) are the [...]