Carry-in or Fellowship Meals.

An interesting discussion developed after church last Sunday morning among a few folks. It was regarding the benefit vs. hassle of having carry-in meals. I was heartbroken just as much as Marty and Kenny that it got canceled for this Sunday! Lets look and the pro's and con's of this subject.
Some of the argument in favor of the carry-ins seems to be along this line:

1. Lunch is often prepared before leaving for church on Sunday mornings so why not just bring it along to church.
2. In most cases, you will find that you actually eat sooner on Sunday afternoon at a carry-in than you do if you go home to eat.

Arguments against:

1. It might be more difficult for those who live a distance from church.
2. It creates too much work for the hospitality committee.

I invite any of you to contribute more arguments in favor of or against carry-in meals on Sunday.

An Interesting Phone Call.

I wonder how many of you heard the young high school guy that called into Rush Limbaugh's show today? He was trying to get advice from Rush on how to respond to his liberal democrat father. Click here > RIGHTONTHERIGHT to find out how to replay the phone call. I actually got to talk to Justin online through Instant Messenger. Here is how the conversation went....

Rm6565: Hey man. Great call on Rush's show today. I bet you can't keep up with all the IM's coming to you!
RightOnTheRight: Hehe, couldn't be more right
RightOnTheRight: And emails
Rm6565: You are suddenly famous! :-)
RightOnTheRight: Ya
RightOnTheRight: Went from 120 hits on my site a day to a couple hundred per hour
Rm6565: Who is hosting your website? Did you have to upgrade or switch hosts?
RightOnTheRight: Hehe, my admin hosts a forum online
RightOnTheRight: He said his server crashed within seconds of my plug
RightOnTheRight: So he called his host company up and got it fixed
Rm6565: After you gave out your web address on Rush's show I figured it would crash! Anyway, I know you are a busy guy. Good chatting with you, keep on doing what you are doing. We need more young skulls full of the RIGHT mush! Merry CHRISTmas!
RightOnTheRight: Merry Christmas, and keep in touch
Rm6565: Sure thing.

Caroling At The Mall.

Our Church was at the mall last night caroling. My father-in-law wrote an email regarding this effort. I thought it was well said and I have pasted it below the picture.

"We ARE the reason for the season!" That is what the preacher said. I heard him say that yesterday. He was not being smart--his point was:

"If it had not been for humanity (you and me) there would not have been Christmas". I have a Christmas cup that says: "Jesus is the reason for the season" I don't think I will be able to look at that statement again in the same way.

Last night, close to 100 Central people stood in the center of Dover Mall and sang our hearts out for nearly and hour!! Usually, we end with: "We wish you a Merry Christmas!!" and when we were finished, someone in the picture taking booth with Santa in it said: Happy Hanukah!" Perhaps he was attempting to be "politically correct"or he may have heard too much about Jesus!! We have been doing this sort of ministry for close to 40 years and as we were singing, I thought: "how special it is to be able to do this!!" My next thought was: "How long will it be 'til we are told--

"sorry--we can't let you do it no more!!" I'm sure you heard where parents were upset, because the teacher told her students: "there is no Santa Claus!" She needed to go back and tell a lie in order to take care of telling the truth!!!

As I watched the 'stream' of humanity moving back and forth while we sang, one could see the 'emptiness' of hearts without the Saviour of the world. no wonder I find myself often sad---

Our Beloved Mnissle

Anybody recognize this fella? He is sure in his element wouldn't you agree?!

Sleeping Late.

This entry will be in the form of a poll. Its 10:15 Saturday morning here and my dear wife is making the typical breakfast/brunch for this day of the week. Pancakes and eggs! During this process, she asked the following question: "I wonder if I'm the only woman who stays in bed until 9:00am on a Saturday morning?" She asked this question with a bit of remorse. I tried to reassure her that there are probably a lot of women who sleep that late or even later! I have to admit that we are not a morning family. We all tend to be night owls around here, including me. So the poll question will be in two parts:
1. Do you often sleep until 9:00 or later on a Saturday morning?
2. What tends to be your typical breakfast/brunch on this morning?

By the way, I also stayed in bed until 9:00 this morning! I had a good excuse though, I have a pretty bad cold right now. Don't ask me what my excuse is on other Saturday mornins! LOL

Firewood.

Today was firewood accumulation day. Many thanks to Kent for providing a nice oak to cut up and split. He even helped out with cutting it up. The fairly large tree was damaged during a storm and was threatening to come down on the road and power lines. A local tree removal service felled it under contract with the power company. That left a nice log for us to go to work on. I recently picked up a "like new" Husqvarna from Lowes that was marked down to almost 1/2 new price. It was sitting outside along with some other returned power equipment. It was returned for some sort of repair etc but still had 1 year factory warranty on it. Today offered a great opporunity to put it to a good test. It performed flawlessly! Below you will see the saw etc....


The Husky Model 359 with 20" bar.
Original new price at Lowes was around 490.00
I picked it up at the reduced price of 250.00!



A gas wood-splitter would have been nice...


Go Kent!


It was a rather chilly day so I, of course, consumed large amounts of coffee!