Pastor’s Blog (Page 27)
What are we worth?
Dear Woodland Hills Family, What’re you worth? $42 if you voted. At the end of October, 1,015,615 television ads had been aired for the presidential general election — up 39.1% over 2008 and 41% over 2004. (No wonder we’re tired of election rhetoric!) The pricetag for all this? Over a billion dollars. And that breaks down to $42 for each voter.…
Check the Warning Light
That pesky Check Engine light has been on again in one of our vehicles. So I stopped by Autozone to have them run a diagnostic test and tell me why the light is on. Turns out the oxygen sensor is the culprit. The O2 sensor has a probe that extends into the exhaust pipe and “sniffs” the burned exhaust. It is designed to alert you if your engine is not tuned…
A Higher View
Have you heard of Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting skydive? This past Sunday he jumped from 128,100 feet above the earth (over 24 miles!) and parachuted safely back to earth. Jet planes don’t even fly that high — their record is a mere 123,523 feet! Baumgartner had to wear a pressurized suit to protect him from the cold (70 degrees below zero) and to…
Spritual Odors
Dear Woodland Hills Family, For the last couple of weeks Barb and I have been picking up on some really offensive odors in our home. We’ve been regularly checking our shoes and sniffing our shirts… but still haven’t been able to pinpoint the source. At times it has smelled like we live downwind from a waste-water treatment plant. The other day we finally…
Will the levees hold?
Dear Woodland Hills Family, As Hurricane Isaac pounds the Gulf Coast (7 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina), we’re holding our collective breath and wondering aloud, Will the levees hold? Isaac’s winds weren’t as disastrous as Katrina’s, but Isaac just slowed to a crawl and dumped enormous amounts of rain. The storm surge plus…
How do you receive instruction?
Take hold of instruction; do not let go. * Heed instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. + In preparation for our son’s wedding, Barb and I went online and ordered a tent canopy for the rehearsal dinner. It arrived in several boxes. The instructions indicated we’d need about 6 people to set it up. On the setup day I didn’t have 6 people. Only 3.…