After much planning and effort, the new blog for Christians and personal finance is set to launch tomorrow. James Dalton, Joey Sparks, Wes Hazel and I are all looking forward to this day. We have spent many hours preparing through study, email and phone. As we have done with this site now, there is a button in the upper-right hand corner of the new blog for you to use if you’d like an RSS feed. There are also buttons for[...]
Two new things for you to make use of on our blog: 1. First, we have added an RSS feeder to the upper right-hand corner. Many are now using these to know when content is added to their favorite blogs, so we thought it would be helpful for you. If you another reader (Yahoo, Google, AOL, etc.), please let us know. We have the capability of adding just about any reader that is out there. Just send us an email[...]
Each summer many young people from 9th Avenue decide to attend Maywood Christian Camp. We “push” this event through this newsletter, announcements and short statements in Bible classes and at devotionals. But why? Why is it such a good thing for our young people to attend a Christian camp? First, because the emphasis is on “Christian” and not “camp.” While we enjoy the outdoors and the cabins, they are not the focus. Christ is the focus of our week. Each[...]
I submitted my recent Memorial Day article to a blog “carnival” (basically a large collection of articles on a similar subject). I’m proud to say that it was accepted and listed with the links. To see all the links (mine is about 2/3 of the way down), click on this post from ParableMan. We hope to submit more articles to this carnival, which you may learn more about by clicking here.
In case you missed it, a young man in Arkansas killed what is believed to be the largest hog ever hunted down and killed in America. The wild hog was about 10 feet in length and weighed in at an astounding 1051 pounds! (See picture here) Figures, though: the young man has been receiving hate mail and email since. Here’s one example from his website (where, to his credit, he publishes both positive and negative responses): Just a quick question,[...]
