Author: Jonathan Blundell

I'm a husband, father of three, blogger, podcaster, author and media geek who is hoping to live a simple life and follow The Way.

Prayer for Erin

From e-mail:

Dear Friends,

Last Tuesday evening, there was an armed robbery on the compound across the street from where I live. Three single women missionaries were in the apartment and one of them was injured. I have been attending to her, medically, and as her friend.
This has been a traumatic event and we need your prayers.
For me, please pray
– that I will take all thoughts captive – holding only onto Truth
– that I will not be fearful of Nigerians
– that my parents will trust God to protect me
– to be able to fall asleep at night
– my lung is hurting again and my cough has returned – this was to be expected, as my disease will flare up when my immune system weakens (due to stress, this time).
Seven of our boys have been sick this week and it has been a blessing to focus on loving and caring for them. These children are why God brought me here and they are why I will stay.
As I flipped open the Bible a couple nights ago – God opened the pages to this familiar and comforting verse:
‘ For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,’ declares the LORD. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.’ Isaiah 55:8 & 9

Holding onto Him,
Erin Rigsby
www.webmissions.net/erinrigsby
www.erinrigsby.blogspot.com

There’s just something about His name

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
There’s just something about that name
Master, Savior, Jesus
Like the fragrance after the rain
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Let all heaven and earth proclaim
Kings and kingdoms shall all pass away
But there’s something about that name.

Words by Bill Gaither

What’s so (bleeping) funny?

All Things Considered had a great story yesterday on the (bleeping) television industry.
Quite funny.

From NPR:

TV shows have been bleeping profanity for years when people speak extemporaneously. In recent years, however, scripted shows have been writing profanity in. The actors say the forbidden words and then the words are bleeped out for comedic effect.

Listen online

From Mike Huckabee

Via e-mail:

With your efforts, we have raised a total of $703,879 online during the month of October, including $331,420 over the last five days.

Each member of my campaign team and I have watched the money tracker on the front page of our website with a mix of awe and humility.

Clearly something is happening.

Yet, after what neutral observers called a strong performance at the last presidential debate and following a win among attendees at the Family Research Council’s Washington Briefing, many in the Washington press corps and on rival presidential campaigns want you to believe that money problems will prevent us from capitalizing on our momentum.

Do you agree? I certainly don’t. As you personally invest in this campaign, please know that each of us is redoubling our efforts. We aren’t listening to the pundits we are listening to you.

This is our moment! Let’s throttle up and end the “Mike would be competitive if he just had more money.” Here’s how we end that right now.

Today, I am asking you to help me send a clear message to the press, our rivals and voters everywhere that feel disenfranchised by the gamesmanship and bitter gotcha politics of Washington. This campaign is not bouncing we are rising steadily towards victory. We are solutions based and people powered.

We have set a new goal of $1,034,487 by October 31st at midnight which is $1 more than our total efforts last fundraising quarter. I urge you to make an immediate “Million for Mike” contribution of $1 (A Buck for Huck!), $5, $10, $25, $50, $75, $100, $500 or even $1,000.

Let us match and exceed last quarter’ s fundraising performace! Reaching this online goal will leave our campaign with $1.7 million in the bank. A good start for the road to the White House!

And while I’m asking you to make a “Million for Mike” contribution personally of any amount that you can before October 31 at midnight, I’d also ask you to go the extra mile and send an email to at least 5 of your friends, family members, neighbors, or co-workers and ask them to match your contribution.

Of course, it would be even better if you could send this email to more than 5 people, but please don’t send it to less than that. While most of the other campaigns are relying on a few well known political fundraisers, I’m going to put my trust in YOU. We will make history and take the elections out of the hands of a few and put it in the hands of many. This is a big step of faith, but I believe we have a great opportunity to show that this campaign is unlike any other because we are supported by ordinary people who are going to make extraordinary things happen.

Thanks a Million!

With deep gratitude,
Mike Huckabee

D Magazine has fun with iPhone commercial

From Frontburner (the D Magazine blog):

A neighbor friend of mine was approached yesterday at lunch by woman named Lexi who identified herself as a casting agent. She asked if my neighbor wanted to star in an iPhone commercial. It was an odd question, because my neighbor doesn’t own an iPhone. Lexi said she was staying at the Palomar for a few days as she hunted for iPhone users who had a story to tell about their favorite telephonic gadget.
When I told Eric this story, it got us thinking. Next thing you know, eight D employees were deep into a project yesterday that isn’t exactly going to knock our CFO over with its projected ROI, if you know what I mean. Special thanks to web producer Kyle Kearbey, who edited and scored the video.