Word Cloud


After seeing this on numerous sites, I decided to give my blog a test. A word cloud takes a look at your blog, and then lists the words it finds and sizes them according to how many times it shows up on your blog.
But from looking at mine, I don’t think it went very deep. I’m pretty sure it only grabbed the first page or so. Anyways, its a fun little tool. And if you like it, you get can a t-shirt printed with your personalized word cloud on it.

On prayer

I just noticed an ad for EveryStudent.com on my site. Thought I’d check it out.
The ad reads:

How should you pray? What prayers does God answer? What does it take to be heard?

With my recent post, I had to check it out.
I’m quite sure the site is hosted by Campus Crusade for Christ, but I could be wrong.
I began reading the site and had some concerns.
Such as:

So, Why Doesn’t God Answer Everyone’s Prayers?
It may be because they don’t have a relationship with God. They may know that God exists, and they might even worship God from time to time. But those who never seem to have their prayers answered probably don’t have a relationship with him. Further, they have never received from God complete forgiveness for their sin. What does that have to do with it you ask? Here is an explanation. “Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God. Your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.”

Does God really not answer everyone’s prayers?
Now granted, God may not answer everyone’s prayers the way we want Him to. But I believe God listens and answers everyone’s prayers.
If God only answers the prayers of the “saved” how in the world would anyone be saved? We don’t have a relationship with him until we accept Him as our Savior.
Am I missing something in my theology? Did all the people in the New Testament have a relationship with Christ before they asked Him to heal them or their child or family member?
Did the theif on the cross have a relationship with Christ before he asked to be let into the kingdom of heaven?
I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments on this. Let me know what I might be missing.

Indelible?

I was just looking over the March 2 issue of the Belton Journal, and realized somehow I was lumped together with Michael Robinson and Chris Allman. Not that I object to being lumped with either of those two great guys (they’re probably two of the greatest guys to be lumped with), but the term they used to describe us was “indelible.”

I have to admit, I had to look that word up. It was not an 8th grade word.

According to my thesaurus, it means, “impossible to remove” or “unforgettable.”

I’m not sure which meaning they were going with there and the editor was out when I called to question his wording.

Oh well.

Kinky says give it back

From KinkyFriedman.com

The recent discovery of an extra $4.3 billion in the state’s coffers has caused some controversy around Texas. Office holders are rushing to blame each other for counting errors, the legislature is complaining of not yet being “officially notified,” and the average Joe is scratching his head, wondering how on Earth you can just “find” $4.3 billion.
No one quite knows what to do with the overage, but if you ask Kinky, it’s simple: give it back to taxpayers. “$4.3 billion is about 15% of the state’s total property tax take,” the Kinkster says. “The answer to this whole thing is pretty simple–when the state collects more than it needs, more than it’s budgeted for, it ought to give the money back to the people who earned it.”
Kinky believes we should give every property owner in the state a one-time check equal to about 15% of their total property tax bill from 2004. For the average homeowner, this will be about $300.
What could you do with an extra $300?

Makes me really wonder if Perry, the Legislature or that tough grandma know how to balance a budget.

Sell your soul on eBay

CMS has an article about an athiest who sold his soul on eBay for a winning bid of $504.

Atheist Hemant Mehta sold his soul on eBay, offering to attend an hour of church for each $10 of the final bid. The auction ended on Feb. 3 after 41 bids. The winner? Former evangelical minister Jim Henderson, founder of Off the Map, with a $504 bid.
Rather than cashing in on 50 hours of Mehta’s church attendance, Henderson flew to Chicago to meet with Mehta in a bar and struck a deal: 10-15 hours of church services and writing about the experience.
“I’m not trying to convert you,” Henderson told Mehta. “You’re going there almost like a critic. If you happen to get converted, that’s off the clock.”

It will be interesting to see what happens in the end.