Mark’s Blog

[This story was published this week in BrotherhoodNews.com - a site I check regularly and would encourage you to do the same. - MEM]
 
 
Nation’s longest iron lung patient dies
 
May 28, 2008
 
By Associate Editor Joe May
 
A routine power outage in Jackson, TN claimed the life of Diane Odell, at around 3:00 a.m. Wednesday morning.
 
A member of [...]

The Last Doughboy
 
By George F. Will
Sunday, May 25, 2008; B07
 
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during America’s involvement in the First World War and that 4,734,990 are gone. He is feeling fine, [...]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126242
 
Check out the link to an article above about how tourism to Israel is back to pre-9-11 levels.  It has only taken 7 years!
I am ready to go back – how about you?

15 Exercises We Can Live Without
 
- Jumping on the bandwagon
 
- Wading through paperwork
 
- Running around in circles
 
- Pushing your luck
 
- Spinning your wheels
 
- Adding fuel to the fire
 
- Beating your head against the wall
 
- Climbing the walls
 
- Beating your own drum
 
- Dragging your heals
 
- Jumping to conclusions
 
- Grasping at straws
 
- Fishing for compliments
 
- Throwing your [...]

          It is interesting to me that the further back you go in church history, the stronger the views of Christians on the power and purpose of baptism in God’s plan.  Conversely, as time goes on, even in the church of our Lord, more and more question the New Testament emphasis on the centrality of [...]

         I get an e-newsletter from time to time entitled “Preaching” that I often cull good illustrations from, as well as some helpful instruction on preaching.  The editor is a fellow named Michael Duduit – an engaging guy with a good sense of humor.  He always has a brief editorial to begin each issue, and [...]