Topic: god

Robin Williams "Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.

I was about to put up a throwaway post (gotta goose the traffic!) with that famous quote from Ben Franklin: "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." This quote is well-known to beery types, and can be seen on about 10% of the t-shirts at beer festivals in July. It seems to verify satisfyingly the things we know about Franklin and beer: Ben was a bit of a libertine, clearly...

We saw the touring version of the Tony winning "Avenue Q" in Portland Saturday. Oh. My. God. Best Broadway show I've ever seen. Here's a sample (poor video quality, but you get the idea). Copyright © 2008 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.Share This...

Attention, Portland motorists: When you approach an unsignalized intersection and the cross-traffic is stopping for a stop sign, if you don't have a stop sign yourself, for the love of God do us all a favor and drive through the darn intersection. When you stop needlessly and start waving the other person through their stop sign, you are creating confusion and danger when there doesn't need to be...

Bob Hyatt adds this definition of missional to the mix. Missional is... planting church communities that live out the Gospel in and for the cities and communities in which God has placed them. You can read Bob's complete comments on missional here....

and Joe Horn is not my neighbor. Shooting someone in the back is hunting. All over a couple of thousand dollars of stolen property. Had the old codger waited 30 seconds longer and the burglars were apprehended by the authorities would they be executed for STEALING PROPERTY? Now I realize that this is not a "local" story. However it is relevant in that we all have neighbors and I would...

God I love July in Portland. It's craft beer month. Officially. Does your state even recognize.

I am impatient. I see a problem and I feel compelled to do something. I like change. I get restless and want to move in a new direction. My bias is toward action. Sometimes that's wise. Sometimes it is foolish. In 1 Samuel 13 King Saul was in a difficult situation as a leader. He was out manned. The Philistines had a lot more soldiers and more advanced weapons. His army hid...

Touchy, touchy some people are, especially zealots on the way-out-there religious right. The American Family Association's news web site has a filter that automatically changes words it doesn't like. So an Associated Press story from Eugene, Oregon, about track star Tyson Gay was "corrected." The headline: "Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials." The...

Generally speaking humankind seems to have a desire to have a Supreme Being, a Creator of the Universe. This would seem to bear some implications for His attributes, the size and scope of the creation. All the stars we can and cannot see down to the subatomic particles making up all of that creation infer a huge act of creation, something well beyond the scope of human concrete conception. We can...