It Takes 100 Christians...

It takes 100 members of a congregation to win 1.67 people to Christ in a given year.

Greg Ogden (Transforming Discipleship, Location 325)

The iToy Just Got Eaten for Lunch

Source: Motion Computing

Everybody else can go home. Motion Computing just released the CL900. The rest will be history. For everyone else (Apple included), it'll be hysteria. Life is good.

Motivation and Ability

If you try to motivate someone who is unable, the result is not change but depression.

Joseph Grenny

And Save Us From Winter Weather

Under normal circumstances, the city has a fleet of about 30 to 35 dump trucks, which can be fitted with plows or used to spread salt on roads. During the worst of last winter's storms, the city was down to about 20 trucks as the fleet began to break down under heavy use.

“We've got 25 trucks up and running for this year's snow and ice program,” DeGiacomo said. “We've purchased 14 new trucks, but we don't anticipate getting a lot of those into the fleet before the winter.”

Source: The Daily Disappointment

Let's hope for not too much snow...

Bad Days

Get clear with yourself: If you are "on a mission," there will be bad days.

Tom Peters

Outlet Mall Groundbreaking

It's actually happened. Oklahoma City is one of two new outlet mall constructions in the country.

WebHost4Life

1. Web hosting companies can and will be sold, which may completely alter your service level. Try to set an alert on a search engine that will tell you when there are suspicious levels of write-ups about a web hosting provider. You can never be complacent, because good providers can go bad anytime.
2. Your web registrar has power over your domain name. It may take control of the domain name against your will at its pleasure (such as, when you sever your relationship with its hosting service). Transferring your domain name elsewhere may take 7-10 days. However, if your domain name is with a different company, you can try to update the name servers only, which should go through within about a day.
3. You can’t expect too much for a low monthly hosting fee.
4. Always keep backups of your online content, if you need it to remain available. Keep it in a format that can be altered but is also easily transferred to a new web page.

Ouch

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV

Re-Establishment of Relationship

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:17-19

The goal of the gospel is the re-establishment of relationship. Forgiveness from sin is the path to the goal.

The Dog's Got a Home

Many hours later...

Allie's new home (which she doesn't appreciate)

This is a single bush!


Still some weeding and growing left to do

My strawberries

2 blackberry, 2 raspberry bushes

Whole Foods Market Ante Portas

Oklahoma City will finally get a Whole Foods Market, as announced via Twitter today in response to a request by the Oklahoman.

Shorter Lines in the Emergency Rooms

"Illegal is illegal," said Pearce, a driving force on the issue in Arizona. "We'll have less crime. We'll have lower taxes. We'll have safer neighborhoods. We'll have shorter lines in the emergency rooms. We'll have smaller classrooms."
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36735281/ns/politics/

I suppose when Rep. Pearce comes across the man left "half dead by the side of the road" (Luke 10:30-37), he's planning to check whether he's an illegal immigrant ("require anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant to produce identification"), and call the cops instead of get him help. Regardless of where you stand on the immigration issue, don't call yourself a Christian and refuse emergency medical treatment over immigration matters.