One Pastor's Perspective

A man was stranded on the proverbial deserted Pacific island for years.

Finally one day a boat comes sailing into view, and the man frantically waves and draws the skipper’s attention. The boat comes near the island and the sailor gets out and greets the stranded man. After awhile the sailor asks, “What are those three huts you have here?”

“Well, that’s my house there.” “What’s that next hut?” asks the sailor.”I built that hut to be my church.””What about the other hut?”

“Oh, that’s where I used to go to church.”

(WOW . . . That guy is DEFINITELY a Baptist, and I think he used to go to Ebenezer. Probably left because of the PASTOR!!!!)

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Yep! We made the switch. In two weeks, we will once again be At&t (well, I guess we were Bellsouth back then, but you know what I mean).

Someone told me this is the problem with the way Time Warner has a monopoly on cable around here. That is true, and I guess a dish is the only answer to that monopoly. I am not as nervous about a dish: My parents have had a dish at their house since I was in eighth grade or so . . . In fact, I INSTALLED it (or, at least I wired it). Way back when they were so far out in the country that cable tv did not come that far, we had a big dish. It required a tuner AND a descrambler, and the first one had a numeric keypad on which I had to enter the subscription codes. It was quite a rack of equipment. Years later, they converted to a small dish.

Cable tv finally made it out to their place, and they went with it for a while. But they are back on a dish right now and loving it. So I guess we will give it a try. So long, TWC.

Okay, last week I blogged about a sudden jump in my Time Warner bill. For no apparent reason, it jumped $20.00 and when contacted, TWC responded with a “so!”

SO . . . We contacted AT&T and checked into their package bundles. The bottom line is that we can get the same thing through them, with a guarantee of no price change in two years, for $50.00 LESS a month. We have investigated, researched, talked to them until we are blue in the face about it . . . And it is legit. We called TWC back, told them what we found, and asked them if this was the best they could do. Their answer . . . YES.

So I guess we will initiate the switch today. My HOME email address will probably change. I will send something out to all who use it.

In all of this, TWC never even said that the price just went up . . . They just assured us we were getting all of our discounts for having cable, high speed internet, and phone service bundled.

If you haven’t yet seen this ESPN video, you need to watch it. It is the FULL story of what happened a couple of weeks ago in a college softball game in the northwest. You won’t regret it!

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?&brand=null&videoId=3380875&n8pe6c=2

I got an email today from a friend in the Upstate, expressing his concern about McDonald’s and their decision to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Below is a link if you are interested:

McDonald’s has become a “Corporate Partner” of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). Please join in asking McDonald’s to end its support of the NGLCC.

In that email, Tom Capps reminded me and others in his address book that the only thing required for evil to triumph is for good men to do NOTHING. This was not one of those infamous chain letters, but a bulletin from the Family Research Council.

Do we need to get involved?? I think so.

Walking out of Jack’s last night, we saw THE sign . . . Last night was Drew’s 13th birthday. That’s right, I no longer have ANY children. Both teens at this point in life.

As we walked out of the restaurant, Diana said, “Look, a double rainbow. That has to be significant.”

My response: “It is for Drew’s birthday. God is promising NEVER to destroy the earth this way again.” (That is NOT mean, just a allusion to the truth that Drew is a one-man wrecking crew in ways that most of you could never imagine)

I wanted to drive to the end and get the pot of gold, but we had stuff to do. Oh well!

YOUR CABLE BILL JUST JUMPED $20 FOR NO REASON!

I guess they will claim high gas prices on this one, huh?? We have EVERYTHING tied into our cable (phone, internet, ice cream, the tool of the month) so I guess I shouldn’t be suprised. But it makes me want to check into a dish . . . And dropping my house phone to go all cellular . . . And using mental telepathy to hit the web . . . And buying my own ice cream and tools.

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