Ray's New Book

Hey, I'm cross posting a link to FishWithTrish's blog entry about Ray's new "atheist" book. Check it out!

Win a copy of Ray's New Book!

from Fish With Trish by email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish)

Ray Comfort's new book You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence but You Can't Make Him Think is written in a question and answer format and is filled with answers to questions from angry skeptics. One atheist said, "In reading your books...seeds of doubt about my atheism have been sown."

Look what Ken Ham, President of Answers in Genesis has to say, "I find it so encouraging that in these challenging times of 'culture wars.' Christian leaders like my friend Ray Comfort are passionately defending the authority of the Bible from its very first verse."

And if you don't win this copy, I encourage you to visit Amazon and pick it up for yourself...you wont' be disappointed.

***Here are the rules for this contest:

1) Comment here and some way for me to contact you if you win--email or blog link is fine (as long as there's an email address attached to the blog link).

2) Get an additional entry for blogging about this contest or putting it on facebook, twitter, your website, or any other networking site you have. Then tell me where you've posted it.

Note: You do not have to leave a comment to win. Winning isn't based on what you say. The winner will be drawn randomly...so, it's fine to simply leave your name and email.

* No duplicate comments.

* Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.

* You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

***If you aren't able to post a comment, please send your entry to email [at] fishwithtrish.com. Comments will be opened through Feb. 28th 2009 and I will announce the winner on the comment section of this blog on March 1st 2009. Open to U.S. residents only.

"I coulda been a contender"

I recently read an article in the New York Times about a behavior called "self-handicapping". My favorite quote from the article is this..."The burn of embarrassment is, in some sense, the pilot light of motivation." Interesting article--you should read it. You can find it here. Do you do this? I think a lot of us do without even realizing it. I think a lot of us do it to make the sting of failure that much more palatable. It's one thing to try very little and fail but when we try our best and fail, it really hurts.

Christmas is over...

Does the sight of Christmas decorations after Christmas is finally over sicken everyone else like it does me? Well, maybe it's the stomach virus talking.

Thank God, I'm just about over a bout with the stomach virus and am finally starting to be able to sit up without wanting to puke or fall over. I hope that everyone had a blessed and Merry Christmas and are looking forward to a joyous and Happy New Year!!

Merry Darmas?

This was just too funny (and depressingly true) to pass up cross-posting. Ray is one of the best guys at putting atheists in their place that I know of!

Merry Darmas! I suppose we know what the atheist Xmas gang is going to fill in their X with!

I just noticed what's on top of the tree! That's too funny!!

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Merry What-Mas?

Does it tick anybody else off as bad as it does me when people use Merry Xmas!?  I mean, how lazy, do you have to be to not type 5 more characters?  It's probably not even the laziness factor, it's the fact that our society is so anti-Christian and pro-anything but Christianity that they want to do away with every semblance of Christ! 

Sorry, I just needed to rant as I just received yet another blog post with Xmas.  I'm going to start shortening people's names with X and see how they like it.
Here's my new conversation with my friend Bob Smith who uses Xmas...

"Hey, XSmith!"

"Hey....Scott.  What's up with the X stuff?"

"Oh, I got your email the other day and you didn't bother referencing Christ in Christmas so I thought I'd see how you liked it.  You know, the whole refusing to mention your name thing."

"Really?  I don't particularly like that.  Can you please use my name when talking to me and referring to me to others?"

"Well, X (can I call you X for short?) it's my way of proving the signficance of leaving someone's name out of a relationship.  Now, I understand that "Christ" is Jesus' position and not his name, per se, but you get the point right?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

Needless to say, Bob did not like me NOT using his name when we were talking.  I can't imagine Jesus likes it when we leave him out of Christmas either!

Merry CHRISTmas and Happy Birthday JESUS!

Romans 1:16 - "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes..."

Homemade De-icer

Who knew? Well, I suppose plenty of you frugal'ers out there did. It was news to me.

This winter, try mixing water, alcohol, and dishwashing soap together for your own homemade de-icer. Fill a spray bottle with a 50-50 mix of water and alcohol with just a few drops of dishwashing soap. You can spray this on in climates where the temperature is just below freezing and it’ll work even better than the straight alcohol. Got this from The Simple Dollar blog.

Good blog. Lots of good ideas and principles for frugal living.

Back to the Future

Back to the Future
Originally uploaded by cookiecole

Here's a really interesting video on something Adobe is cooking up called Zoetrope. It lets you look at past versions of a website (or even portions of a website). Now, that may now sound very cool or useful but watch the video to see how you might use such technology. It's cool (at least to this nerd)!