FUNNY ANAGRAMS

Try and fill in the blanks to make a funny anagram phrase. I will post the answers at a later date.


GEORGE BUSH: H _ B _ _ _ G _ _ _

DORMITORY: D _ _ _ _ R _ _ _


PRESBYTERIAN: B _ _ _ I _ P _ _ _ _ _


THE MORSE CODE: H _ _ _ C _ _ _ D _ _ _


SLOT MACHINES: C _ _ _ L _ _ _ I _ M _


MOTHER-IN-LAW: W _ _ _ _ H _ _ _ _ _


SNOOZE ALARMS: A _ _ _! N _ M _ _ _ Z’ S


A DECIMAL POINT: I’M A D _ _ I _ P _ _ _ _


ELEVEN PLUS TWO: _ _ _ _ _ _ PLUS _ _ _

You Are My Hiding Place

IC vs. BP

Stopped by for the 2nd half of the Inter-City - Baptist Park District Basketball game after church tonight. This rivaly goes way back to the mid - seventies and I have been on both sides of it. When I got there tonight BP was up by one. A very close game ended with IC pulling out the win. It was good to see so many familiar faces from both sides. Guess I will go back for the District final on Friday.

High School Basketball Tournament Time

Last week the girls started off the High School Basketball Tournament season. The boys start their's this week. This is the first year the boys and the girls have played during the same period of time. I am sure it kept the athletic directors at each High School up late at night trying to schedule all the practices and games.
The Inter-City girls team won their first district in five years. They play a very good team tonight in Warren, so it looks like their season could end tonight. The boys drew a bye so they do not play until Wed. night. They are the favorites in their district but anything can happen.
This time of the year brings back fond memories of when our son played at IC. They won a district his senior year and won one regional game before losing to Detroit City in the regional final. I may have to bring out and old tape of one of those games and watch it this week. I will also try and get out and see one of the games and support our son's old school.

Anagrams with my Own Definitions - Final

SLEAZO AZOLES (shoddy chemical compounds)

DREADING READDEING (you won the scrabble game by one, and now a recount)

ENDEARED DEADENER (I love but I do not feel)

ADHERED REHEARD (sticky echos)

MADDENS DEMANDS (John Madden’s contract stipulations)

DOWNLOADS WOODLANDS (likes to save computer pictures of forests)

DEPARTEES DESPARATE (headline about the New Orleans evacuation)

DEPARTEE REPEATED (I am leaving one more time)

ENFRAMED FREEDMAN (innocent man found guilty)

Watching "Lost" on a Computer

Some 25 years ago, when Benita and I were first married, we got hooked watching the TV series "Hill Street Blues". It was a continuing story that left you hanging each week. After that we tried to stay away from those type of programs because they took up to much of our time. That was until our son had us start watching the first season of "24" two years ago while we were down visiting him. Benita has now watched seasons one, two, three, four, and five so far. I have watched some of them but not all of them. She bought season six on DVD but has not started watching it yet. The reason being when our son came home a while back he brought his DVD's of the first season of "Lost". Low and below Benita started watching all the reruns of those on DVD. She has now caught up and has starting watching the show each Thursday night. The only problem is Thursday nights are a busy night for church ministries. So I discovered we can watch the show the next day on our lap top computer. Hopefully our son will not get us watching his latest favorite continuing show, "Prison Break". Or at least not until these other shows go off the air!

Hill Street Blues

Two Saturdays - Two Weddings

We went to our second wedding in two weeks today. As I have said before, weddings are not one of my favorite thing to do. Last year I only went to one wedding, and it was my son's. I just could not get out of going to that one!ha
So let's see if I have to attend any more this year or if this will be it.
I have included a picture of B and me from tonight.

Scrabble Friday

Daniel Stock is a scrabble player from Ohio. He is known as Stocky and likes anything purple. He also is know for making up sayings using all 100 tiles of a scrabble game. The picture I have posted was taken by me at the beginning of a tournament we both played in. He used all 100 tiles and made eight seven letter words and four 15 letter words. The playing board will not allow a player to make a longer word than 15 letters. I have posted a larger picture at the bottom of the page.

Songs from the Past

I found this video tonight and thought I would post it. It sure does bring back some fond memories and tugged at my heart again just like it used to. The first song is one I listened to many times in my car. The second one is my prayer and I trust it it yours also. No matter what comes my way I will trust God in it for He is worthy of all my faith, trust and love. Lord Bless

Twila Paris -The Warrior is a Child/I Will Trust Him

WHAT TIME DOES YOUR CHURCH START?

Have you ever been asked that question before? Years ago most churches that I knew of , had the traditional Sunday starting times of 10 AM Sunday School , 11 AM Worship Service , 7:30 Evening Service. If you wanted to visit a different church you could be confident that most likely those three times were the times for each of the Sunday services. Now days it seems no two churches are alike with their starting times. Churches today that have multiple services may meet as early as 8 am and even have a Saturday evening service. Some churches hold Sunday afternoon services because they share a building with another church. Many evening services now start as early as 5 pm with some churches choosing to not meet together at all or meet in small groups in various members’ homes.

WHAT TIME DOES YOUR CHURCH START ? At Community Baptist Church that question has several different answers depending on who you ask. For many members of CBC, church starts well before they arrive at Brownstown Middle School on Sunday morning. Some prepare sermons and lessons during the week while others make sure all the ministries are covered for the upcoming Sunday gathering. Early Sunday morning several make coffee at home to bring, while others pick up bagels and other goodies for Café community. Someone else strategically places the guest parking signs at various locations around our meeting place.

Church starts for others at 8:30 a.m. when the doors are opened for the preparation of changing a school building into a church meeting place. Some are there every week at this time while others join in once a month for their rotating set-up responsibility. At this time tables and chairs are moved into position, sound equipment is set-up and tested, and video screens and monitors are put into place. Other activities include Children’s Ministry rooms being organized, needed supplies being transported from the storage cabinets to their proper places, an information table is created, and all the food and drink preparations for Café Community are completed. For other members Church starts at 9:00 when the Ensemble starts to practice the songs for the morning, the nursery and two and three year old classrooms are prepared for the children’s arrival, and the greeters and ushers prepare for their important ministry of the day.

But when someone asks the question WHAT TIME DOES YOUR CHURCH START, what they usually want to know is “when does the actual worship service begin?. The answer to that question at CBC is 9:30 a.m. That is the time Pastor Brown begins our service with announcements. After that we sing together, pray together, give our offerings to the Lord, and hear God’s Word so wonderfully preached and taught each week. So if you want to be on time for the 9:30 AM morning worship service at CBC I have a suggestion for you. I would walk through the front door of Brownstown Middle School no later than 9:15. That should give you time to greet the many friendly folks at CBC, place your children in either the nursery or two and three year old classroom if need be, look at the materials and information sheets on the book table, receive your bulletin from an usher, and find a seat for the 9:30 start. So what time does church start at CBC? I think the best answer is to start thinking …no later that 9:15!

Now I can hear the next question coming, WHAT TIME DOES YOUR CHURCH END? That is a question that will have to wait for another day!

Recession?

On Saturday after attending a wedding Benita and I attended the Boilermakers Dinner -dance. There are several things that make the dinner-dance so appealing to attend.It is a chance to see many of the guys in a suit and without a hardhat on, good food, and it is free! This is the first dinner-dance we have had in five years and it was the largest attended of all the other ones I have attended. Over 230 people were there I was told. It took place at the new MGM Grand Casino Hotel downtown and was very classy. Benita and I arrived just in time to eat and left before the party got to wild. We parked in the Casino parking garage and had to walk through the gambling area to get to the banquet room. One thing that was very evident during our walk through was it was packed with people putting their money in machines and on gambling tables. It sure did not look like there was any kind of recession going on in Detroit by the size of the crowd.I have included my favorite picture from the night.

Anagrams with my Own Definitions Part 4

BOOMERANG BOOGERMAN (he keeps coming back to scare me!)

BASHER REHABS (goes to a place to learn not to bash anyone anymore)

SNAKEBIT BEATNIKS (an unlucky nonconformist)

OBTAIN BONITA (get beautiful fish here!)

DECAF FACED (still sleepy eyed)

INCASED CANDIES (M&Ms)

NINETIES EINSTEIN (smartest man of the 1990s decade)

HAPPIEST EPITAPHS (here lies Les Moore – no less no more)

OVERIDLE EVILDOER (idle hands are the devil’s workshop)

RAMMIEST MARMITES (a large ram like soup kettle)

IDOLISE DOILIES (make a great fuss over little napkins)

Bad Weather Sundays

Today was the fourth or fifth bad weather Sunday morning in a row. This along with the strain of sickness going through our church has really been hurting our attendance. The good news is we only have one more Sunday left in Feb. meaning March is just around the corner. Another great sign is the Tigers have reported to spring training down in Lakeland Florida. I am looking forward to spring this year. Can you tell?

Weddings

Today our friend's daughter is getting married. I have observed over the years that weddings tend to be a big deal for the women and not that big a deal to the men. Personally I am not a big fan of weddings and all the trappings that go with them. I think a more simplictic approach to weddings in our culture would be wise. Often lots of time, money and energy are spent for such a short celebration. I have talked to many people about their past weddings and most would have done things differently. I have heard some say they wished they had the money that was spent on the wedding and put it toward the start of their new life together. Those sentiments often get lost in the moment though as people prepare for the big event. Congratulations Trisha and Paul and Lord Bless.

Lost in the Moment

geek quiz

I went to my friend Larry's blog(Geekbert) today and found out about a geek quiz he took. Now we often accuse Larry of being a geek for his expertise with computers (or macs more specificly). Our Pastor lovingly calls him our "professor of geekology". Larry posted his score on his blog and it was 64%.Now no one has ever accused me of being a geek so I thought I would take the quiz and see what my score was. It turned out that my score was a whopping 13%. Now to prove how correct this score was, I attempted to place the quiz into my blog like Larry did and was not able to do it. So, If you want to take the quiz I think I know how to copy and paste the link to his blog here so you can go there and do it.
http://geekbert.blogspot.com/

Happy V Day?

Today is Feb. 14. A special day to many people, but just another day to my wife and me. We are a little different when it comes to these made up holidays. We call them "Hall-Mark Holidays". That means they are holidays created and advertised by those who want you to buy their over priced products. We have discovered that if we do want to buy each other something the better time to do this is right after these "Hall Mark Holidays"... when everything is 50 to 75 per cent off!

A Lesson Learned

As I posted on Saturday I preached on Sunday at our church. I filled in for Pastor Ken who was suffering from the effects of the flu. I decided to preach a message I first preached some 25 years ago. Now over the years I have refined, improved, and added to this sermon. What lesson did I learn on Sunday? When you add to a message it can get to long to give in the alotted time! While I was preaching Sunday, I discovered very quickly I had to much material for the 35 minutes I had to preach. So I did what I had to do. I started making decisions on what I would preach and what I would skip over.
Preaching is a very dynamic exercise that I throughly enjoy doing. If you would of told me when I was in High School that I would one day in the future stand before people and talk about the Bible I would have said you were crazy. As a matter of fact I remember taking a zero on an oral report because I was afraid to get up in front of a class full of my peers. I credit this change in my life to the grace of God and I thank Him for it. If you are interested, the link to my message on Sunday can be found on this page.

thttp://www.communitybaptist.to/media.htm

Benita Sees her First Golden Eagle

After hours of bird watching this year Benita finally saw her first Golden Eagle. Golden Eagles migrate late in the year so she saw many other raptors fly over before she spotted the Golden Eagle. Of course this was the high lite of her birding year. The video below is not the one she saw but gives you an idea of what they look like.

Benita' Loves Eagles

Anagrams with my definitions part 3

GRANDAM GRANDMA (what the teenage grandson says he wants for Christmas)

SEAWATER TEAWARES (undrinkable tea service)

GATEWAY GETAWAY (computer theft)

MARGINAL ALARMING (just slightly alarming)

AGAINST ANTISAG (double negative?)

MARITAL MARTIAL (person who looks out for married couples)

AIRMAN MARINA (where the airforce keep their sailboats)

ANAL ALAN (derogatory nickname)

RAMPANT MANTRAP (marriage??)

BLACKLIST STICKBALL (another sports scandal)

Who am I?

I watched this video for the first time last year. In 10 months it has had over 1,700,000 views on Youtube. If you can not figure out how the visuals are being done, wait until the end of the video and you will get the answer.

Who Am I?

Preach the Word.

Last night my Pastor called and told me he was sick and was thinking he may not be able to preach on Sunday. I told him I could get something ready to preach if he was not better by then. 2 Timothy 4:2 came to my mind after our conversation.

Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. (2 Timothy 4:2)

As a preacher of the gospel I should always have a message ready to share whenever the opportunity arises. I immediately started going through my sermon files to see what I could preach . My eyes quickly went to a sermon I had first preached over 25 years ago! I then remembered that it was the sermon I had preached as part of my ordination service on Mother's Day, 1982. Now I have revised, updated, and added to it several times over the years, but the outline is still very similar to the one I used in 1982. My Pastor e-mailed me this morning and told me he thought it best that I preach tomorrow. Although I wish Pastor could preach tomorrow, I look forward to the opportunity to "Preach the Word"!

Ancient Words

Last Sunday we sang a song we had never sung before at our church. It is called "Ancient Days" and was written by Michael W. Smith. The song is a great reminder of what the Word of God is. I look forward to singing it many more times. Below is a version of the song as sung by Steve Green. The words are included in the video. The word of God may be old, but it is not old fashioned, It may be ancient ,but it will endure forever, and it may talk about things that happened many years ago but it is more relative than any other book that has been written or ever will be written. Read it, Study it, Memorize it, but most importantly Obey it!

James 1:22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.

Ancient Words

A Little Thursday Humor

Thought it was time to post a Youtube Video. This is one I catch myself singing at times. I do not eat Krispy Kreme donuts anymore but I used to enjoy them. Maybe they ought to use this song to promote their product in the future.I know it makes me want to go buy some.

Tim Hawkins

Cutthroat Scrabble

Back in 2005 Benita and I visited Reno Nevada. I went to play in the National Scrabble Tournament and she went to see some of the sights. After I got back home I did an interview with our local newspaper about my experiences at the tournament. The lady who wrote the article called me on my cell phone while I was driving in my car. (Something that I get upset with other people doing when I see them on the road driving 20 miles an hour under the speed limit!)We talked for about 20 minutes as she asked me many questions.Several weeks later the article, with Benita and my picture added, were included in the paper. It was funny how I was qouted saying some things I did not say, and how she added things that were not true. For instance she talked about us playing with wooden tiles. Although most scrabble games are played this way, tournament scrabble games are played with plastic tiles so people cannot feel for the smooth wooden tiles as they search for one of the two blank tiles. Despite all of this it was kind of neat to see our pictures in the paper and have several people we known contact us and let us know they saw it too. In case you missed it I have posted a picture of it down below.
This years nationals are in Orlando in July. Not sure yet if I want to be in Orlando in July! We will see.

Favorite Web Sites

I have a lot of Web Sites I like to visit. One I have found recently is called oneplace.com. It is a site where you can watch videos of sermons that have been preached. Tonight I watched a sermon by one of my favorite preachers, John MacArthur. The sermon had two parts and was called "Children and the Kingdom of God". In the presentation the speaker deals with the question "What happens to children when they die?". At the end of the sermon there was an interview shown of a couple who lost a young child and how they are coping with it. If you have lost a child in the past or know someone who has I would highly recommend watching this. Just go to this web site...

http://oneplace.com/ministries/Grace_to_You_Video/

Then go to Archives and look for dates Jan. 6, and Jan. 13.
"Children and the Kingdom of God"

Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment.Thanks

More anagrams with my definitions

BLASTEMAL MEATBALLS (embryonic cells that go with spaghetti)

SAXTUBA SUBTAXA (a scientific classification of a bass sax horn)

HEADRACES SCAREHEAD (but I am afraid of water channels)

HARDCASE CHARADES (a difficult party game)

CANVASED ADVANCES (to examine thoroughly as you move ahead)

REATTACK ATTACKER ( a multiple offender)

HAIRCAP CHARPAI (place for a hat to sleep)

SATIRICAL RACIALIST (makes fun of people that are different from him)

PACKMAN MANPACK (everyone wants one of these to carry stuff in)

AMTRAC TARMAC (where the train goes before it takes off)

Let My Words Be Few

So much for the BIG snow storm!

Well this morning, after about only 4 hours of sleep, my alarm went off at 5 am. The last time during the night I remember looking outside it was 2 o'clock and it had still not started snowing. At five there was just one or two inches of snow on the ground. I left at about 5:20 and arrived at work at 6 o'clock, one hour before our starting time. After putting in my 8 hour day I had an easy drive home as the roads were in good shape. At least all the school kids had a day off from school. I do not think I will have a hard time going to sleep tonight!

Only two more months until opening day!!