Please Be Generous!

          As we consider the events occurring in different parts of the world and the knowledge that calamity and suffering will not end until our Lord and Savior returns, the SDB Christian Social Action and Disaster Relief (CSADR) Committee works diligently on your behalf to help provide compassion and relief to those who have need, both in our SDB family and to the rest of humanity, all of whom are created in the image of God.
          It is to that end that we encourage you to join with us in contributing monetarily to the needs of the many people in Japan who have suffered recently due to massive earthquakes and a tsunami. Over one thousand people have lost their lives. Many more are homeless and in need of basic supplies. It appears as though with continued aftershocks and damage to some of the country’s infrastructure that the damage may worsen.
          There are many fine relief agencies that have mobilized to help the people of Japan. We have chosen to donate through Baptist World Aid. This is an organization that we are affiliated with through the Baptist World Alliance and that we have used in the past to help us administer assistance in other regions of the world, even as recently as the earthquakes in Haiti. We encourage you to send your donations to be added to ours to help Japan. Your giving will help provide some comfort in the midst of this tragedy and provides a tangible way to show Christ's love to others.
          May God help us realize in this suffering and in our giving that our creation groans to be reunited with its Creator!
Please send checks with a note that they are for Japan to:
SDB Center
PO Box 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
Or e-gift to with a note for Christian Social Action for Japan here.

A Plane Landed Right on Top of My Car

One of the neat things about living in the ATL is driving around I-285 near the airport and going through the tunnel that is the runway. Yesterday, on my way back from preaching at the SE ATL SDB Church, I was driving under this runway and a plane landed over top of me. It shook my whole car, but a neat experience.

You can see more about the construction about that here. Can't do that any other place but here!

I HATE DIVORCE!

One of the things that occurs on a regular basis is the constant and clockwork like child swapping that goes on in the parking lot in front of my Sears store. (ex)Husbands and wives gather there to exchange custody of their children like they are a book that was borrowed from the library. Sometimes there is an interaction that goes on that is quite pleasant between the adults, as if they split rather amicably. However, this is rare. The normal occurrence is that the parent returning the child opens the other parents car door and places that child in the car, closes it, gets back into their car and leaves. No speaking, no interaction, but almost always the child bawling because of the discord and abandonment felt because of divorce. It has become even more odd recently when I have started to notice a former couple who is swapping their dog back and forth.

This story to explain about how much I hate divorce. I HATE IT! I have lost a close friend who killed himself over the complications of divorce. I have friends who have been emotionally crushed by the devastation of divorce. I see children of divorced parents ending their marriages in divorce. I HATE DIVORCE! Guess who else hates it? That is right God. (Malachi 2:16)

I don't want to have a debate on whether it is permissible or not. Culturally it is permissible and religiously it is permissible under certain circumstances. I just want to know how to make it end. Maybe not until Jesus comes to take His bride. If so, come Lord Jesus! Selah.