This year Thanksgiving will be at our house in Brunswick. So I got to looking around at Cabellas.com (which has all your cooking supplies). And when I found out, I knew I had to get a turkey deep fryer. I have wanted to try cooking a turkey this way for years, but never really had the opportunity – UNTIL NOW.

And who wants to cook a fowl in a heated box. What is needed is a vat of volatile oil, highly compressed propane gas, a wet bird, and a whole lot of potential for danger. In the mean time until Turkey Day (T-Day), I will try some test runs on smaller animals.

That just reminded me, I need to check on my home insurance coverage.

I have been blogging for about a year now and it has been an interesting and fun experience. The reason that I began to blog is explained here (see quote from first blog below).

“Here it is — my first post, blog -whatever. I suppose I should tell you why I
have added something else to my “to do” list by launching a blog. I believe
that God desires for me to teach about His Word, the Bible, and ways that people can apply it to their lives.

So this blog is dedicated to that purpose. I promise that if you come back, you will never see pictures of cats, or stories of how I have a rash (which I don’t) or any other trivial subjects. I will attempt, with each new post, to have something that I have learned that I feel will benefit others.

So we begin with purpose — why have yet another blog? Specifically why should I begin a blog? It is my desire to expand my realm of influence beyond my congregation and to potentially share the truths of the Bible to many others. And I also understand that I have along ways to go before I am one of those super-pastors. So respond back and we can learn together. Welcome to our journey together.” – Sept. 14th 2007

What I have discovered is that as a leader and pastor people know that I teach the Bible and get that already from me on Sunday morning. But what they can’t get from me is who I am as a person. On Sunday mornings and in meetings it is hard to see who I am other than a pastor. So my blog has transitioned from trying to teach people all the time, to just being myself and telling others what’s going on in my family (church and nuclear). If a believer in Christ is seeking to follow Christ and to live an obedient life this is the most powerful teaching anyway.

I have also begun to write on things that may seem trivial (lost teeth, vacations, church events, etc…) and this is really what sharing is all about anyway. God is blessing our family in so many ways, and I want to tell others about it. Another reason is that those great “ah-ha” moments don’t come to me everyday. That’s just not me, I’m not an intellectual (which is a relative term). I’m just an everyday guy who loves God and his family and is trying to figure things out as he goes.

So, friend, I am glad that you check in and read the blog from time to time. Thanks also to those of you who leave a comment every now and then, and let’s see what another year brings. I hope there are no rashes, because that’s just going to be embarrassing!

Tonight was the first night of having Cub Scouts at our house. As the newly appointed Den Leader I put the night together. It has been a long while since I had to keep a classroom full of six year old boys occupied for an entire hour. Not only that but I was supposed to teach them something. So we began with making a banner, saying the Pledge of Allegiance. We covered the Cub Scout Pledge, Cub Scout Sign, and the Cub Scout Promise. If you don’t know what these things are, that’s ok I didn’t know either before a couple of days ago.

The past two weeks have been a mad dash to get uniforms, find out where all the patches go, learn how Boy Scouts is structured, find a “Go See It” for our group (yeah, I had to learn what that is too), and plan the meeting (which included cleaning our basement). I learned that I need to plan twice as much as I had planned, and move things along twice as fast. I have a renewed respect for our Sunday School teachers – especially the ones that teach my boys!