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I just finished building a new website for Justin Gramm, our worship leader at LifePoint.  He's recorded a new CD and the site is designed to promote it.

Chivalry lives in San Diego! Of all places, I saw it first-hand on the trolley last Friday night.It was about 5:30 and the train was filled up. At the City College stop, an older lady got on board and began to grab a handle, having resigned herself to standing up. Two different guys and one gal actually got up and offered her their seat. I felt like giving them a thumbs up.It’s a sad fact that we’re not surprised much any more by bad behavior. What people do find surprising are the little acts of kindness and courtesy that get extended to them unexpectantly. Acts 10:38 describes Jesus as someone who “went around doing good.”May God's people be known as a church community of people who go around doing good. Plus, it’s fun surprising people.

Many of you know that I am a bi-vocational pastor. That's a fancy way of saying that I work two jobs -- one as a pastor at LifePoint and the other as ecommerce manager at Blue Haven Pools and Spas Supplies Direct.While perusing Google News, I noticed another route to being bi-vocational. This is from USA Today.Priest charged with selling coke from campus rectory A Catholic priest was charged this week with selling cocaine from his office and residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, local news organizations report. The Rev. Christopher Layden, 33, was arrested Wednesday after police found "about 3 grams of powder cocaine and items of drug paraphernalia" while executing a search warrant on the campus, according to The Pantagraph. Layden pleaded not guilty to three charges, the paper says.The News-Gazette reports an informant told police that he has used cocaine with the priest "40 to…

I've been following the media frenzy over the fact that John McCain's newly minted running mate has a 17-year-old daughter who is pregnant. The news came to light because of a liberal blog that spread the rumor that Palin's infant son actually belonged to her 17-year-old daughter. This nasty rumor forced the Palins to set the record straight, which included sharing the news about her pregnant daughter.What is amazing is how much air time and print space is getting devoted to this story. It seems rather ironic -- and a bit hypocritical -- that the press would pursue this story when we were told that a politician's sex life didn't matter when that politician was named Bill Clinton. And we're not even talking about the candidate herself but her 17-year-old daughter!At first blush, it appears to be two things: 1) it appears to be the liberal press saying, "Gotcha" to…

I'm at the Padres game and I'm surrounded by Mormon missionaries ... At least there won't be a drunk guy within five feet.