Theological Musings

hose of you who have been reading for any length of time, or who know me personally, know I have a strong attraction to Starbucks. We don’t have a Starbucks anywhere close, but anytime we get “off the mountain”, we try to find one and visit it.

Recently, my good friend Alan Knox wrote a very creative post about Starbucks that I would like to recommend. It’s called “A Cup o’ Joe or a Cup with Joe“. I highly suggest that you all read it. Enjoy the comment thread after it, too.

I don’t want to give too much away, but just know that you should read it, even if you don’t drink coffee (you’ll understand, hopefully). Be forewarned, though: It might be a little convicting.

Until next time,

steve

ay back in early March of this year, I created a small bit of controversy in what resulted in the heaviest traffic this blog had ever seen. On one day (March 7), I received 396 page loads. (For those of you not familiar with website stats, a page load is any time a page is viewed and does not necessarily represent unique visitors.) I have never come close to that amount of traffic in one day since. For the most part, I get about 60, 70, maybe 80 hits on a good day.

Until today…

Apparently, there is a “social bookmarking” site called stumbleupon.com which enables people to browse to blogs and websites that fit their interests. If I understand it correctly (I’m not even sure I know how all this works), someone sees something that they like, and they “stumble it”, meaning that they list that page on stumbleupon.com. Then, others who are interested in similar topics can click a button in their browser and surf from site to site viewing content that is related to those topics.

So, apparently someone really liked my post “You Might Be Misrepresenting God”. And they decided to “stumble it”. I saw a bump the other day to 171 page loads — quite a bit for me in recent months as I haven’t been writing much and haven’t really stirred too many pots.

But today, the traffic started again, and as of the writing of this post there have been 2,387 page loads today. I’m not really big on stats like I used to be, but I can’t help feeling a little funny about the fact that so many people are looking at this blog all of a sudden. Maybe I should have quit writing when I said I was losing my voice!!

So, the burning question is: who stumbled me?? I’m not sure yet whether to thank you or to permanently ban you from my blog…hehe! Just kidding.

Until next time,

steve

continue to generate a backlog of potential posts in the middle of my hectic life, but once again I am bailing on those potential posts to give you a brief update on things here in the Sensenig household.

First of all, I am very late in mentioning this, but several weeks ago, Christy and I (along with our son) had the great pleasure of having dinner with Brandon and Heather, long-time readers and commenters and blogging buddies. They decided to vacation up here in the Boone area, and we were able to meet them for dinner one evening. What a joy!

Even though Brandon and Heather haven’t been as active in the blogosphere for several months as they used to be, we still had lots to talk about. Our dinner together ended up being about 3 1/2 hours together, only cut short because the restaurant was closing! Thanks for a great visit, both of you, and I hope we can do it again!

My quest to meet each of my readers personally continues…

Additionally, I am still waiting to have an interview scheduled at Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA. They had hoped to interview late this month, but it’s already the 24th and I still don’t have an interview date. They have assured me that they want to interview me, but I’m not sure how much longer the process will take. So, for the time being, there are no real plans to move.

I had mentioned a while ago on this blog that Christy and I were going through the process of getting licensed for foster/adoptive care. We have a separate blog that talks about that: Love Each Child. If you would like to see some recent exciting events in our lives, please go there and read this post by me, and this one by Christy. (Those of you who read Christy’s blog have already seen these links.)

Needless to say, life around here is very exciting, even though we know very little of what tomorrow will bring! But I do know this: Our God is a very good god, and we feel so very blessed to be able to be His children. While many things in our future remain to be seen, we are very much at peace with the fact that God is orchestrating things that go beyond our dreams and imaginations. And we feel very blessed already.

One more little update: Several months ago, I asked for assistance in writing an article for a publication. Thank you very much to those of you who answered my request and gave suggestions. I used many of those suggestions. I am pleased to announce that within a couple of weeks, the Fall issue of the wonderful quarterly publication The Old Schoolhouse will be carrying the resulting article in their special Christmas section.

I’m very honored to be published in this magazine, one which has very quickly become perhaps the leading publication for the homeschool community. With a publication run of about 33,000 I am pleased to know that my first published article will be helping many people celebrate Christmas this year by bringing new meaning to some well-known songs.

I guess that about wraps up this personal update. Thanks for sticking around, even with the lack of regular posting here! I appreciate every one of my readers and commenters.

Until next time,

steve

y good blogging buddy Tony Sisk has often posted some church signs on his blog that we have had fun “critiquing”.  And one time, in the course of the discussion, he pointed us to a blog that exists solely to document some of the very worst church signs.  The blog is entitled Crummy Church Signs, and the commentaries that follow the signs are often quite hilarious.

In the last week, I’ve started submitting some signs to the blog, and have enjoyed getting into that.  I thought that some of my readers might enjoy reading some truly awful church sign slogans, so I figured I’d share the link with you.

Need a laugh?  Go check out Crummy Church Signs.  And hopefully someday, I’ll actually get back to writing substantive material on this blog!

Until next time,

steve

(HT: TangentIdea)

I’m really laughing hard over this. And I thought that, even though it has nothing to do with theology, Scripture, or church, my regular readers would get a kick out of it, too.

This is not a prank or anything, so don’t feel like you’re getting set up for something. It’s completely legit, and shows that someone at Google has a great sense of humor! Just follow these steps:

• Go to Google.
• Click on “Maps”
• Click on “Get Directions”
• In the “Start Address” box, type in “New York”
• In the “End Address” box, type in “Oslo” (as in, Norway)
• Click “Get Directions”
• Now, scroll down until you find step #23…..