May 2008

Well, I’ve had some problems getting on here so the announcement was delayed a bit…

After much thought and years of blogging behind me now, I have decided to move my blog to its own domain. From here on out, I’ll be blogging at “www.scottcheatham.com“. It’s taken me a while to make this move although I really don’t know why. I’ve enjoyed my blogging endeavors over the years but felt like I needed to move to my own domain to help me with my writing, my ministry, and the efficiency of publishing to the blog.

For those of you who stop by here, please visit the new site and subscribe. I hope you will all make the move with me!

God Bless and thanks for caring enough to visit over the year or so I’ve been at this location. I DO NOT anticipate moving anymore now! *L*

For that handful of readers I have *G*, I’ll have an announcement coming on Monday afternoon sometime (as soon as I’m out of meetings that day). Nothing too earth shattering or anything, but significant nonetheless.

I hope you will join me.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I’ve had a lot of thoughts going through my mind of late. Blog reading for me has been down a bit because of the increasing stress of moving our church to a storefront and the end of the school year work I have in my college courses! Still, a few good posts have caught my eye…

Dan Edelen has a good post on the word “Avarice” using the Green Pepper Index or GPI as his starting point. (The GPI is his term..and a good one I think!). The post deals with our increasing gas crunch and how we as a nation are looking long term. Is it just me or have we seen unprecedented inflation in fuel in the past 2-3 years? You can’t tell me it’s market correction, etc.. If the Chinese are so gas hungry, let them buy the oil and let’s start drilling in Alaska. The Caribou can cope for the next decade or so while we develop alternative fuel sources but I can’t see us paying upwards of $5-6 dollars for a gallon of gas. Families will hurt and the minimum wage isn’t going up again anytime soon for those on the cut line.

Quote from Chris Elrod’s blog: “A good video, cranking worship and relevant marketing…can’t take the
place of one older gentleman speaking truth from the Word of God.”

Another good quote, this time from Ben Arment on the subject of the church planter who gets beaten up and finally comes to his senses: “Money isn’t quite as important… he gets closer to the people… he
reexamines his motives, slows down for his family… invests in kingdom
growth, not just his own church.” Been there, done that. I’m as driven as ever to see our church grow into a self-supporting work but God has used this time to really shape me as a Christian.

Jacob Riggs at “AFrayedKnot” shares an interesting story about a trip to Wendy’s for a burger and the message we as Christians send. Good words Jake!

And for the song of the day….My son comes home from middle school singing “Kites Are Fun” by the Free Design (some groovy 60’s group) and tells me his band teacher played the song for them as a novelty. Apparently somebody else thinks this song is a bit crazy too because they created a video for it on “You Tube”

That’s it for now! Thanks for dropping in and reading. Let me know your thoughts if you have time. God Bless.