School Supply Giveaway at Southern Highlands Back-to-School Bash

School Supply Giveaway at Southern Highlands Back-to-School Bash

Free Food, Dental Screenings, Haircuts, Concert Offered

Friday, July 31st, residents of the Southern Highlands community and
surrounding areas will gather for the 2nd Annual Back-to-School Bash at
Stonewater Park. Beginning at 6pm, free school supplies will be distributed.
The celebration will feature free food‹including hot dogs, drinks, sno-cones,
and popcorn‹as well as bounce houses, face painting, and kid¹s games. Free
dental screenings and haircuts will be provided by local professionals.


for more information click here

Taking care of my own faults

I saw a friend post this today ... it convicted me.

The Barna Research Group reported that 29% of adult Baptists have been through a divorce. Only my demographic (non-denominational churches) had a higher rate at 34%. Of major Christian denominations, the Catholics and Lutherans have the lowest rate of divorce, perhaps because they can drink. Regardless, shouldn't a relationship with Christ reduce the divorce rate significantly? It absolutely should. So why aren't we different?

The standard judgmental Christian approach is to rail against sins that are either not a concern for us personally or those that don't wander too close to home. For example, a sin that appalls me is....drumroll, please....crack use. Why? Because I have never had a problem with drugs, and crack users tend to be from a different segment of the population than my own. So I can rail and rail against the evils of crack. Smokers? Feel my wrath. I witnessed the slow death of my stepgrandfather from emphysema and consequently never had a desire to smoke. But my conviction was born out of revulsion at the ugly death of my grandfather more than any upright spiritual convictions. If the conversation moves to caffeine addiction, my fervor goes away, and my profound belief in personal space and the separation of church and Starbucks increases dramatically.

Here is a list of sins that typically appall Christians:

Drugs
Drinking
Smoking
Premarital sex
Extramarital sex
Pornography
Cursing
Homosexuality
Immodest Dress

And here is a list of sins that we should care about, but typically don't because caring might interfere with our daily business.

Gossip
Greed
Selfishness
Materialism
Anger
Bitterness
Pride
Unforgiveness
Racism
Envy
Lust
Sexism
Classism
Indifference
Homophobia

The bottom line is this: In our human condition, it is a heck of a lot easier to confess other people's sins than our own. I can spot a sin a mile away in the fog. My own are not as readily apprarent to me.

How common is your name?

This kinda made me feel common today ... then I was reminded that God made me unique and there is no one like me, which is probably a good this for the rest of the world! This is for my very uncommon name James Smith

HowManyOfMe.com

There are people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Jeremy Camp called in this morning ... We talked about his new site www.jeremycampcamp.com and also told him he is the Yoko Ono of the christian music world ...listen here!

Mikes Chair on SOS

The guys from Mikes Chair called in this morning and talked about their new album coming out July 14th if you missed it listen here.

Twitter will kill you

Passengers Strike Back!!!!

Have you ever had something lost or destroyed when you've flown ???? I have and have felt pretty helpless about doing anything about it. I wish I had the talent to do something like this to let the airlines know I wasn't happy!

Useless info

At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be 04:05:06 07/08/09.? This will not happen again for a thousand years.

I just love that last line … duh? Of course next year it will be 05:06:07 08/09/10

I guess it would also happen @ 4pm too right???

Fireworks Stands

I can't wait till the 4th ... every year it makes me feel like a kid.. watching my kid's eyes light up. I have seen some stands around town raising money for youth groups , schools and even foster kids .. here's a list of stands that were called in by you:

Word Of Life Christian Center
Craig and Tenaya in the Albertsons parking lot in Las Vegas
Raising money for youth group/ missions trips

Wise Men and Women of Faith
Cheyenne and Buffalo in Las Vegas

Victory Outreach Henderson
Boulder Highway and Lake Mead
Raising money for the Christian Recovery Home in Henderson

Sunrise Baptist Church
Shatz and E. Lake Mead
Raising money for the Youth Group

Victory Outreach
28th and Cedar
Raising money to go to the Youth Convention

Desert Hills Baptist Church
Nellis blvd and Harmon
They are trying to raise enough money to
pay for the bus and help with any youth who can not afford to pay
for camp.

LV Hurricanes 8 and under baseball team
Towne Center and Twain at the Terribles gas
station

Mountain View Christian Schools (MVCS)
3900 E. Bonanza Road

Grace Baptist Church
Lamb and Stewart
Raising money to help kids go to summer camp


If you know of a Ministry or an organization that is raising money buy selling fireworks ... let me know jd@sosradio.net