Blogroll Update - Bobby Ross’ link fixed.
Hello everyone:
I’m not totally sure what happened, but I noticed today as I was looking through my blog that Bobby Ross’ blog was not appearing on my blogroll. I got into the settings and found that it was set as invisible.
That has been changed now and I am linking visibly to his blog once again.
Sorry Bobby.
-Clarke
Good evening everyone.
I obviously haven’t written in a while. Life has crept up and I’ve been busy. I just finished fall term at school and walked away with a 4.0 GPA again. I’m very thankful for that.
I’m also finishing up a fire engineering academy at work, and that is finally done next week.
I’ve had things to write about, but I’ve kept them to myself so that I had more time to think about what I’m going to say.
So, in the next week or so I’m planning (hoping) to write a couple of posts about what I’ve been up to recently as far as church goes, because a lot has happened just in the last couple of weeks. I also want to take some time and read up on what others have been talking about and I want to comment on recent events such as Richland Hills COC adding a Saturday night service featuring instrumental music.
So, I’ll leave you with that teaser for this second. I’m hoping that my long absense hasn’t pushed too many people away. I’m sure that some people will get their notification email and come over and unsubscribe. I guess we’ll see.
-Clarke
Hello all:
First of all, it has been a while since I posted. I have been pretty busy, and my usual time at work that I can spend doing some blogging has been spent training people and dealling with issues instead. When I’m not at work, it feels like Sara and I are usually doing something with the church. This is good…I like to be busy, but it leaves little time for blogging (or anything else). I planned on reading a couple of books this summer, and haven’t done very much reading…. I’m hoping that things will calm down, but I don’t think they will.
My apologies to everyone about three-quarters of the comments going straight to the spam bucket. I was getting TONS of trackback spam, so I installed Spam Karma…which doesn’t handle TB spam very well. In the process of trying to fix the problem I messed it up. I will be working on it over the next couple of hours to try and fix the problems. As far as I know I “restored” all of the legitimate comments.
Finally…I’d like to ask for prayers. I’ve applied for a promotion at work. However, this isn’t just any promotion. This one includes a house…which will be behind a gate, in an area closed to the public by the Feds, and my office will be on site at the house…. and it also includes a pay raise, the supervision of a couple of people during the summer time, and being the person in charge of this area for public safety purposes. Its one of the most exciting opportunities that I’ve ever been offered. From what I’m told I’ll probably get it, but one other person applied. Could you please pray that whatever is within God’s plan for us is done in this situation.
If I do get this job and we move, it may put off me going back to school full time for a year or two longer. The house is Sara’s dream house and we went to go look at it when it went up for sale. There was no way we could afford to buy it…even though we dreamed of buying it and trying to get me assigned to work in this area full time because of its close location to our of the areas that we protect…and then my employer bought it… and put out this promotional opportunity.
So anyway…if you could spare a moment, please pray.
-Clarke
Hello all:
I’m gonna steal an idea from Greg . I’m very curious who reads this blog… I have a bit of an idea because there are some regulars that comment, but I’m really curious just who is out there reading this.
So… I would really appreciate it if you would comment on this post, even if you are a lurker, just so that I have an idea.
In your comment, please tell me your name, website (if you have one), why you read my blog, where you are, and anything else you’d like to tell us about yourself.
Name: Clarke
Website: Clarkecomments.com; Restorationmovement.org
Why I read: Its my blog!
Location: Portland, Oregon
Anything else: I’ll be blogging from the 1st Annual Stone-Campbell Symposium at Northwest Christian College starting tommorow.
-Clarke