Dale Ridge church of Christ

A great resource for prescreening movies and television.

Filed under: Butch Adams, Resources on February 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

I received a new Bible for Christmas that I have had my eye on for awhile. It has a great layout with BIG print and a nice system of cross referencing and “read-along” type information at the end of each verse. It also comes with another feature that is inherent in the definition of new – All of the writing and notations that I have collected in my old Bible since I got it for the Christmas of 1983 are gone.

I’m not sure I could have predicted how lost I was moving about it during Sunday’s sermons without the …

Filed under: Butch Adams on December 30th, 2008 | No Comments »

I recently made an unscheduled stop by a new client’s office to make sure that the project we were about to wrap up was in good order. Since it was an off-the-cuff stop, I really wasn’t prepared to actually do anything except make it look good that I stopped by. I didn’t have any tools with me; my laptop, thumb drive or even my Leatherman “just in case do it all” knife.

Wouldn’t you know it? There were some things that they needed that would have earned me some billable time, but I wasn’t prepared. This wasn’t even related to …

Filed under: Butch Adams, Devotional on December 9th, 2008 | No Comments »

The morning news show was doing its usual reporting of non-news by giving us MORE information about Britney Spears today. It struck me a little different this time because I noticed she actually looked pretty healthy. The question being posed was whether or not she was happy under her father’s management.

What a text book example we have before us in Britney for the need to have discipline in our life. She has all the money and all the influence that she needs to accomplish any number of good deeds yet she has only recently returned from a path of …

Filed under: Butch Adams, Devotional on November 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

Did the election not go your way?

Never fear because God did a wonderful thing for us. He gave us the tool of prayer to help manage our government! We are commanded to obey the laws and pray for the government. (Romans 13:1-7) Even though we may have an administration that doesn’t share the same urgency to legislate laws from a moral standpoint, we are blessed with a system of government that will allow those laws to be passed via other avenues. We see in this passage to the Romans that rulers, good or bad are needed for our safety …

Filed under: Butch Adams, Devotional on November 11th, 2008 | No Comments »