My Presidential Platform: Replace Daylight Savings Time
My Fellow Americans, The time to right a grave injustice is NOW. I need your support. With God’s help and your vote, we will quench the hell-spawned fires of Daylight Savings Time. I am announcing that I will run for POTUS in 2010. I know that’s two years early, but desperate times call for desperate measures.  My platform is simple: Abolish Daylight Savings Time as we know it, and replac

A Cruise Ship or a Battleship?
Which image better describes a church? Your church?  I know, I know… it’s a metaphor.  All metaphors break down at some point.  Work with me. CRUISE SHIP: hassle-free, entertaining, self-indulgent, relatively pointless tour with no objective beyond your own pleasure. Relationships exist for mutual satisfaction&

The Truest Motivator
“For the love of Christ compels us…” (2 Corinthians 5:14). I sat on a church board as an inexperienced 20-something. It was a big board, with over twenty men. All were older, most were grandfathers. In one meeting we were discussing the need for more volunteers. One gentleman, a pillar in the church, asserted, “Our people should be serving Chr

Magic Tricks
I’m not kidding… try to figure out the first one (with his arms), and pleeeeeeaze tell me how he did it.  The second one (with the cards), is so cool, I’m not even gonna try to figure it out. Quick reminder: our Saturday worship service has a new start time: 5:00!  And don’t forget the new 12:30 service w/cookout afterwards! We supply everything… Posted in Bill Giovannetti, Maxgrace, Video

Grace Words in the Old Testament
13 So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. (Joel 2:13, NKJV). This is one of my favorite Old Testament verses. It not only turns around a chapter and a half of unpleasantness, it does so by clumping together the a