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Showing posts with label Children. Show all posts
10/03/2021
Children - Mark 10:2-16 - Pentecost 20 - World Communion Sunday - 10-3-21
"Children" podcast
9/19/2021
Caring - Mark 9:30-37 - Pentecost 18 - 9-19-21
"Caring" podcast
8/21/2008
College
We took our oldest, Marianne, to college today. It doesn't seem that long ago we were taking her to her first day of preschool!
7/29/2008
The Man With the Guitar - Marching Around the Room
While I was on vacation at Peaceful Valley last week, we shot a little video footage that has become the newest episode in The Man With the Guitar video series -- have a look!
7/14/2008
7/11/2008
Tomato Sawyer & Huclkeberry Larry's Big River Rescue
I watched the newest VeggieTale adventure last night. (I know - it's for kids -- but there's so much in these adventures for adults to laugh at too!) Here's my short review:
Pretty standard VeggieTale fun.
Here's a bit more -- mostly little things that adults will notice more than children will.
I noticed quite a few intentional or unintentional references or homages to the following: (Can you find them too?)
Watch the end crowd scene to find some favorite Veggie characters from the past
The Silly song this time . . . It's OK -- but I don't think it'll be one I sing for no apparent reason.
Looking forward to the next one . . .
Pretty standard VeggieTale fun.
Here's a bit more -- mostly little things that adults will notice more than children will.
I noticed quite a few intentional or unintentional references or homages to the following: (Can you find them too?)
- Cheers
- All My Children
- Monty Python
- Brokeback Mountain (I'm thinking unintentional on this one)
- VeggieTales – The Gourds Must Be Crazy
- Gunsmoke (maybe?)
- The Wizard of Oz (just a little)
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- The Dark Knight (the LarryBoy way)
- Keystone Cops/Melodrama
Watch the end crowd scene to find some favorite Veggie characters from the past
The Silly song this time . . . It's OK -- but I don't think it'll be one I sing for no apparent reason.
Looking forward to the next one . . .
7/07/2008
Pastoral handshake
Like many other pastors -- I greet worship attenders at the end of the worship service with a handshake. (I also often greet folks with high fives or knuckle bumps.)
Yesterday I experienced a "laugh out loud" moment during the handshaking.
A 10 year old boy was near -- holding his right had up in what looked to be readiness for a handshake.
When I reached to shake his hand, he shook his head, "no."
I asked, "No handshake today?"
He replied, (while holding his hand palm up.) "I just sneezed."
I shook his left hand instead.
Yesterday I experienced a "laugh out loud" moment during the handshaking.
A 10 year old boy was near -- holding his right had up in what looked to be readiness for a handshake.
When I reached to shake his hand, he shook his head, "no."
I asked, "No handshake today?"
He replied, (while holding his hand palm up.) "I just sneezed."
I shook his left hand instead.
6/21/2008
Pastoral prayer
A few weeks back, just at the end of the children's sermon at Union Congregational UCC in Somonauk, one of the youngest children walked up to me and reached her hands up towards me. I held them as we closed in prayer. Here's a picture of that moment:
11/15/2007
10/18/2007
Unconscionable
Lay the rhetoric aside. Forget the fact that it will sweep many "no" voters out of office at the next opportunity.
Millions of uninsured children just got slapped in the face by a bunch of adults who should know better.
Millions of uninsured children just got slapped in the face by a bunch of adults who should know better.
10/04/2007
Let's shift it into override
President Bush has made a horrible mistake.
Our President's veto of the expanded SCHIP program feels like a huge "up yours" from the White House to 9 million uninsured children in the United States
President Bush's reasons?
"Poor kids first."
President Bush thinks that SCHIP puts rich kids first? The Children's Defense Fund, an advocate for children's rights, completely disagrees. President Bush is simply wrong.
"I happen to believe that what you're seeing when you expand eligibility for federal programs is the desire by some in Washington, D.C. to federalize health care"
President Bush favors private healthcare and medical savings accounts. I guess he also thinks that government-backed program to insure children is a bad thing. He's wrong again.
I think that congress must override this veto. I'd also like to propose a new bill to take away healthcare coverage from anyone in congress who votes to sustain it. (But that's just me venting anger. . . )
Our President's veto of the expanded SCHIP program feels like a huge "up yours" from the White House to 9 million uninsured children in the United States
President Bush's reasons?
It is too costly-- and is paid for by a tax on tobacco.
"too costly"?! I think we need to have a lesson in priorities, Mr. President."Poor kids first."
President Bush thinks that SCHIP puts rich kids first? The Children's Defense Fund, an advocate for children's rights, completely disagrees. President Bush is simply wrong.
"I happen to believe that what you're seeing when you expand eligibility for federal programs is the desire by some in Washington, D.C. to federalize health care"
President Bush favors private healthcare and medical savings accounts. I guess he also thinks that government-backed program to insure children is a bad thing. He's wrong again.
I think that congress must override this veto. I'd also like to propose a new bill to take away healthcare coverage from anyone in congress who votes to sustain it. (But that's just me venting anger. . . )
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