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I know that the world is racing quickly to ruin, but stories like this really make the point clear. It seems that Sweden has shucked any semblance of shame when it comes to abortion by deciding to publicly say that “abortion for any reason” clearly includes “gender selective abortion.” At least in the good ol’ US of A, we still say “it’s really not acceptable to kill your baby just because it’s the wrong sex” (even though gender selective abortions do occur here, they are not a large portion.) But, with the most pro-abortion president in history, and an enamored House and Senate, it’s probably just a matter of time before we have a similarly clarifying bit of legislature.

I guess here in Iowa we are still immune to those kinds of things though. I mean, we only recently jumped on the “gay marriage” bandwagon. If we’re lucky, we’ll have legalized polygamy before we can kill our children just because they are not a boy.

So, I’m looking for a good web site editor to update the look and feel of www.theogeek.net. I don’t want to spend much (read ANYTHING) so I’m checking out some free web site design programs. Hope to find one soon!

Also, I want to start posting the Sunday School lessons I am creating for my class called “Wonderful God, Mighty Savior”. Stay tuned for those.

This is either fun or addictive or both. It’s causing me no end of headache, but I’m learning CSS and trying not to. I got the background like I want it, not I’m trying to figure out how to do cool things like make the posts translucent, keep the header fixed, and so forth. I think I need to rewrite the style.css file just so I can get a better grasp on what’s going on…Or not…

[Update!]

Well, it looks like I’m done for now. I found a cool program called Artisteer that creates a Wordpress blog design for you. After some heavy modification, I think I settled on something I like. The background was created by a cool program called Chaoscope. There are just a few tweaks I’d like to do (like making stuff transparent and fixing the header and sidebar) but I’m just not that motivated right now.

Well, it’s been way too ling since I updated this blog and I have no excuses.  That said, I was sitting here in the living room, thinking about how good God has been to me, my family, and my church lately, that I just couldn’t resist writing about a specific one of those blessings here.

Today, October 5th, 2008 marked our first Lord’s Day celebration in our new facility!  For 50 years, we have been known as “Cedar Hills Evangelical Free Church” or CHEF as we lovingly referred to it.  God blessed us at that facility (which was built in a cornfield which is now a neighborhood with a school and all!) to the point that we needed more space to effectively minister His word to our community (and each other).  So, what better way to show our devotion to the God of the universe than by buying 28 acres of cornfield and building another church!  Today marked the end of 50 years of ministry at CHEF and the beginning of hopefully many more years of ministry at Stonebridge Church (www.stonebridgesite.com)

All I can say is “Wow!”  The worship, led by Pastor Phil, was wonderful, the message given by Pastor Randy was inspiring, Pastor Jason did a wonderful job getting us kicked off, Pastor Mark’s children’s ministry blessed my kids, and Pastor Patrick’s youth program was awesome (at least according to the youth), and the Sunday School class (I am tag-team-teaching a “Starting Points” class with Pastor Robin) was really fun.

Even with the congregational meeting we had after the second service, it was a wonderful day! 

I’m also pleased to report that another church - Cedar Rapids Family Church purchased our old building and had their first Lord’s Day service there today as well.  And, from what I heard, a different church is now worshipping where Cedar Rapids Family Church used to be!  Praise God for His goodness and vision for His flock!

Well, that wraps it up for me today.  I’ll be posting much more frequently in the future, but since I am teaching adult Sunday School, learning Greek, working overtime, and raising a family and a new puppy (an 11 week old Golden named Bear), expect some of the posts to seem as if written by a lunatic!

God By and God Bless,

Jeff.