What we did tonight

***For any of you who have known us for any length of time, please sit down before reading this post. ***
This is the very first time in our Christian walk that we did anything on this night.  We went to our Church’s Hallelujah Party to see what it was all about.  Brien, Tommy and I [...]

Tricked by Treats

This was our feelings on Halloween for many years. It is still an issue that I struggle with every year.
You can listen to Pastor Mark Martin by clicking on the following link:
http://www.calvaryphx.com/media/mp3/tricked%20by%20treats.mp3
Or Print out a booklet by following this link:
http://www.calvaryphx.com/portals/media/TrickedbyTreats.pdf
In His Grace,
Donna

Vote for Values on November 4th

Lisa sent this to me and I just had to share. Thanks Lisa

Tricky Treats

That’s right kids, take your treats and run for the hills.  You never know who will want to “spread your wealth around” now do we ?  Hmm… actually I do know.   Mr. Barack Obama.
Thanks to Jim for this.

3 days until National Novel Writing Month begins

What is NaNoWriMo?

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but [...]

October 31, 1517: A reason to celebrate this day.

October 31st, 1517
Wittenburg, Germany
It was October 31st, 1517 in Wittenburg, Germany.
Martin grasped a hammer and a long piece of paper covered with his writing. He walked out into the street and straight over to the castle church door. It was here that community messages were often posted.
Martin nailed his 95 points of discussion on the [...]

How Former Witches Want You to Celebrate Halloween

Rebekah Montgomery
Contributing Writer

If you are looking for lurid tales of infant sacrifice or ritual rapes of 13-year-old virgins, you won’t find them recounted here. Those horrors may have happened somewhere on October 31st, but the tragedy remembered by some former witches is that Halloween traditions and symbols often can provide too handy of a gateway [...]

I somehow missed this on the news.

This was the largest re-enlistment ceremony ever held in military history.The ceremony was held on the 4th of July, 2008 at Al Faw Palace, Baghdad, Iraq . General David Petraeus officiated. This amazing story was ignored by the ‘mainstream’ media.
For those who have been in the Al [...]

Need4Beads… Our own special ministry!!!

This past week Caty and I, with the help of our mom and Katelyn, Melissa, and Angie Olivas, have been able to produce a total of 70 Jesse bracelets. We brought them to church today and we were very encouraged that so many people had taken interest and actually would want one. We now have [...]

Right-Winged Propaganda Machine? – Warning PG-13

I took this off of Jeff Bettendorf’s blog and just had to share it.

Please don’t forget to vote. If you don’t vote you are basically giving the vote to the opposition.
Donna