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Friday, August 10, 2007 Jeffrey Weiss Dallas Morning News:  Church won’t hold funeral for gay man
Friday, August 10, 2007 Angela K. Brown Associated Press: Church cancels memorial for gay Navy vet
Friday, August 10 and Saturday August 11, 2007 Paul Wagner responds to Arlington High Point church public comments with a statement to blogs and media
Friday, August 10, [...]

I saw a statement on a blog today where the blogger, (a theologian) wondered if the Southern Baptist Convention was becoming a cult.
I dismissed it.
After reading a blogger I have a great deal of respect for, I’m wondering if the first blogger is making more sense than I originally gave him credit for.
The second blogger [...]

The pastor of Arlington’s High Point Church told his congregation Sunday that he stood by the church’s decision to retract an offer to host a memorial service for a gay man, prompting applause from the hundreds in the crowd.
“With all the negative e-mail we are receiving right now, it seems that the homosexual community, God [...]

Schools Matter has better details than most news sites about Texas Love Demonstrated Ministries.
They tie kids up at this 32 day boot camp and drag them behind a vehicle because they can’t keep up? And the kid goes back and finishes off the last two weeks?
This is quite the operation. Faith Outreach Centre International, Love Demonstrated Ministries, [...]

I should be in bed, but I’m waiting for some pain killers to kick in. For the second time in two weeks I tangled with the PVC extension on the eves drainpipe and the extension wins.
I tripped over it, and while nothing is broken, I’m a bit sore.  I know it’s there, even with my head in the [...]

The BBC is reporting Afghan Taleban kidnappers have released 2 of the 21 South Korean hostages that have been in captivity since July 19th.
A Taleban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmad, told the BBC the women were sick and had been released as a “sign of goodwill”.
No Afghan or South Korean officials have been able to confirm the [...]

Yesterday I posted a story on a family in Texas whose son Cecil died. The Sinclair family made arrangements for a memorial service in the church his brother Jeff worked for. 
As arrangements were being finalized the church withdrew their offer for a memorial service obstensively because of minister Gary Simons and church offense of the memorial video the family put together. Paul Wagner:
First of all, let [...]