What was the number one song on the day you were born? The day you graduated high school? The day you were married? The day your child was born? The day you accepted Jesus as your savior? The approximate date you were conceived? Any other important or significant day in your life? I found a [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Here is the question of the day that I need your help answering: What Halloween candy do Heather and I need to get to give the trick-or-treaters on Friday night? We have already initially purchased our trick-or-treat candy but it was demolished by a group of teenage guys who came over to watch the Tennessee [...]
Can we please start to set trends?
Posted: October 28, 2008 in Books, Culture, Faith, Friends, Inspirational, Life, Ministry, Movies, Music, People, Spirituality, Technology, TVI have noticed a cultural trend that disturbs me greatly. How many have you seen a “Christian” copy of something that has already been successful in pop culture? You know, when something becomes very popular or successful in culture and then Christians come right behind that product and make a “Christian” version of that thing. [...]
“No Shave November” Is Almost Here
Posted: October 27, 2008 in Culture, Friends, Funny, Inspirational, Life, People, RandomYes, it is time for me to earn some more points to my man card. There is no better way to do that than by participating in “No Shave November” and growing a manly beard. No Shave November is as simple as it sounds. All NSN consists of is picking a part of your body [...]
Confession Time
Posted: October 23, 2008 in Faith, Family, Funny, Life, Ministry, People, Random, SpiritualityAfter writing yesterday’s post, I felt like for my integrity’s sake, I must be honest and share a story with you where I purposely used my minister position for personal gain. This thought was only validated after my good friend Linda’s comment about policemen. Heather and I had only been living in Sulphur Springs a [...]
The Dreaded Question
Posted: October 22, 2008 in Culture, Faith, Life, Ministry, People, SpiritualityI love what I do for a living. There is no doubt in my mind that I am internally wired by God to be a minister. Most importantly, God has called me to be a minister and has equipped me by giving me gifts to be a minister. I very rarely have those “I don’t [...]
Incredible Story (long but worth it)
Posted: October 21, 2008 in Books, Faith, Inspirational, Life, Ministry, People, Spirituality, The Bible, TravelYears ago Chris, then a college student, went to Calcutta to work with Mother Teresa at the House of the Dying. Calcutta and Mexico City are the largest cities in the world, but Calcutta is the poorest. Most of the 13 million people there are destitute. Air pollution is oppressive. Poverty and disease are the [...]
Monday Morning Thoughts
Posted: October 20, 2008 in Books, Culture, Faith, Food, Friends, Life, Ministry, People, Random, Spirituality, Sports, Technology, TVHere are some random thoughts on this Monday morning… I am pretty excited that the Rays beat the Red Sox last night to go to the World Series. I could not have handled any “dynasty” talk regarding the Red Sox. There has got to be some spiritual principle in the fact that the first year [...]
Since this is commercial week on briancromer.com, I wanted to share a commercial with you that I have been trying to find for over a month. Sorry, this one has no point or no debateable topic – it’s just funny. This is about as close to a real-life depiction of what is constantly going on [...]
100K Plus People
Posted: October 16, 2008 in Culture, Faith, Inspirational, Life, Ministry, People, Spirituality, Sports, TVI guess this is officially “analyze culture through commercials week”. I think it is important for us to realize the message that media is streamlining directly into our homes and brains. Here is a commercial for a company called “The Ladders“, which is a job database website similar to monster.com and careerbuilders.com… The line from this [...]
