Bag of Randomness

  • In the past two years, two close pastoral friends of mine have moved to opportunities out of state.  So I still have my Favorite East Coast Pastor, he just moved a little further south; but now my Favorite Llano Estacado Pastor is going to become my Favorite Deep South Pastor, which  means my childhood friend who is a pastor in Abilene becomes my Favorite Pastor of All of West Texas.
  • Speaking of pastors, a few years ago a BoN reader encouraged me to check out Adam Hamilton, and now he just might be my favorite pastor.  I’ve been especially touched by a recent series focusing on death.  In particular, the sermon on life after death and the one on Christianity and suicide.
  • Adam Hamilton sounds like the name of a love child between two Founding Fathers.
  • Somewhat random thought that went through my head as I typed that last bullet . . . I think most Christians nowadays think of Heaven as a right and not as a reward, and unfortunately I think it’s often taught/preached that way to get people ‘saved.’
  • My bike got a tune up recently and I took it for a spin yesterday, it’s amazing how much smoother it rides, but now that the gears work correctly, I found I didn’t get as good as a workout since I was limited on my gear selection.
  • I bought a speedometer/odometer thingy for it and the instructions were horrible.  Thankfully some bike shop owner on YouTube was nice enough to make his own instructional video.
  • Politicians are going to be barred from speaking at this year’s 9/11 ceremony in New York.  I think that’s a great decision, and no president or governor wants to be the first to willfully choose not to attend . . . it could be seen as very insensitive and there’s got to be a point in which enough time has passed that presidents and governors need not attend.  I’m just glad the  National September 11 Memorial and Museum made the choice as it made it easier for politicians, not that I like politicians all that much.
  • I recently read up on Rolling Stone member Bill Wyman.  When he was 47, he dated a 13-year-old Mandy Smith and married her when she turned eighteen.  Her mother eventually married Bill Wynman’s son . . . which mean that Mandy Smith’s mother was simultaneously Bill Wyman’s mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
  • Change you Yahoo! password now.
  • A D.C. officer allegedly said he would shoot the First Lady.
  • How Christopher Nolan Rebuilt Batman
  • I wish Spider-Man was one word like Batman and Superman.
  • An impressive Star Trek home theater [Thanks, Hans!]
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Dead Husband Sends Fax From Heaven

LEBANON, TN (WSMV) – When a loved one dies, it’s only natural to wonder what comes next, but a Lebanon woman said after he husband died, she got something she never expected.

Faye Aldridge calls it undeniable proof of the afterlife.

When Aldridge’s husband, Burke Aldridge, was in the final stages of cancer, he promised to send her a fax from heaven.

She assumed it was just the morphine talking, but you can imagine how shocked she was when just days after his death he apparently made good on that promise.

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But just 21 days later, the 53-year-old man was dead, and the unthinkable began to unfold.

Within hours of being pronounced dead at the hospital, oncologist Dr. Carl Willis and neurosurgeon Dr. Arthur Cushman, two men who had never met, both swore Burke Aldridge paid them a visit at their homes before either of them even knew he was dead.

In both instances, Burke Aldridge’s visit was brief and his message of peace and comfort was concise, the doctors said.

Shortly before his death, Burke had made a promise to reach out to his wife in a unique way from heaven. And within days of his death, the doctors gave their own accounts to Faye Aldridge via fax.

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