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The Richland Hills church in Texas — the largest of the nation’s 13,000 a cappella Churches of Christ — has decided to add an instrumental worship assembly with communion on Saturday nights.

Jon Jones, an elder and former pulpit minister at the 6,400-member church, told the congregation Dec. 3 that Richland Hills’ elders “fully and completely” endorsed the decision.

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For those of you that don’t know, Church of Christ churches sing without instruments, that is, a capella.

I remember something a friend of mine said when we were college students in Abilene, which has three colleges.  One was a Baptist college (Hardin-Simmons), one was a Methodist (McMurry), and the other one was Church of Christ (Abilene Christian).  We were Hardin-Simmons students moving a piano from one part of the campus to another, when he suddenly said, “Let’s tick-off the ACU folks and dump this piano in front of their school.”  Denominational humor cracks me up.

Former NFL cornerback Everson Walls is giving an old friend and teammate a gift for life.

The Washington Post reported that Walls has agreed to donate a kidney to former Dallas Cowboys teammate Ron Springs and that surgery is imminent.

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I’m posting this because I still act like a 12 year old.

Translated by Google:

When Humping Dog of dog type it equips the USB connector between the crotch, inserts in the USB port [kakukaku] and the waist are moved, until (it pulls out, it does not stop).

Goldman Pay Rises to $622,000 on Average Per Employee

Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is paying its employees an average of $622,000 this year, after posting the highest profit ever for a securities firm.

The firm set aside $16.5 billion for salaries, bonuses and benefits for its 26,467 employees in the fiscal year ending in November, 40 percent more than it paid out all of last year, according to Goldman’s earnings report today. The firm allocated 43.7 percent of its revenue for pay, down from 46.6 percent.

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