Random

> THE FABLED LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS has been discovered in a salt marsh in southern Spain -- so researchers believe. ~ BBC

> IS SARAH PALIN moving to Arizona? ~ AZ Central

> THERE WAS a lot of extra traffic on our street yesterday morning as I was loading the church's trailer in my driveway. So I stepped around the corner and saw that the police were diverting traffic off 51st Ave and onto our street because of a crash that sent three people, including two police officers to the hospital. The wreck occurred at 12:20 a.m. and the road was closed until mid-afternoon. ~ AZ Central

> COVENANT WORLD RELIEF is channeling funds through the Japanese Covenant Church. ~ story | donate online

> THE EARTHQUAKE has sped up the earth's rotation and shortened the days. What amazes me is that the people who monitor such things are able to calculate this so quickly. ~ link

> MY SERMON notes on temptation (Matthew 4:1-11) are online ~ link

> WONDERFUL SURPRISE! -- Jon Bredow dropped in on us at MasterPiece yesterday morning. Jon is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas Arlington and was in Phoenix for a work-related meeting. He and Denise, and their two boys, were a part of our church plant in Bedford, Texas -- some 20 years ago.

> WE'RE AT that stage where six additional adults on a Sunday morning make a world of difference in the dynamic of the whole group. Yesterday morning was great!

> I THOUGHT that the story was about Barackatology. ~ link

> HOW MORMONISM may shape the next presidential election -- "...the possibility of two credible Mormon presidential candidates could create a veritable LDSapalooza." ~ link

> GOOGLE may try to break into social networking again -- this time with a slightly different approach -- "Everything users share on Circles will be shared only with the most appropriate circle of social contacts in their lives, not with all your contacts in bulk." ~ link