A Comparison

This week somebody sent me this in an email. Thought it was interesting.

Al Sanders, in his book Crisis in Morality, compares the descendants of two men who lived in the United States about 150 years ago.

Max Jukes was an atheist. He did not believe in Christ or in Christian training. He married an ungodly girl and refused to take his children to church, even when they asked to go. At the time of this research, there were approximately 1200 descendants from this union.
Of these…
• 310 died as paupers,
• at least 150 were criminals,
• 7 were murderers,
• 100 were drunkards,
• and more than half of the women were prostitutes.

Jonathan Edwards lived at the same time as Max Jukes, but he married a godly woman. He loved the Lord and saw that his children were in church every Sunday as he served the Lord to the best of his ability. An investigation was made of 1,394 of his known descendants.

Thirteen of his offspring became college presidents,
• 65 became college professors,
• 100 lawyers,
• 30 judges,
• 60 physicians,
• 76 army and navy officers,
• 100 preachers and missionaries,
• 60 authors of prominence,
• 3 United States Senators,
• one Vice President of the United States,
• 80 public officials in other capacities, and
• 295 college graduates, among whom were governors of states and ministers to foreign countries.

A Blogging Pastor's Crutch? :)

Happy Clean Up Your Room Day!

That's right, today is Clean Up Your Room Day. My beautiful and amazing wife Jessica was kind enough to inform me of this holiday... not sure what to think about that :)

In case you are room-cleaning challenged like me here are a few tips that may prove helpful!

Coffee Tip

Many of you know that I love coffee and am a Starbucks frequenter. Through my experiences I've developed a stirring method which I would love to pass along. Because I like to stir in my cream and sugar for more than five seconds I've found it necessary to avoid using the wooden stirrer they provide.

In my experience, if you stir too long with the wooden stirrer, your entire cup of coffee tastes like wood. Unless you like that effect I suggest a different approach. Instead of using the wooden stirrer, I prefer to use one of the short, green, plastic straws for my stirring. This will enable you to stir for as long as you want without having to worry about your coffee tasting like wood.

I know that you will sleep better tonight now that you have this knowledge :)