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The Major’s Friday Night Disco Party

Flashback to the Spring of 1977. I’m 9-years-old – getting ready to turn 10-years-old, and I’m hangin’ out with my friends down by the creek at the bottom end of Red Wing Lane in Lanham Maryland. One side of the creek I ruled. I was in charge. The territory was known as ‘Chris Day Valley’, and it stretched for as far as my imagination would allow. On the other side of the creek my friends ruled, and their territory was known as ‘Wolf Pack State’. Our two territories neighboured each other, and we were friendly nations. See – even back then I was mastering geographic boundaries !

As I was compiling the paragraph above (and wandering around on the web) I believe that I may have discovered two friends of mine (simultaneously) from that neighbourhood and that time period. I’m gonna try to connect with both of them. I see their pictures (avatars) online, and they look very much as I remember them from over 30 years ago. One of them lived in the last house on the street right before the creek and the two ‘territories’. The other lived in a house just behind mine, and he was one of my first good buddy friends.

Playing on the radio back in the old neighbourhood up and down Red Wing Lane was a lot of Disco music. ABBA (from Sweden) weren’t really a Disco act, but they got with the times when they had to. The result was their only # 1 smash stateside and perhaps their most memorable anthem of the era. It’s “Dancing Queen” !  RE-LIVE !

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Thursday Night Mini Thoughts

– Let’s get spontaneous.
– Let’s get ridiculous.
– This morning at 7:30 AM I already had The Big Cheese on my mind.
– I convinced 5 other coworker dudes to eat Lunch there 4 hours later.
– And so we came, we saw, and we conquered !
– We ordered 2 extra large (16-inch) pizzas for the 6 of us.
– One had pepperoni on it, and the other was full of sausages.
– One dude ate more pizza than all of the others.
– Guilty !
– There were 20 slices in all, and the other 5 dudes ate 3 slices apiece.
– That left 5 slices for moi.
– That was some tasty pizza there !
– I’m lookin’ forward to this upcoming holiday weekend.
– It all starts for me at 11 AM tomorrow (Friday) morning.
– But it starts off with a dental cleaning appointment.
– On Saturday and Sunday I’ll be on the road visiting places.
– It’s sort of like a dry run for a much longer road trip I’m taking in November.
– This blog will go dark for those two days.
– I mean you’ll still be able to access it, but there will be nothing new posted on it.
– Actually I’ll be tweeting, so you’ll be able to see those here on the blog.
– My antiquated cell phone is born again due to its ability to tweet.
– On Monday I’ll blog all about my road trip.
– But before then tomorrow night is Disco night here on the bell-bottom blog.
– I’ve got ABBA with their biggest worldwide smash ever !
– You can dance – You can jive – Having the time of your Life.
– You won’t regret it pal.
– Since there is no ‘Saturday Night Retro’ this weekend I’ve got a treat for you.
– I’ve got Mr. David Hasselhoff with a big hit that he had back in 1997.
– It’s a spirited remake of a very well-known early-1970s pop smash.
– Check out the low-budget production values of this music video:

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My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

EPISODE # 25:  ‘OK Is Not OK’

This week on ‘My Fantastic Journey’ I present to you The Afters out of Dallas Texas. They’ve been together (under several different names) for over a decade now, but they achieved their greatest success a couple of years ago with this long-running monster smash. It was one of the most played songs of the entire year of 2008 at Christian pop and rock radio.

It’s “Never Going Back To OK”. It’s all about waking up from the dead and stepping out in a second chance at Life while looking back at a previous life that was wasted, complacent, tasteless, and bored. That was yesterday, and you know what ?  I’M never going back to OK. I’m here to stay. This is my time. My only Life. My chance to live. Thank You Lord Jesus !

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

Misfortune Cookie

– This morning I attended the Peking campus of Life Pointe Church.
– We had Chinese Restaurant music playing in the background.
– We served crunchy noodles and hot tea at our Peking Cafe.
– Kelly D. hosted during the first service.
– Maybe some day I can host a service.
– Lead Pastor Travis J. returned with normal lips.
– The godliness of good people rescues them;
– The ambition of treacherous people traps them.
– The love of money is the root of all evil.
– Don’t let your money master you.
– Master your money.
– Lord, let me honour You first !
– What good does it do to gain the whole world but to lose our souls ?
– Our tithes and offerings are NOT payment for services rendered.
– They are NOT our dues necessary to belong to a church family.
– God created us with a purpose.
– We should give to the Kingdom – on purpose.
– We should give the very best of who we are.
– True humility and fear of the Lord lead to riches, honor, and long Life.
– Draw close to God, and God will draw close to you.

This week’s message was based on the following Scriptures out of the Good News:  Deuteronomy 14:23, Galatians 6:9, Hebrews 13:5, James 4:8, Luke 16:11, Malachi 3:10, Proverbs 3:9-10, Proverbs 11:6, Proverbs 13:11, Proverbs 21:5, Proverbs 22:4, Proverbs 23:23, Proverbs 27:23-24, Psalm 37:5, Psalm 37:21, Romans 7:17-20.

NEXT WEEK I won’t be at the Homestead campus of Life Pointe Church. I’ll be out-of-town on the left coast of Florida attending a church service outside in a park in Naples. The night before that I’ll be at a church in Lehigh Acres attending a rock concert hosted by Casey W. and headlined by Manic Drive. Nearly 33 months ago I attended a rock concert sponsored by The Call, hosted by Casey, and headlined by Manic Drive – at the original Life Pointe Church building in Homestead. The very next morning I went to church for the first time in over 30 years.