Madre's Missives

If a stranger shows up at your door offering to give you a tattoo with a homemade gun wrapped with duct tape - DON'T DO IT.

I'm not taken aback by tattoos, even a lot of them.  It takes a real talent and skill to make works of art permanently in skin.  And since

I am reading Baby's First Tattoo : A Memory Book for Modern Parents Release Date: 03 May, 2002

I loooooove spicy food.  Chips and salsa are a favorite snack. But the salsas at the store are rarely hot enough for me.  So I often supplement them with a couple dozen shakes of crushed red pepper and maybe some tabasco.  I'm not sure when I developed this love for heat, but it wasn't all that long ago that Pace hot salsa was the pinnacle of what I could handle.  I

I am watching Learn to Salsa Dance Video Series, Vol 1: Salsa Dancing Guide for Beginners Release Date: 29 March, 2004

Your parents worry about their little baby all grown up and leaving the nest to go out into the big bad world of college.  You sigh and roll your eyes, they just need to cut the apron strings, you're gonna be just fine.

It looks like they have good reason to worry.  According to /www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060125/1a_cover25.art.htm"

I am watching Animal House

Now there's some bad bumper-sticker theology.  Literally.  It's a bumper sticker I saw that has been stuck in my mind since Saturday night.

I'm sitting here at the Fort Wayne Symposia listening to some really great presentations on Justification and it's mind-boggling how different the Lutheran doctrine of Justification is from what other denominations teach. 

I am reading Gambling for Dummies Release Date: December, 2001

A.k.a. The Local Church movement.  Founded by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee.

A young man I work with is very involved with them.  I've encountered "members" before and everything about the group screams "CULT!" but I haven't been able to spend enough time weeding through their doctrinal statements to pinpoint the false teachings yet.

Is anyone