History is about to repeat itself, or at least partly so. Once again a massive hurricane, this one named 'Gustav,' is bearing down on New Orleans. Having lost only an ounce of strength from brushing Cuba, Gustav is presently a CAT 3 storm and will definitely regroup back into a CAT 4, if not CAT 5 before making landfall. The projected "Ground Zero" region by the National Hurricane Prediction Center? Louisiana. The reason that it is not a complete replay of the Katrina disaster is that this time the state officials are not taking chances. With images of floating bodies, burning homes and mass confusion still vivid in their memories, officials are sounding the alarm early. The CNN website's frontpage headline reads "Get your butts moving!" That quote, in context, is from Mayor Ron Nagin who was the mayor when Katrina rolled through. His exact words were, "You need to be scared. You need to be concerned, and you need to get your butts moving out of New Orleans right now. This is the storm of the century." I would like to suggest that Nagin's got it right this time. Having worked ...

Bathisms?  Seriously? Well, yes.  The core concept for the name “Think Depth” comes from my understanding of Luke 6:46-49.  This is Luke’s account of the famous parable where the two men build houses but upon different foundations.  One built his upon rock, the other upon sand.  Or at least that was how the Sunday School rhyme I learned as a kid taught me the story. Thanks to flannelgraph theology, I always pictured the story alongside a main coastline which is a micture of sandy beaches and rocky outcrops.  Thus, one house was up on the rocks and the other was down on the beach.  The fact that the man would actually build a house down on a beach was a ludicrous notion which even at the age of 7 I understood.  After all, I had done my share of sandcastle building at that age. When you study the passage, though, you find that this is not the reality of the story.  In fact, the two men probably are building their houses right next to each other on the exact same type of ground.  The difference, acording to Luke is that one man takes the time to “dig down deep” and find bedrock before ...