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Okay, this is getting out of hand. Getting absolutely ridiculous. The contest guidelines weren’t laid out well enough in the last post. Here’s how it goes. Anyone and everyone signs up for the Isreal drawing either over the internet or entering manually. Drawings happen on the air. Names get called and that person has 60 minutes to call in to win. As you well know, Heather and I won that contest. But that happens several times and each person who wins gets put into a smaller drawing. When the winner of the second drawing gets announced, the winner goes to the NATIONAL drawing for the grand prize. Are you understanding? The second drawing was this morning. And wouldn’t you know it… we… won… again! I mean, we really won! I was listening to the radio again and I just couldn’t believe that they called our names again. So we won a 4 DVD set about Isreal by Focus on the Family. Now, get this. We are in the national drawing to win the free trip to Isreal! Listen to our odds. 1:10. We have a 1 in 10 chance to win a trip to Isreal with the president of Moody himself. So, here is what you can do (if you are at all interested): listen on Thursday to any moody affiliate that you have in your area. Sometime on Thursday, they’ll be announcing the winner! Uh… that MIGHT be us! Odds are good! Let’s see, I’ve won tickets to an IMAX theater but NEVER anything this big. I’m telling you… it’s my wife! I never won anything before I met her!
The title should say “We MIGHT be going to Israel!” but that wouldn’t have drawn you in like the current title. Here’s the dealio: Heather (my wonderful, wonderful wife) signed us up on the Moody Radio website to win a trip for two to Israel. Once a person enters the contest (only one entry per household), you begin listening for your name! If you win the first stage and are mentioned on the radio, then you have 60 minutes to call in. Once you do that, you win some books and get entered into a smaller drawing for the big tamale. 
I mean, how cool would it be to be able to visit our friends Sara and Remi… for free!.jpg "Israel")
bring such a vitality to reading about geography in the Bible after having “been there.” Don’t you think? A big group from our church (Calvary Chapel) went to Israel a couple of years ago. They had a guide, and it was a sightseeing trip less than a “mission trip.” They came back with pictures of the Garden of Gethsemane, individuals floating like rafts in the Dead Sea, etc. I remember SO wishing we could go then, but of course there were a hundred pragmatic reasons we could not (i.e., the expense, the time off work, responsibilities). 
Of course, it has its good sides and bad sides. The good is upgrades, of course. Everyone will be using the same version everywhere because all the upgrades will be handled from whomever maintains the online software. Another good thing is that you can grab your documents and edit them anywhere you can get on the internet. The bad things is that if your internet is down… no worky (unless you can somehow use a off-line version somehow). That and it gives less control to the user. I think it’s a pretty neat idea when all the kinks get worked out but for right now. Go to
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