Something always puzzles me about the credit card scanners at our local Wal Mart. In fact I’m not even sure if that’s the correct term for them, but for the purpose of this post, it will suffice. What always gets me is that the scanner knows when you’ve swiped a debit card, and it proceeds ...

Danielle and I were reading through the story of Moses the other night, and a couple of things really stuck out to me that I either hadn’t read before or just never really noticed. 1.) Moses changed the course of history. You might say, “well yeah, Jared, we know that.” I’m not talking about the ...

Here are a couple of shots that Danielle snapped this weekend of our Patriot.

Danielle recently wrote about the latest addition to our family – our 2008 Jeep Patriot. Here’s how it came to be a part of our family. Danielle used to drive a white 1994 Ford Explorer, that, while it served her well, was definitely on its last legs. A few months ago it began making weird ...

As a shameless plug, check out Barden Photgraphy when you get a chance.Danielle and I started the site a couple of weeks ago.At first, I struggled to find good photo gallery software that wasn’t hard to install. At my previous job we had installed Gallery for a client, but it was a giant pain, since ...

During lunch today, I stumbled upon some news that a seal from the original temple in Jerusalem was found recently. The article mentions a family of temple servants by the name of Temech, who were also mention in the book of Nehemiah in the Bible. Very cool to see actual scientific evidence that lines up ...

Continue reading for a summary of the 2007 Barden Family Christmas. Christmas started a little early for me this year, since our company closed around 3PM on Christmas Eve. In keeping with Barden family tradition, we had pizza with my parents for our Christmas Eve dinner. After dinner we made our way to the church ...

Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on why anyone would be telling, “scary ghost stories” at Christmas time? I was listening to The Most Wonderful Time of the Year today, and that thought struck me. Any thoughts?

Today I got a surprise invitation to lunch with an old friend. It was nice to just “shoot the breeze” for a while at Subway and forget about all the things that have been causing me worry over the last few weeks. Worry is a funny thing. And I don’t mean funny, “ha ha.”  The ...