i no longer live here.

i've moved to a new site.

find me here, where love wins!

a funny

calvin is my hero!

great song from a new cd

"as far as the east is from the west" ... do you forget that promise given to us? i do. do you have a graveyard of dug up "sin" graves? in other words, do you have the problem i do with digging sins back up after God has forgiven you? i do.

is it because we forget that God has already forgotten what we have done? ... or is it that we think that the sin is way to terrible for Him to forgive? hey, He died for your sins!! isn't that big enough? then why do we keep doing it? one day we will know.

my wife came home with a surprise for me today. she bought me the new casting crowns cd, the altar and the door. i also got a free t-shirt with it ... like i need another t-shirt, but i'm not complaining!!

she is so sweet to me. check out this video of east to west

Here I am Lord and I’m drowning, in Your sea of forgetfulness
The chains of yesterday surround me, I yearn for peace and rest
I don’t want to end up where You found me
And it echoes in my mind
Keeps me awake tonight
I know you’ve cast my sin as far as the East is from the West
And I stand before You now as though I’ve never sinned
But today I feel like I’m just one mistake away
From You leaving me this way

Chorus:
Jesus can you show me just how far the east is from the west
‘Cause I can’t bear to see the man I’ve been
Rising up in me again
In the arms of Your mercy I find rest
‘Cause You know just how far the east is from the west
From one scarred hand to the other

I start the day, the war begins
Endless reminding of my sin
And time and time again
Your truth is drowned out by the storm I’m in
Today I feel like I’m just one mistake away
from You leaving me this way

Chorus:

I know You’ve washed me white
Turn my darkness into life
I need Your peace to get me through
To get me through this night
I can’t live by what I feel
About the truth Your word reveals
I’m not holding on to You
But You’re holding on to me
You’re holding on to me

Chorus:
...

stream 2008 is coming!

you've heard me talk about it before ... well the '08 edition of stream franklin is on its way!

mark your calendars for the weekend of january 25 - 27, 2008!

mike cope will be the featured speaker, and bruce marchiano will be speaking as well. if you have ever seen the matthew videos, or the gospel according to john videos then you have have seen bruce. bruce was the actor that portrayed Jesus. if you never thought of Jesus smiling ... then you better get ready!

i am so excited! check out the links i have added to this post, and keep watch with the countdown widget on the right.

later!

what i did last week

well, last week was fun. my work week was only two days long. can't beat that!

wednesday i headed to the ocoee river as part of a group of 9 rafters. there 3 adults and 6 kids. i think there were 2 experienced rafters. (if you call one trip down a river 3 years ago experience) needless to say it was my first time. it was a blast! i'd go again!

i was one of the lucky ones to have an air matress, sleeping bag, and tent to myself. i think the tent was a three man tent. it would be cramped in there, and i think they would have to be munchkins. one of the best things is that i didn't have to air the mattress up but once. there were no leaks!

the weather was nice. the first night was kinda warm until about 4:00 am. the second day was fun. our boating run was at 2:00 pm and after that i was bout ready for the bed.

the rapids that we did were class 3 and 4. our guide said, "... and you pick this class to start?!?!" she laughed at us, but she was really nice to us. she coulda tipped us a few times.

i was in a boat with all women ... just like the house i live in ... my lot in life. the guide was lady, and i had 4 freshmen/sophomores in the boat, too. it was a blast! since the girls were afraid to "ride the bull" on the raft (sit on the very front of the boat and hold the tow strap on the bow of the boat, here's joey our youth minister) i was elected to ride the bull. i fell back first time so i was "without a paddle" (insert laughing here for attempt at a pun), and then at the end of the rapids i got an opportunity to redeem myself, and i did. at least until the very final rapid, hell's hole, and then the writer of this post became the only one of the expedition to go overboard. it was funner out of the boat ... kinda. with the exception of the water in the lungs. i got go down the very final little bit of the rapids "whitewater swim style." that's with your nose and toes exposed.

if you ever get the chance to go up into tennessee i recommend you go to adventures unlimited and let them guide you down the ocoee. it was a blast!

do you know who's birthday it is?

its his, and hers. read about it here.

have y'all seen any pics of people after they have been simpsonized? here is a simpsonized pic that the site made of me when i used a pic of myself taken at the pool of my wife's best friend. what do you think?

it took me about a day and a half to get it finalized. i think about half of the u.s. were trying to simpsonize themselves along with me. it was really slow, and painstaking.

i guess you can see that i have used this version of me as my profile pic. i think it is pretty cool. i reminds me of a shirt that i just about wore thread bare when i was dating my wife. she still has it, and she plans to use it in a quilt in the future.

who is this? pt 2

here is more of the pic that i cropped in my last post. it is a pic of david beckham in his first match with his new side, mls' la galaxy. david previously had played for real madrid, and after his contract he wanted to bring his kids to disney land. well, he has created a circus in the process. in the last post i asked if you could recognize who the person was in partial pic. i had cut off part of david's head to see if anyone could recognize the torso down of him.
david was not able to play as well as he wanted to in his initial match due to his recovering from an ankle injury ... if you have ever injured an ankle you know that they don't heal in a week. also in his first match he was playing the team that has the england's side team captain on it. david previously was the team captain for the national team of england. it just so happened that terry scored the only goal for fc chelsea, and it happened to be the game winner.

below is a pic of david and his bride, victoria.

who is this?

wake up call

i feel a little embarrassed to admit this ... what i read today on the nooma site for rob bell's videos. also, because i am about to do a series of classes that are against the way i still kinda feel about where i am.

this is what i read:

How much time and energy do we spend wishing things were how they used to be? We often think about times in our past when things were different and want our lives to be like that again. Some of us have even come to believe that our best days may actually be behind us. But if we’re in some way hung up on the past, what does that mean for our lives now? How are we and those around us affected if we’re not fully present? If we’re longing for the way things used to be, what does that really say about our understanding and appreciation of our lives today? Maybe we need to learn to embrace our past for what it is, in order to live our lives to the fullest, right here, right now.

i am guilty of what that caption speaks about. the film may be about something different, but i have longed to be back in texas for almost 4 years now. i think if i moved back there i could get back in the swing of some things, but it wouldn't be "like it used to be" now would it? people change.

also, i am guilty of not appreciating what God has done for me and my family right here, right now. i am guilty of not rejoicing fully in today. that is bad in so many ways. for one reason it is bad because i am about to start a discussion class on how "everyday deserves a chance" based on the book by max lucado. how is going to look if i don't truly apply myself to what i am talking about? how would that look if i were found to be feeling totally opposite to what we are going to be discussing? maybe, its what i need to really start rejoicing in each day, and giving it what it deserves.

are you having trouble with this, too? or am i the only one?

no title needed ...

i wanted to put this video on my blog, but they have requested that embedding be disabled, so i can only give you this link. go to it and enjoy it. there are verses that you may not recognize on there ... but they are good!

here is mr. newton's original version:

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That sav’d a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev’d;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ’d!

Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promis’d good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease;
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call’d me here below,
Will be forever mine.

John New­ton, Ol­ney Hymns (Lon­don: W. Ol­i­ver, 1779)

you may also notice that there may be a verse left out. there is a verse that most of us grew up singing ... well that verse was taken from a book that has been removed from the shelves of many book stores. the verse was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe who most of you know wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

here is that verse that has since been added to most hymnals of today:

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’ve first begun.

i don't know what made me want to write this post today ... maybe it was just something that stirred in me after reading keith lancaster's post, and seeing the video by wintley phipps' rendition.

i hope you have enjoyed this song in the past, and i hope that the words of this song, and some of the verses you have read have given you a new appreciation of the grace that has been given to us.

cosby clips

i hope you like these i laughed with my family growing up to this so many times. i think the last one here is the best. which one do you like?

if you missed it ... like i did

if you, like me, missed the tulsa workshop, you can listen to a lot of the speakers at iTunes. wade hodges has placed them there, and i thank him. i am sitting here in my hotel room listening to randy harris ... you've heard that name here before, haven't you?

why do we connect with certain speakers? is it their sense of humor that you relate to? is it the language/jargon that they use that you relate to? or is it the Message/Messenger that we relate to?

i think the answer is "yes" to all of those, but especially that last one.

i wish i could've been there in person, but life sometimes gets in the way of our wishes, and there are needs that we have to attend to. i have heard great, great things about the workshop from a multitude of people. i have also talked about attending the different stream events in midland and now in franklin.

why do i like them? i think it is the praise services, and being with so many others that are thinking similar thoughts as mine. is that wrong? is that selfish? maybe, but we all need to charge our batteries, but we need to discharge our batteries on those around us.

i want you to read the top of this page again, and remember the 3rd and 4th comment that randy is saying. may God bless each of the two of you that have come and read this. may you be Christ so much that people will think you are strange, and may you see Him in all of those around you.

mls, new jersey, and soccer in general

with the fortune of being in the d.c. area for two weeks, i am getting the opportunity to see d.c. united take on colorado rapids thursday night next week. unfortunately i will have to drive back to l.a. on friday. however, the good part about driving back on friday is that i will get to see my two ladies again! WOO HOO!!

have you seen the new jersey that the wnt will be wearing at the 2008 world cup in china? i'm not suer i like it. since when have we been this showy? yes, we are the best IMO, but we don't need to rub it in people's faces.

i love soccer. i played it from my 6th grade year all the way to my senior year in high school. it was so cool to be on the first team in the school's existence on my junior year, and then make it to the semifinals of the state the next year (senior year). i got two letters for playing, and my daughter passed me this year with her 3rd letter. she is awesome. she even has goals to show for her skills. she was given a great compliment by one of her team mates this past year. she would come off of the bench because she is not a burner in speed, but she can find the back of net about 99.9% of the time from the pk mark. she was told by that team mate that she was the best pk taker of the team. i had to pick my jaw up off the ground after hearing that. i was sssoooo proud for her.

well, i'm sorry for not posting lately, but i have been busy. i one good thing to end on is that i will get the pleasure and opportunity to lead the discussion of the adult class this fall. pray for me to get-r-dun. i will be using the book from the previous post. have you read it yet? well you better get started!

need a book to read?

well i just finished this little easy read by max lucado called 'every day deserves a chance' and it is nice book. i was in the book store ... and i don't think i go as often as donna does and i found this book. i was really looking for a book by john mark hicks about communion. i think the name of the book is 'come to the table' and the store i was in did not carry it, but they would be happy to order it for me. do any of y'all have it and i could borrow it?

anyway, i thought i might do a class on this book by max, if hank can fit me in. it just some good stuff in it. nothing really comes to mind except the story about the mountain climber dumping his time on the peak of mt everest to save another climber that was crazed out of his gord with o2 deprivation.

well, get the book and enjoy it as much as i did.

back in 'sweet home alabama'

well, we're back home after an awesome week and weekend! it all started on friday when we went to ... i hate to even admit this ... auburn. ugh!! this shows how much i love my daughter. we toured the campus and saw some of the town. the town would not be what it is without the university.

after that was over we went to my older brother's house and stayed 2 nights and day with him and his family, along with having a lunch with my parents.

then we met up with another couple from port city to birmingham. we went to crossbridge for service, and got to see wendi and dubb and their kids ... what a great family!

then we went to lunch and then on to the cedars of lebanon state park in lebanon, tn. after a week of lounging and trail walking and frisbee golf and a lot of eating we went into nashvegas for some site seeing.

we went to the country music hall of fame, saw rocket town cafe (michael w. smith's cafe) by accident, and sun recording studios. then we went to cooter's place. y'all remember cooter from dukes of hazard, right? then we went back to the cabin for the evening.


then on friday we went to lipscomb for a visit. that was cool. they were so nice there. unlike auburn, lipscomb really doesn't have that much to say if nashville succeeds or fails. that is to say if lipscomb closed, nashville would continue without much of an impact, but i don't think you could say that about auburn.

after the visit we checked into our hotel for the weekend, and met up with our fellow members of port city and went to 4th avenue church of Christ for the first evening of 'stream franklin'. let me say that i have been touting this conference with anyone who would listen to me at church, and steve made me feel good when when we were walking back to the car after the service and he said, "ken, this has already exceeded my expectations!"

the whole weekend was like that ... as God is immeasurable, He exceeds our expectations. what a great time of fellowship and praising God for a whole week to get away and think about Him and what He has done for us.

check in later to see more about next year's installment. they think it will be around january 2008. please consider this for yourselves, y'all.

greetings from franklin!

i'm with my family and 4 other members from my home congregation, and about ... oh, i'd say maybe 500 more (that's a conservative guess) of our brothers and sisters in the faith here at stream franklin. this is the 2nd event of stream franklin, and i sincerely hope that it continues.

one of my friends that is here with us made a terrific comment. see i had been touting how much we had enjoyed stream in the desert when we were in texas. i was concerned that with this being 2nd year of stream franklin that it may not be like what i had been talking about, but he surprised me and said, "ken, this has already surpassed my expectations." what a relief!! i told him, "but this is only the first night!"

oh what i hope jeff walling does shares with us today will continue to remind us of how we can not really understand what we need to. does that make sense?

jeff reminded us of how where ever we are is holy ground, and God is there with us. jeff shared with us that sometimes people are talking about how great a service was, or when they were doing a service project or studying with a friend that it was so good that God showed up. isn't that funny? God showed up. isn't He right here ... right now? we just need to remember and notice that.

let me just say that i am having an awesome time here so far. it all started with a week in the woods with my family and another family. we were at the cedars of lebanon state park in ... you guessed it ... lebanon, tn. then we went to lipscomb university for a visit with them for a possibility for my daughter to go to in a year or so. i still can not imagine that my daughter is about to graduate from high school ... there is still another year yet, but i still can not believe it.

it was a great visit. we also went to the country music hall of fame. cool place!

well, i need to get off of here and get ready for the next session. thanks for reading trey!! this is for you trey, but you can still keep singing about being a rich man. you are a rich man with your family; wife and kids, but you already know that. thanks for visiting.

a song from one of my favorite movies

have you seen fiddle on the roof? if not, you are missing one of the best movies.

here's another one that we laugh and sing when we watch the movie:

girls! this one is for you ...

there is this woman with an amazing heart for God that came to speak the girls and 'girls at heart' a couple of weeks ago. she is one of the daughters of one of our members at port city, and a daughter of the Father, as well. wendi is her name, and she will gladly share her story with you. i'm not a girl, so i wasn't there, but my wife and daughter loved her talks!!

wendi is a teacher, a mother, a wife, a sister, and like i mentioned before a daughter. her family is awesome, (i have personal experience in knowing them) and they live in the birmingham area.

she didn't ask me to do this, by the way, but she is willing to come to your church and speak to your girls, too. just go to the link here, and set up a time, and place ... you will not regret it! her blog has some of the things she talks about, and testimonials, and info on how to reach her. check it out, girls!

its finally here

well its Good Friday. a lot of thought goes into what is "good" about this friday compared to the other 51 in the year. why is the day that our Savior's murder considered good? ... i guess its because of our Savior's sacrifice we have our chance to be with Him when we finally go home to be with Him ... its a good thing.



i have been without my dr pepper now for 37 days. i'm looking forward to sunday. i'm looking forward to sunday, not because i get to have my dr pepper, but because i will be with my family remembering that it was a sunday more than 2000 years ago when my Savior rose from the dead, and defeated death, and satan for good! i will be having a dr pepper for breakfast, though.



how have you done this lenten season? i have had days that i so wish i had a dr pepper. days that i was dragging, and needed that extra umph. can you imagine going 40 days without food or water, and then being tempted to make a meal out of the rocks that surround you. the rocks that are there with your every step?



i have nothing to complain about, but i rejoice in what my Savior has done for me!

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microphysists might like this one

ok, who can tell me what this is? and who can tell me what it is a shape of? can you guess what it reminds me of?

alright i'll tell you. it is a diagram of a laminin molecule. now you're probably asking the question, "what is laminin?" well, from what i learned tonight at the chris tomlin concert, it is a protein molecule that is used to keep molecules stuck together. its the glue in our bodies.

the shape reminds me of a cross. the diagram also reminds me of the trinity. notice how it is made up of three things ... kinda like the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit?

this is a rather simple thing, but look at this passage about Jesus:

He existed before everything else began, and he holds all creation together.
Col 1:17

isn't that neat? i know simple things for simple minds. i really thought it was awesome to sing with thousands of other like minded people. chris is so talented ... its ... indescribable.

a smack upside the head

i was reading a devo that i get e-mailed to me by max lucado. in this devo it talks about Jesus washing the feet of His disciples. i was getting the gist of the whole thing and then ... then max asked two questions and they smacked me upside the head. basically saying, "are you doing this?" here's what he said:

Do we object because we don’t want to see God washing feet?

Or do we object because we don’t want to do the same?

do any of these questions apply to you? what got my attention is that i'm not sure that the second one doesn't apply to me. i mean we're supposed to use Jesus as our Example. we hear that said all the time, but do we have a problem with all that He did? even to those that hate us, and want to kill us?

what's in a song?

i hadn't heard anything about this movie until i read mike cope's blog this morning. have you heard anything about it? i think i want to take my family to see it. check out the trailer here.

do you recognize this man?

do you recognize who this man is supposed to be, or who he is supposed to look like? last year there was a show on the discovery channel, i think, that did a special on what they think Jesus could have looked like. the picture seen here is what the 'experts' derived from what they believe a 'regular' jewish man looked like in Jesus' time.

i guess all of us have seen how there are people who can take a skull and they add clay to it to make it look like what they think the person looked like based on the shape of the bone structure of the skull. have you heard of this? well, they looked at skulls of known jews in that time period, and with the help of the 'claymation' people they constructed what they think they looked like. they think they looked a certain way since they didn't have cameras back then.

however, if you look at what they think Jesus looked like, with the larger crown size that the jews had at that time, He doesn't look like the shroud that they have of what they think might have been his death shroud.

with all this said ... "have you seen Jesus my Lord ... He's here in plain view?" do you see Jesus in people around you? more importantly, do people see Jesus in you? i have my bad days, but i try my best to show Jesus to all the people i see.

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How Great Is Our God Concert

well i just got back from the mitchell center for the tickets to see chris tomlin on march 14. some may say, "shame on you for not going to church on a wednesday night." my answer would be, "i can worship there. i'm sure that there will be worshipping going on there."get yours and we can go together.

have a great day!

just sittin' here

hello again, i haven't posted this much in quite some time. i don't even know if anyone is reading this stuff.

well, i have been reading velvet elvis again. rob has a way of saying things that we have heard before and they sound like they make more sense when he says them. do you have someone like that? someone that says things that you have heard all your life and when they say them they sound like its the first time you have ever heard them?

while reading movement 3 (that would be like chapter 3 in any other book) rob is talking about a time when he and his kids and the neighbor guy and his kids are out in the yard seeing who can sled down the hill ... its september when they are doing this, and people are driving by and looking at them like they are insane. this made me remember when i was growing up in panama, and we used to use cardboard boxes as sleds, and slid down grassy hills. that was so much fun! is was even funner when someone had gotten a new refridgerator, and we would see how many of us could fit on the box going down hill, or families had just moved in, we would use their wardrobe boxes. man! that was so much fun!

i guess i am hooked on rob. i got two series of rob's sermons that i have down loaded and put on my podomatic site. if you want to go there and download them and listen ... i would highly recommend the one on community. if you go to my podomatic site, you will find other things there. among them is a series of randy harris' ... oh gasp! another one of my favorite guys to listen to. i hope you enjoy them too. if you have read the top of this page you will see the mantras of randy. the sermon that he talked about those is there. he also does a lesson on the Lord's prayer. that one was so good to me i played it over and over until i had it written out and i have it laminated in my wallet, and was one of my post awhile back.

i don't know what got me to want to write this post but i just wanted to share this with you. have a great day.

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stream franklin!

if you have never been to stream franklin (well there has only been one), or stream midland, then you have missed an awesome weekend of spiritual renewal. go to the site and see what there is to offer, and if you have any questions just leave a comment.

here is what is in store:

Friday Evening, April 20
5:00 - 7:00 Registration
7:00 - 9:30 Session I

Saturday, April 21
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 11:45 Session II
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break (local choices)
2:00 - 4:30 Session III
5:30 Dinner (local choices)
7:30 - 9:00 Echoes Praise Concert

Sunday, April 22
8:15 & 10:30 Morning Assemblies
Session IV

i strongly encourage you to go. i am going!

i have been tagged

and if you are reading this ... standby because you will be tagged soon, too. (sorry donna, but i think you are the only one that qualifies that statement. just a heads up.)

this venture of taggedness (i just made that up) requires one to spill his/her guts on 5 things that others will probably not know about the author. i am adding onto to the original task by stating that you need to post your results in a comment of the person that tagged you, as well as making a new post on your site. well ... here goes:

1. i'm thinking ... still thinking, hold on ... when it comes to playing board games and such i like to know all the rules before we begin. this is an annoyance to those that i play with, because i will call them on the rules during the game, and they sometimes just stop playing right there, or will never play with me again. i'm not rude about it, but hey ... rules are rules!

2. i used to be deathly afraid to read scripture, or pray in public. (i put that in there because now i love it!)

3. i was born in izmir, turkey. i had to be naturalized when i was 6 (i think?), and i chose the u.s. as the country i wanted to be a citizen of. go figure?

4. i claim alabama as my home state, but had never lived here until i was in my late 30's. also, like jd, i hate greens, but unlike what jd confessed i dislike tomatoes, any melon fruit, or tea (iced, hot, or sweet). i have been told that i am not a real southern.

5. my first car was a '78 ford fiesta. no forget that one. i need something better for my final and 5th thing ... hm ... hhhhmmmm ... i've lived in 12 different places in my life time, and i was baptized in balboa, panama, at balboa church of Christ when i was 11. (those 12 places are turkey, texas [first time], panama, south carolina [first time], illinois, tennessee [first time], florida, south carolina [second time], tennessee [second time], japan, texas [second time], and now alabama.)

now i get to pick 5 people to tag. this ought to be fun. the winners are:

danny simms
donna
greg
soren
my sister in-law

we'll see who actually follows through. this was really fun. it made me think of myself and how introverted i am ... HA!

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now i know ...

i am really not as young as i think i am. yesterday i went with my daughter and the rest of the daphne girls varsity soccer team to camp beckwith. it really was a great time. i am sore from climbing poles and trees, but what we got to do after we got up on those poles and trees was worth it.

have you ever ridden a zip line? i got to ride one yesterday. have you ever jumped off of the top of a telephone pole and grabbed a trapeze bar? i did, and now i am paying for it. i now know that i am not 18 yearsold anymore. my hips are killing me!

well, the girls really bonded well, and i hope they get to take home some good lessons on succeeding and relying on each other and communicating to get things done.

it all started with some group games, and then we got put our buffs, no we didn't go to fiji island for survivor, but we did get these yellow bandanas to wear. we used the buff to make a blindfold, and covered our eyes. we then grabbed the sholders of the person in front of us forming a train. our sherpa lead us by only the sound of his clapping hands. he lead us through treacherous ditches and narrow passes through trees. we finished at a rope trail, but we had to keep our blindfolds on.

at the ropes, we had to keep our left hand on the rope at all times. at times the rope seemed to disappear. that made us feel weird. did i mention we were not able to talk? that made the difficulty factor soar. imagine 14 teen girls not allowed to talk? that didn't happen, but they did ok. i mean it was an impossible challenge to ask them to be quiet for an extended period of time.

after all of the challenges we ended with a surf and turf dinner and a bonfire. the girls got their soccer stuff, and we called a night.

i am so sore.

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i can't believe that i didn't mention this sooner

if you are a reader of this blog you know that i am a fan, (not sure it that is the right word) if not a fan, then someone who agrees with randy harris. last year (sounds like so long ago, doesn't it?) i got to attend the "last hour" experience with about 250 teens. 12 of which were from port city. well we were in panama city, fl, and we got to learn about the temple. or should i say we got a refresher of how life was for the jews before the death of Jesus.



randy lead us in the theology of how things were and ... their names escape me ... these other guys lead us in singing. it was an awesome time to remember how great it is now to have Jesus as our high priest and we can go directly to God through Jesus whenever we want to. that's funny. i said whenever we want to. it would be better if i said 'need' to, because we need to all the time. where would i be without Him? ...



wow ... well, anyway. randy did a great job. he just makes things good and easy to understand and ... make sense. that's redundant.



well, friday to sunday i was with my daughter and 11 others. we cried, and hugged, and prayed, and ate, and sang, and laughed, and ... all together. what a great weekend. what a great way to start the year, huh?



then i just about ruined it by thinking poorly of someone. AARRGGHH!!! satan you know how to ruin things!!! a misunderstanding got blown way out of proportion. see i was on this high, and satan can't handle that, so he said, "take this!" and he just messed me up for my drive home. ...



can't wait to finally get HOME!! home with Jesus ... He's got a place picked out for me. custom designed, and just'a waitin'. can't wait to get there.

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how's it going?

wow, its been awhile, hasn't it? what have y'all been up to? you know as i write this, i can't even remember if this is my initial entry for the new year 2007.



well, let's just say it is. my year has been pretty hectic, but whose isn't? i had the joy of having all my family at my house for christmas this year. my parents, my grandmother on my mom's side, my two brothers, and one of their wives and their two girls. what a great time. they only stayed for one day, but that was great to be able to host all of them at my house for the first time in all my adult life my immediate family was in my house.



then the next day after they were here, my wife's family was in our house. all except her sister were here. so her mom, her two brothers, and their wives were here for christmas.



what an awesome time of fun and fellowship. we opened presents from each family, and then on christmas eve my wife got a present she wasn't expecting, or desiring. she got the flu. so on chirstmas morning she was on the couch as kristin and i handed her presents and we opened presents.



so for about 3 or 4 weeks my wife has been recovering from the christmas present she got, and we have been living day to day until now.



recently i have been trying to get our worship computer updated at the church. we are using mediashout instead of powerpoint now for about 2 years or so, and we received the upgrade from version 2.5 to version 3, but we have not been able to run v3 because all the os software had not been updated for the 2 years the computer has been on the sound booth. this is because we do not have an internet hook up in the sound booth. now don't get this wrong, i am not angry, but it is just a hassle to get the computer updated. when i hooked it up and was getting the updates it said that there 62 security updates that were needed to be installed. that is not including service pack 2.



so last night i got all the updates done, and service pack 2 started (i say started, because 2 and a half hours later i was headed out the door with it still installing the updates) and this morning i found out from the youth minster that all the updates had been installed. i had him restart the computer, and he did that, and there were no errors after the restart. so we will see sunday morning if the updates have thrown any wrenches into the works of the v2.5 script that we have put together for this sunday (which happens to be my daughter's b-day).



so that's the update of k2's 2k7 to date. how's your life going?

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i just read this and wanted to share it

this is what i read:

Read your blogs.
Post your comments.
Do your day.
But don't forget to pray.
In fact, I challenge you to stop right now and just pray.

Pray.

Climb up in Daddy's lap.
Approach your King.
Storm the Gates of Heaven.
Have a little talk with Jesus.
Meet with your Maker.

Just Pray.

joel is a preacher in texas and he has some cool, and awesome stuff to share and this one stuck out. you know we can't pray enough. we have been told that in the bible that we need to pray without ceasing. ever wonder what that really means? how can you pray while talking with your buddy ... how can you pray while eating ... while driving ... while listening to your child tell you about their day?

in my opinion i think we need to pray before we do stuff. we need to keep God involved with our lives. if we did that, how do you think our days would go? yeah, i think the same thing. pray that i can live this out. i'll pray for you.

hey! check iss out!

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