VACATION PHOTOS!

I told you!

We had a blast, it was a great vacation.

VACATION!

Jenny and I are leaving this afternoon for So-Cal. We will be spending a few days in the LA area with her grandparents then headed down to Pt. Loma in San Diego, we are going to stay in the alumni house at PLNU. We got some Padres tickets and are hoping to visit the Zoo and maybe Sea World, well see. Mostly Jenny is going to show me her old "hood".

I'll have pictures for you all when I return!

Irony at its best, hypocisy at its worset.

'Left Behind' Authors Blast End-Times Mini-Series as 'Unbiblical, Weird'

Read The Article

some choice quotes:

Jerry Jenkins, novelist of the "Left Behind" series, which has sold 62 million copies since its debut in 1995, said "Revelations" is "a mishmash of myth, silliness, and misrepresentations of Scripture."

"'Revelations seems to draw from everywhere and nowhere," said Jenkins.

Two new Derek Webb songs!

I am guessing these will be on his new live dvd coming out this summer. Again he seems to have opened up my skull and come inside my head and efectivly said in song what I have a hard time saying in words. Thank you Derek for kicking my arse.


A King and a Kingdom:

Who’s your brother, who’s your sister
You’ll just walk past him, think you missed her
As we’re all migrating to a place where our Father lives
Cause we married into a family of immigrants

So my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country or a man
My first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
It’s to a King and a Kingdom

There are two great lies that I’ve heard
The day you eat of the fruit of that tree you will not surely die
And that Jesus Christ was white, middle class, republican
And if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like him

Repeat chorus

And nothing unifies like a common enemy
And we’ve got one sure as hell
He may be living in your house
He may be raising up your kids
He may be sleeping with your wife
Or he may not look like you think
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Rich Young Ruler:

Poverty
Is so hard to see
When it’s only on your TV
Or 20 miles across town

Where we’re all living so good
We moved out of Jesus’ neighborhood
Where He’s hungry and not feeling so good
For going through our trash

He says “More than just your cash and coin
I want your time, I want your voice
I want the things you just can’t give me”

“So what must we do
Here in the west we want to follow you
We speak the language and keep all the rules
Even a few that we made up”

“So come and follow me
Sell your house, sell your SUV
Sell your stocks, sell your security
Give it to the poor”

“What is this, hey what’s the deal
I don’t sleep around and I don’t steal
I want the things you just can’t give me
I want the things you just can’t give me”

“Cuz what you do to the least of these
My brothers you have done it to me
Cuz I want the things you just can’t give me
I want the things you just can’t give me”

You've created nothing that gives me more pleasure then you.

David spent almost all of his young life in the fields, saturated by God’s majestic creation, yet he never let it overtake the gladness he found in fellowship with Him. So often I find myself manufacturing contentment with the petty things that I am meant to forsake. I believe that if I were to throw myself toward the minute-by-minute confrontation of the gospel, as David did, I would discover that God did not put anything among, around or inside of me that achieves even a loose definition of satisfaction when compared to God and the beauty of His grace. I truly desire to have an understanding of God’s presence and mercy that compels me to supernatural joy, but for now, I still seem to be obsessing with the things that God gives me, instead of His presence alone.
--Joshua Moore

New Website Launched by CainesDesign

I launched a website I have been working on as a freelance project last night at like 12:30. I am pretty dead tired today, but here it is:

G-17.com

I use to crew for these guys in High School, my dad was the Crew Chief back then.

Eugene Peterson Interview

The Article

How do we know when they have moved from merely adapting ministry to the culture to sacrificing the gospel?

One test I think is this: Am I working out of the Jesus story, the Jesus methods, the Jesus way? Am I sacrificing relationship, personal attention, personal relationship for a shortcut, a program so I can get stuff done? You can't do Jesus' work in a non-Jesus way and get by with it—although you can be very "successful."

Fantasy Baseball

Well, I drafted my team the other day for the CircleSix Fantasy Baseball League. Here is who I got:

Batters
C - V. Martinez (Cle - C) 
1B - C. Delgado (Fla - 1B) 
2B - L. Castillo (Fla - 2B)
3B - M. Mora (Bal - 3B)
SS - C. Guillen (Det - SS) 
OF - C. Beltran (NYM - OF) 
OF - V. Wells (Tor - OF)
OF - C. Lee (Mil - OF) 
Util - D. Wright (NYM - 3B)
BN - J. Bay (Pit - OF)
BN - J. Estrada (Atl - C)
BN - J. Guillen (Was - OF)

Pitchers
P - J. Santana (Min - P)
P - B. Lidge (Hou - P)
P - J. Peavy (SD - P) 
P - Ol. Perez (Pit - P) 
P - E. Guardado (Sea - P) 
BN - Od. Perez (LAD - P) 
BN - D. Baez (TB - P)

Looks like it could be a big season, or could be a weak one, we'll see. I am counting on a lot of young guys to have break out seasons, could be risky.

the funny

These is the funny.

Lent

Well, its Ash Wednesday, and I know what I am going to give up for lent.

This year I am giving up criticism; this is something I have struggled with a lot my whole life, I think my own criticisms distract me from God, and mostly from living Christ like.

Teen Group

Jenny and I are starting a teen group at our new church, as we are really the only people withing 20 years of the age of the teens. It should be fun, but a lot of work. There are about 5 teens that we know of so far, so we have a lot of work to do. Pray for us, our first group is next sunday evening. We are going to watch Napolian Dynomite, what better way to kick off a youth group?

Garden State

Jenny and I rented this last weekend. Great movie if you can get through the first few scenes. The first few scenes he is getting reacquainted with his high school friends and they are a bunch of stoners, but it is well worth it to hold out because the rest of the movie is great. I love these newer "romantic comedies" (Eternal Sunshine…) were the relationships have the weirdness and quarks of real life, not the fake sappiness of most movies labeled "romantic comedies".

So, see it if you haven't! Great soundtrack too!

The unrest in my soul.

I have been thinking, and reading a lot lately, I have gotten back into the bible on a daily bases again and its wonderful, but painful. I just wanted to share some of the things I have been struggling with.

I am begining to feel unrest in my soul, I want more, I want to want less. I want to be completely sold out to Christ I want to hold nothing back from Him and what He has for me to do on Earth. I am tired of holding things back from God, I am sick of justifying away my sins. I want to do all these things for Him instead of making myself look better. Who am I to think I deserve anything? What makes me think that I should be able to have a new car, or buy a house, or an iPod or a new computer? Who am I to think God needs to bless me with more then eternal salvation and a life with Him?

I rejoice that I am finally feeling unrest with my complacency; I pray that my unrest doesn't end. I feel guilty, prideful, arrogant, ignorant, angry, scared, and completely loved. Now comes the hard part, changing. Anyone want to join me? Atleast pray for me to be completly Christ centered, I want to have the faith that says "leave everything and follow me".

No Snow Yet!

I have been waiting for snow for the last two weeks, the weather man is a tease!

I found this to hold me over thoguht.
FUN IN THE SNOW!

Top 10 Movies of 2004

Note: some of these came out in theaters in 2003, but on DVD in 2004, and I saw all of them in 2004.

1. Napoleon Dynamite
2. The Passion of the Christ
3. Big Fish (2003)
4. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
5. The Motorcycle Diaries
6. Saved!
7. The Terminal
8. Secondhand Lions (2003)
9. The Station Agent (2003)
10. Miracle

Here are some movies I really want to see that were released in 2004:
The Aviator
Ocean's Twelve
Meet The Fockers
Life Aquatic

Prayer Request

Mitchell Hollis attended the young adults bible study my wife and I attened. I did not know him well, he had been only a few times, but he had been atteneding the church and a small group that some of my close friends are in.

News Article

Please pray for his family, he was working on getting back together with his wife, pray especialy for her and their kids. Thanks.

All I Want For Christmas is....

From my wonderful wife:
1 Year subscrition to PRINT Magazine
Corn Cob Pipe (the bent one)
Some fine tobacco selections
Boxers
and some other random stocking stuffers

From my mom and dad:
Cordless Drill

From my in-laws:
Air purifier (for Jenny and I from her mom and dad)
Tools and a tool box (from her brother, who drew my name)

Top 10 Albums of 2004

1. U2 - How To Dismantel An Atomic Bomb
2. Derek Webb - I See Things Upside Down
3. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
4. The Cure - The Cure
5. Mutemath - Reset
6. Indigo Girls - All That We Let In
7. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
8. Pedro The Lion - Achilles Heal
9. Carbon Leaf - Indian Summer
10.Caedmon's Call - Share The Well

Andrew Peterson - Behold The Lamb of God gets mad props too, but its seasonal, so i am not sure if I can add it to my list.

pa-pha-doink!

That was for you Hill.

Congrats on the MFA dagree!

Here is the thing....

I have been busy and lazy, mostly busy, but partly lazy, so I have nothing new to say, but Hi, and I will come up with somthing witty someday, don't hold your breathe.

As for my review of the last few tracks of the U2 album, I love them, you will too, go buy it!

Thats all.