I’m fired up about preaching on Sunday (Dr. Porter is Out). Got our taxes filed this week. Glad that’s over. Took a day of vacation and went hunting here. I had a blast. Sick kids, but hopefully we’re turning the corner. We’ve had 34 views on www.housesale911.com! It goes in the paper today. Ally has [...]
Archive for February, 2008
. . . . . . . . . . . Matt 14:22-33 (NIV) Matthew 14:22-33 : Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to [...]
The picture says it all. If I don’t’ get it done before they get up, It’s not going to happen. . . .
The big news I referred to earlier this week is final here! Our house goes on the market today. We’d love to build a house on the lot next to us and after seeking some wise counsel it became clear that we needed to sell this one first (not try to build while still here). [...]
We’re studying Prayer Does it make any Difference on Sunday mornings (check out www.lifechange4us.org). One of Philip Yancey’s quotes from the book reads, “In prayer we should lay before God what is in us, not what out to be in us.” In other words when we pray we shouldn’t pretend to be righteous and that [...]
I’ve got Dierks latest album in my CD player and lovin’ it. “Free and Easy Down the Road I Go” Don’t forget about the Bone Marrow Drive for Jason Weathers on Wednesday at Temple for 10am-7pm. Find out the latest on Jason here. These guys are in concert for a D-now this Saturday night in [...]
I gave myself a Wii Zapper for Valentine’s Day and it is so cool! (Yes, I guess I love myself but I did get JJ some nice flowers as well). It’s simply a plastic case that you snap in the Wii Remote and Nun-Chuck attachment. The weight of the zapper and the rumble pack and speekers [...]
Here some things that I ran across that maybe of interest to you. There is something her for everyone. For the person giving up on their new year’s resolution to exercise go here. For an interesting discussion of defining terms within the church go here. On how to shop for a budget Valentines Gift go [...]
In 2 Kings 5, Naaman was challenged to obey God (through the prophet Elisha) by simply washing himself in the Jordan River 7 times in order for his leprosy to be healed. The problem is that Naaman had “Already tried that.” Thankfully he has some close friends that challenged him on this. Here are their [...]
We took the kids fishing at David and Carolyn Bobinger’s house on Saturday. I meet David in 1995 when I started to work for MPC. He had the cube with the view facing the Gulf. Dave would always stare out across his cup of coffee, looking out at the ocean and he would act as [...]
