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at the beginning of june my ibook bit the dust. so i got a macbook and at the time when i bought my new macbook they had a promotion going on where if you are a student and you buy a macbook you get a free ipod (via rebate). so kimb and i got a 160gb ipod classic. when we went to do the rebate it said that we were not eligible for the rebate. so i talked with the apple rebate people and they proceeded to tell me that the ipod classic was not included with the promo.
so i went back to the apple store, returned our 160gb ipod classic and got this instead…
grace and peace.
our week at camp was simply amazing. before the week began i had been praying for unity within our group. i have never seen a group of young people bond and treat each other like family like mine did this week. it was truly an answered prayer. i had one girl who accepted Christ…AMAZING!
one other thing that was awesome was that two children were saved from poverty. one of my senior girls sponsored a child through compassion and one of my junior girls family sponsored a child as well. i was extremely excited to see this.
this camp was probably the best camp i have ever been to. i was honestly put-off by the registration process, it was pretty weird, but once i got to the camp and got integrated to the process of the student life camp, it was one of the most well run camps i have ever been to.
now on another note…today was very interesting. this afternoon i started mowing our yard. as i was mowing the side of the house i caught the water line to our house with the front wheel of our mower. next thing i know…..water is spraying everywhere, and i can’t get the water turned off. sooo, my crazy handyman dad comes over and we spend like 4 hours taking apart and re-engineering the water line. we get it working after a few hours and then i get back to finishing the yard. last time i worked in the yard…this happened. so needless to say, when i got to the back fence…i was a little paranoid. but i made it through without getting stung by one of those dadgum yellow jackets.
i’ve been working on laundry from youth camp so we can have clean clothes tomorrow and i put together a little table for my wife this evening.
this has really been one of the most random days ever.
ever.
oh yea. go read my wife’s blog. show her some love.
grace and peace.
tonight was pretty cool…
i went to the astros/yankees game. the ’stros lost 8-4 but it was still pretty cool getting to see the yankees play live. i think if i would have sat down and written a bucket list, this MIGHT have been on mine. there were so many yankee fans at the ballpark. i hated it. you could actually hear chants for the yankees…but the yankee fans were ok. nowhere near as bad as the cardinals or cubs fans.
we sat in the club level…for free thanks to one of my wife’s friends. our tickets were given to us by a very gracious church member…thanks wayne! and we found free parking, and b/c of one of my wife’s friends, we got free soda while in the club. it was dang awesome.
a good night indeed.
grace and peace.
tonight we went bowling with the youth group. it was alot of fun. now kimb has like 10 of the girls from our youth group here at the house for an old fashion slumber party. so i am basically locked up in the master bedroom at our house with my trusty macbook and a nice big glass of water and a bag of craw-tators.
it is a lovely night indeed.
also…
…the celtics pulled off one of the greatest comebacks of all time playoff history tonight. take that kobe bryant.
grace and peace.
a couple weeks ago when i was mowing the yard i got stung by something on my back. it hurt. yesterday evening i was weedeating around the fences, trees, etc before bringing the mower out and while doing so i was stung on my elbow. this one was not like the previous. this one hurts bad. this time i felt the wasp fly up to my elbow and then fly away. apparently last night during my sleep i was scratching it b/c this morning i just want to rip my elbow off.
i think our back yard is haunted by the evil wasp spirit that used to live there before our house showed up. all i know is that this def. makes yard work not fun.
grace and peace. (to all but the dadgum wasp)
this has always puzzled me. im not sure why. granted i have been a member of one church all my life. as a child i was member at first baptist rosenberg. when i went to college, i attended other churches simply b/c i played drums in a worship band, but i was still a member at first rosenberg. now i serve as minister to students and young singles at first rosenberg. i am confident that God has called me to serve here and i am seeing the fruits that God is working in some of our students. it is truly an amazing sight.
but what causes people to church hop? i know it is the simple answer that the church isn’t offering what they want. the church isn’t offering enough programs. the church isn’t meeting my needs.
i know this is a generic post. a topic that has been discussed more than once, but it is on my mind.
do church members church hop b/c as church staff members (universally speaking) we have failed to teach them about the church? have we failed to teach them what the purpose of the church is? have we failed to teach them our relation, as believers, to the church? or have we been faithful to teach but church members just don’t listen? im sure it is both. i know i have probably not taught the youth their relationship to the church as good as i could have. but i will fall on the fact that we are selfish people. all of us.
yesterday our pastor preached on the tongue. one of the things that stuck out to me was james 3:8-10
With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessing out of the same mouth! - The Message
now because i am of selfish nature, im certain i have forgotten this at least once already today. my point exactly. we (believers) want church to be about us. im so guilty. we (believers) want the music to be louder or quieter. we (believers) want to sing from hymnals and not the screen. we (believers) want lights to be on not off, bright not dim.
i want jesus. whether its hymnals or screens. loud or quiet music. i want jesus.
jesus i want you more than anything in the world. far more than my silly human desires.
“you cannot care for me with no regard for her. if you love me you will love the church” - derek webb - the church
just my thoughts. my ramblings. thank you wordpress for listening.
as somewhat a ministry to our community we allow the Rosenberg SWAT team to practice scenarios in the upstairs of our church building. i usually don’t know about this until randomly during one afternoon a month i hear loud running above my office. today i have like 20 minutes notice that they were coming. i talked with one of the higher up SWAT guys and i got to take a few pictures before they got started.
so here you go.
a picture of a normal day at the office at FBC Rosenberg
just kidding about the normal day at the office.
grace and peace.
what a great day.
my mom sent me an email letting me see the new hobby lobby email that if full of sweet deals. she told me to look at the top of the ad.
here is what i saw…
this was good to see.
what are your thoughts on businesses living out their Christian faith?
what other business have you seen live our their faith?
grace and peace.
i voted today.
… last sunday morning about 8:55. (give or take a few minutes)
take that tom brady and randy moss.
i like how most of the sports “experts” were saying that the patriots may be the best team ever… well they weren’t the best team on sunday. gosh. i have never been this happy about the outcome of a superbowl in my life.
atta boy eli!
postscript.
happy birthday to me.
i turn 25 today.
… i would let you know that we now have sod in our backyard. not some crazy muddy mess when it rains.
it. looks. good.
well today marked a good day in the life of kimb and i. this evening we had our pre-close meeting on our house. our construction manager, tyler, basically gave us the rundown on how our house works. like if our thermostat says the heat is on but the house isn’t heating, we now know how to fix that problem. or if our garbage disposal stops working, we know how to reset it. it was fun. then he gave us a roll of blue tape to put a piece next to the things that we thought needed to be fixed…cosmetically speaking. it was cool to “inspect” our home. to look at the paint with care. to look at the tile back-splash in the kitchen and the bathroom and make sure the are lined up (for the most part).
kimb and i are almost homeowners.
this is crazy!
thats kimb and i outside our house a few days after we signed contract.
i was thinking about galatians 2:20 tonight.
“i have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer i who live but Christ who lives in me.”
so within this scripture is the thought that i, a Christ follower, should live with self abandon, because after all i am dead to self, and alive in Christ.
i was thinking for some reason earlier tonight that this means that every part of my being needs to be abandoned. my heart. my actions. my thoughts. and then i thought about my heartache and heartbreaks.
im not quite sure that last sentence made sense, but i guess what i’m asking is…
why doesn’t my heart break for the things that break God’s heart?
“5 a.m. on tuesday. why am i up so early? drive out to santa ana cause i’ve got jury duty.”
i got home from hanging out with the fiance tonight and found a jury sumons on my bed that was addressed to me.
why me!!!! whhhhhhhhy meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!?!?!?!?!
i went shopping today. i needed some nice shirts (and by nice i mean wearing to the office during the week. not to wear with a tie.) so i hit up the new kohls in rosenberg. got some for dang cheap. like 60% off. thats how i roll. then i went to the mall to look for a pair of jeans b/c i had a gift card that would take off some of the price. and what did i find while shopping for jeans at the mall…
…ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! my body is apparently a wierd proportion for jean producers. i found some at the levi store, that were slim straight leg. but when i put them on they were very weird looking in certain areas. didn’t really want to walk around drawing attention to those areas. then we went to buckle. again i found some, but they were $76! screw that. sorry buckle. too much. then i went to hot topic. and i think i found some but i am going to go back tomorrow probably cause i gotta drive past the mall anyway.
alot of times i like being dang skinny. but dangit, why cant it be simple for me to find a good stylin pair of jeans that isn’t going to break the bank?
i hope you have a great christmas.
i received an email today from my pastor about a youth minister who had a student commit suicide due to the fact that a relationship that the student had built on myspace was cut off. the article was very interesting. it spoke about what the youth minister did to use the situation to point the students to God and his grace.
then when i was reading news sites and came across this
what in the world has this come to. i believe that matchbox20 song is sometimes truthful.
“i believe the world is burning to the ground”
this was the year that First Baptist Church Rosenberg was formed. Our church seems to take great pride in the fact that it is crazy old. working in a church that is this old has many advantages as well as many disadvantages.
one of the advantages that is also a disadvantage is the fact that we have an abundance of random junk just laying around the church in random closets. one of the things that i stumbled upon that has take up residence in my office is a record player.
so i am currently basking in the glory that is bob dylan on vinyl.
so to whoever “donated” this record player to the youth room many years ago…
…thank you.
i appreciate it.
while at lunch i saw quite possibly the greatest commercial of all time. it was advertising for sonic happy hour. for the month of november, from 2-4 pm, all drinks and slushes are half off. at this moment i am sipping on a Route 44 cherry vanilla dr pepper that i bought for $1.09 with a quarter, a couple dimes and an abundance of pennies. the girl that brought me the drink looked at me like i was stupid. but hey, i got my cherry vanilla dr pepper. thanks you sonic. ill see you again in a couple days.
…who will help me come up with $2.5 mil. (j/k)
why you ask? this is why.
so apparently this little town is like luckenbach. population 4. you know the deal. but this guy is selling albert, texas, a little town north of san antonio ON EBAY for no less than $2.5 mil.
i thought this was pretty funny. i am really interested to see who buys it and what they turn it in to.
anywho. hope you enjoyed.
deuce.
so the time is almost here. guitar hero 3 comes out in only a few days. i have been watching clips of experts on youtube and i think this one takes the cake. i’ll get there…eventually.
