Tally Town Kids!

I got a chance to talk to on of my former students from NFC in Tallahassee today on IM! Brittany is now in 11th grade! WoW! Talking reminded me of all the awesome people that are down there in Tally-town and all the great times I had! I think I'll have to take another road trip to down there sometime soon!

Trying out the image thing

K, just testing this image thing out....



And again, MAD props to Adam who helped me get this image thing down! Now maybe my weblog will be as cool as his! :) Adam was the Youth Pastor in Roswell at Crosspointe Community Church when I interned there the summer of 2002! And this is a pic of some of the AWESOME students that I got to hang with that summer!

To check out more pics of my Roswell experience: Click Here

Miss you guys!

Comments

So, hmmm... I'm sitting here in study hall, trying to avoid doing real work, so I'm blogging, but I'm really not inspired to write anything of importance right now. So I guess I'm just wasting time till the bell.

Oh, I did add a new 'thing' to my weblogs. If you look below each entry there is a place for comments! Thanks to my friend Adam who helped me figure out the HTML for it!!! I'm learning... slowly but surely!

Anyway, Leave a comment if you feel like doing so! I would love to hear responses!

K, now I need to go waste time doing something else!

New Blogger!

My friends Dale Fincher, who is a traveling apologist for Ravi Zacharias International Ministries has a new weblog called Building Castles at:

http://www.buildingcastles.blogspot.com/

Great Insite on Kingdom things! Check it out!!!

Here's Cutting...

Is God really big enough to provide for us? What occupation do we run to in the name of 'practicality,' only to run into the practical wilderness and prevent another from the position? What dating relationship or marriage do we rush into, not for love, but for fear of not having love? What desire to we surrender to without meditating on whether it should be satisfied in the way of our choosing?
-Dale Fincher

You can also sign up to get A Slice of Infinity - A devotional writing of RZIM written by Dale and others.... Click Here

He and his wife Jonalyn live in California, but travel to speak to churches, schools, coffeehouses, bookstores, etc.! Contact them if you would like Dale to come speak at your event!

Sunrise

This morning on the way to work I was listening to Rich Mullins and the song Hold Me Jesus was playing. The song starts out:

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all

Just as those words started to play, I got to a place in the road where the sun could be seen through the trees. It was still a little hazey making the sun a muted pinkish ball that reminded me of an African sun rise (not that I've been there... yet... but from what I've seen on movies and tv.) It was at that moment that everything was put into perspective. Not that my life HADN'T been making sense or anything, b/c I feel pretty darn blessed, but that song had spoken so much to me in times past. There HAD been times that those words have escaped out of my heart. Anyway, on the way to school I was able to see that pink ball transform into a brilliant, blazing fireball. That song goes on to say,

It's so hot inside my soul, there must be blisters on my heart

While enjoying the blessing of that sunrise this morning, that is how I felt, AND I want MORE of it. That passion for God that burns so deep down that you know it must be blistering your insides. Not a passion that is fuled ONLY by emotional fervor, but a passion that is rooted in the awe of knowing God and His character. May God grant me that by His mercies that are new with every brilliant sunrise!

Psalm 62:5-6
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation: He is my defence; I shall not be moved.

Brothers and Sisters in Christ

In True Life, we just did a study on accountability. The Lord has been teaching me a lot this year about our need for each other as brothers and sisters in the Lord. Our need to uphold each other in prayer and encouragement. To hold each other to a standard and lovingly push each other toward Christ. Because of my godly brothers and sisters I feel so rich. I was at a regional Kingsway Youth Leadership meeting this past week and Robert Mearns said, "Your friends are your wealth." I have to testify to that. Because of the relationships that I have been blessed with, I have desired to pursue God more in every area of my life.

On the way to the Kingsway meeting, I was reading a new book called The Wisdom of Tenderness by Brennan Manning (Excellent author! Check him out! Ruthless Trust, Ragamuffin Gospel, etc...)
Anyway, the following exerpt came from that book:

To say, "Abba, Father" in the Spirit is to say that we're children. It's to acknowledge that other people are our brothers and sisters in the human family. This understanding affects our lifestyle because it implies acceptance of others and responsibility for other: we do our best to give family members whatever they need. This familial relationship is to be taken literally, for it's a thing of flesh and blood in the bond of the Holy Spirit. True Christian community is the realization and actualization of "Our Father in Heaven."