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World Aids Day

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:39:28 -0600

Today is World Aids Day.

Aids is one of the worst epidemics to ever strike our planet. It is no longer a disease of one people group or sexual orientation.

Here are some facts…

Every 12 seconds someone contracts HIV.

Every 16 seconds someone dies of AIDS.

In 2007 alone there were 31,000,000 adults, 15,500,000 women and 2,000,000 children with HIV around the world.

In 2007 there were also 2,000,000 deaths of AIDS 270,000 of them children.

This is not something that we should ignore. We need to do all we can to help support the organizations that are fighting this disease and also help those who have been or are being affected by this tragedy… even if we don’t believe or agree in there lifestyle.

"You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:41:12 -0600

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”

- C.S. Lewis (via meganmalice)

"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people."

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:40:47 -0600

“I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.”

- Jack Handey (via unalone)

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt."

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:36:00 -0600

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“You’re sitting in a chair in the sky” Classic

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:16:00 -0600

“You’re sitting in a chair in the sky”

Classic

This is incredible. Ed Young of Fellowship Church, during his...

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:54:52 -0600

This is incredible. Ed Young of Fellowship Church, during his current series “Leaving Lust Vegas”, has issued a 7 day sex challenge to his married members of the church.

The fact that this reporter on CNN is insinuating Ed is telling the husbands in the church to rape their wives is ridiculous.

I don’t understand why the media is so out to get anything that proclaims faith in God or how the media can get away with some accusations or suggestions they make.

“A Net That Works” produced by Mike May documenting...

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:31:52 -0600

“A Net That Works” produced by Mike May documenting the work Doug Stringer and Somebody Cares is doing in the aftermath of hurricane Ike.

Halloween is over... now let's give Thanksgiving a good kick to the face!

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:36:55 -0600

This is my favorite time of year.

I love it when it starts getting a little cold outside, the sky get’s a little grey, and I will admit it, I often look at the sky hoping for a little snow. (Though this never happens because I live in Texas)

The main reason that I love this time of year is that it is the holiday season, and my very favorite holiday is coming up.

What’s that?

What is my favorite holiday you ask?

Well, it was once a well known holiday that everyone in our country celebrated.

Let me give you some hints.

Turkey, Pilgrims, Indians, The Mayflower. Any idea?

I’ll just tell you: Thanksgiving.

Remember that holiday? We use to get together with our families, eat a big meal and go around the table telling everyone what we were most thanksful for this year.

Well we used to to that, before Halloween and Christmas got together one night and decided that there was not enough winter for all the holidays to share. So what did they do?

Halloween and Christmas got together with the local business owners and decided to squeeze out Thanksgiving.

“Yeah”, they told Thanksgiving, “We’ll still give you the day, but don’t expect anyone to know about it”.

And in a brilliant PR move Thanksgiving was regulated down from a first class national holiday to the one last thing getting between consumers and “Black Friday”.

I love Thanksgiving.

I love getting together with my family. I love waking up early Thursday morning and smelling the turkey cooking in my Mom’s oven, I love sitting in the living room all morning long eating cinamon rolls and watching the Macy’s Thankgiving Day Parade. I even like sitting, waiting to see Santa end the Parade.

The other day, Nov. 8th, I pulled up to a local Hobby store and not only could I see the sparkle of Christmas lights on the trees and the soft rolling fake snow on the ground of the stores window display, I could also here the sound of the bell. The bell of the Salvation Army worker standing out front, collecting donations, in her unmistakable red bucket.

As I stood in that parking lot, staring at the Christmas scene before me. Holding my latte from Starbucks, served to me in that festive red Christmas cup. Listening to the carols beaming through the parking lot speaking, playing songs like “Oh Holy Night” and “Jingle Bells” I have to admit something….

I have never wanted to kick over a Salvation Army bucket more in my life!

Thanksgiving, I will never forget you!

"Come on now all you young men, all over the world… Twenty to twenty-five! These are the..."

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:07:09 -0600

“Come on now all you young men, all over the world…
Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Don’t be content with things as they are. The earth is yours and the fullness there of. Enter upon your inheritance, accept responsibility. Raise the glorious flags again, advance them upon the new enemies, who constantly gather upon the front of the human army, and have to be assaulted to be over thrown.
You will make all kids of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.”

- Winston Churchill

I feel ya Ron… I feel ya.

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:41:31 -0600

I feel ya Ron… I feel ya.

Former members of the Church

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:54:08 -0600

I came in this morning after a long night of election watching and Thereflu taking to quite a disturbing scenario.

I guess we have been having some rodent problems in the office, so they put out traps all over the building to try and get rid of the rats.

The kind of traps they set out though are those “humane” kind that don’t kill the rats, they just trap them on this paper covered in glue.

Now to say that these traps don’t kill the rats is wrong. The traps might not kill the rats, they just stick to them waiting for someone to come in with the courage to put the rats out of there misery.

So far this morning we have caught 3 rats.

Below are some pictures of the last one we caught.

It was huge.

It was disgusting.

And it refused to go quietly.

"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:08:14 -0600

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”

- John Naisbitt (via simko)

Artist Michael C Place aka Build from London, UK. Created this...

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:32:16 -0500

Artist Michael C Place aka Build from London, UK.

Created this for an advertising campaign for a new line of “white out” correctors.

Cancer and my small mind

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:35:00 -0500

Cancer has touched my life about 5 times. Not me directly, but people close to me, people that I would consider not just friends but family. Just this last week we found out that it has happened again.

Pastor Robert and Karyn Barriger from Lima Peru, just found out that Karyn has an aggressive form of breast cancer. The doctors are very hopeful, in fact Karyn’s doctor (who happens to be the Surgeon General of Peru) has said that he thinks they can get rid of the cancer with aggressive treatment. We are really standing with Robert and Karyn, believing that not only will this cancer go away, but that this will make a huge impact on the country of Peru, as they witness God’s power in Karyn’s treatment and healing.

This news has reminded me of something that I dealt with earlier this year, and am still dealing with. A few years ago I had a friend, a very close friend, that was diagnosed with cancer. He has literally been fighting for his life for years. In the process, this friend has lost his faith in God. That has been very hard for me since he was very influential in my life as far as my relationship with God. Last year, another friend of mines wife was suddenly diagnosed with cancer.

The difference between this friend is that he and his wife are pastors of a very successful church. My friend who lost his faith is still fighting for his life. My other friend, the pastor, lost his wife earlier this year.

What really bothered me about this was not just the fact that these are my friends, but how biased I became in my prayer for them. For my friend the pastor, I went into real spiritual warfare. I fasted, I prayed, I wept, I declared healing over her body. For my friend who has lost his faith, without realising, I began to pray for his return to Christ. I prayed that he would realise his error and repent. Praying for his healing became an after thought, a prayer I would quickly say at the end of my prayer time.

When my friend the pastor lost his wife I was sad. It was hard for me to understand how this could happen with everyone who was praying. But when I stepped back, and listened to God. I was no longer just sad. I was also broken.

Jesus never showed bias toward those he touched and healed. In fact he told us not to be very care full about showing favor to one person or another. Just because one of my friends lost his faith and one was a pastor, it does not change the power of God. In fact if you study the people that Jesus healed, most of them were healed before they believed.

Isaiah 59:1 says : “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.”

There is nothing that we can do to limit the power of God. God is God no matter what we think or do. But we can limit the power of God in our lives, and that starts in our thinking.

In my mind, I gave God only so much power. I thought, if He is going to heal someone, it is probably going to be the pastors wife, not my friend who lost his faith. I think for me, this issue and many others that we might think, talk or argue about really can be boiled down to one question: I either believe God and his word or not. He is either ALL powerful, or not at all.

Hopefully in the future, when I am faced with a choice between what I think God can or can’t do or who he can or cannot touch, I will remember this.

Please pray for Robert and Karyn Barriger, their family and their church.

Also pray for my other friend, that he would be healed.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:04:52 -0500

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

- Thomas Edison.

"We learn nothing from those who say: ‘Do as I do.’ Our only teachers are those who tell..."

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:31:59 -0500

“We learn nothing from those who say: ‘Do as I do.’ Our only teachers are those who tell us to ‘do with me.’”

- Gilles Deleuze, Differences and Repetition

Blog Action Day- Poverty and the Church

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:48:00 -0500

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

-Mahatma Gandhi

I had an interesting conversation this morning over coffee. There is really no need to give you the details, but the subject was on “The Prosperity Gospel”. The main question that came up over and over again was “Does God want you Rich?”
My short working answer was I don’t think God cares. It seems to me that anytime Jesus made any reference to being rich, it was to someone who was already rich, and when being rich was talked about, Jesus was usually telling someone to give away all that they had to the poor.

Jesus never spoke a sermon about how to make money. He never asked anyone to give a faith seed. He never told anyone that God wanted them to live in a huge house drive a nice care or where expensive clothes. But, he also never said not to.
I don’t think that Jesus really cared if people were rich.He did care if they were poor.
It seems like when he was dealing with the rich, he was always trying to stir them into helping the poor. He was always hanging out with the poor, the sick and the outcasts.On more then one occasion Jesus fed people who were hungry.
Does God want you rich?I don’t know, but I know he doesn’t want you hungry.
Today is Blog Action Day. A day when bloggers from all over the world try to shed some light on a single cause: Poverty.

My life is all about building the church.

I love the church.

I really do believe that the Church of Jesus Christ could change the world.

I believe that the church could and should be the greatest social activists on the planet.We could bring food, medicine, water… Jesus.

We could be the solution to poverty.

There was a boy in the Bible that fed 5000 people with some bread and fish.How did he do it? He just showed up with what he had.Of course, he had to put down his picket signs, his political agenda, his boycott letters, and his overall prejudice of those “not in his group”… oh, wait a minute…no that’s us.

I am not being judgmental myself. In fact, this post is more for me than for anyone. As I type this, I could not tell you when the last time was I helped someone less fortunate than me, and that’s sad.

Maybe, hopefully, today is a day of change for me and others…

There are alot of great places that are doing alot of great things to try and destroy poverty in this world. Some are Christian, some are not. All of them are doing a great job.
Go to BlogActionDay.org/resources to find out who they are.One great organization I would recommend would be Somebody Cares.

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:15:50 -0500

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

jakeandamir: VOTE OR DIE!… Well maybe not die… VOTE...

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:52:47 -0500

jakeandamir:

VOTE OR DIE!… Well maybe not die… VOTE OR BE QUIET!

Why not spend 2 min of your web surfing time speaking out for...

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:44:00 -0500

Why not spend 2 min of your web surfing time speaking out for someone who can’t?