who the heck discovered Honey?? I mean I know it’s been around for thousands of years but man… It had to have been the product of starvation. “Hmm theres nothing left to eat but the neighbors… no wait just a dogone minute what about that bees hive over there filled with thousands of bees lets go try to eat that… whoa! this is the sweetest stuff ever!”
random I know 
KJ and I are currently in the middle of a theological debate that we are throwing out to you the masses. Here is the question did Jesus have a sin nature? So don’t hold back this is no holds barred… ready set theorize…
Here we go again random rantings on another random day…
I haven’t been blogging all that regularly lately, mostly because I’ve been busy like a bee, and sick like a Dog.
Scientists have found that flies are dying 15% faster than normal because of their sense of smell… apartenly they are smelling their way to an early grave…
I love and grew up on rap and hip hop music, but in an effort to put no unclean thing before my senses that nixes most of the good stuff… except I’ve found a new love for the group Cross Movements, their like the Wu Tang of christian rap…
Update on the girl I like… it’s at the same place… but we’ve been getting to talk a lot more lately… she is incredible… smart, God fearing, fun to chat with… but yet beginning to wonder if she’ll just end up being a really good friend… which isn’t so bad, just means I might have to put the periscope back up…or not… honestly I have no clue, but she is vast in pulchritude…
My intern makeover was a success… He feels great about himself and no longer looks like a hobo… He’s been smiling a lot lately which in turn has made me smile much more as well…
My house makeover is coming along nicely, the beautiful wood flooring has transformed my living room… My dinning room is next and it’s coming along nicely…
My life is not my own, the more I lead young adults, the more i realize that my holiness effects their holiness…
Obama is on the rise… he’s 2 points behind Hilary and making a push to pass… although it’s way to early in the game to make any definitive statements… I predict an Obama/Clinton ticket in November ‘08… Oh God have mercy…
I’ve always liked the word Bronchitis… it just rolls off the tounge in such a pleasant way… it’s a shame it’s meaning is so wretched…
I’m taking a 2 day retreat this weekend at a retreat center just outside of K.C.. I hope to come back rested and having had written a whole lot…
I have the greatest life of anyone I know… I have the best friends, the best family, the best parents, the best sister, I have all I could ever ask for and have made many mistakes that though were hard I’m greatful for the experiances… I look forward to enduring this life with the people God has placed around me… I am truly blessed…
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The word Gospel means good news, but why was gospel good news? and why did Paul coin the phrase to describe the message of Christ? The term gospel comes from Roman Tradition, when a new king, or emperor was put in place they would carry the “good news” of a new King coming to power. Paul used this term not just to describe the good news of salvation, but the good news of a coming King.
In the church today the gospel goes forth. Thanks to Nicolas Negropnte and the technological revolution, every tribe, people, and language will have a laptop, and WiFi access in the next 5 years. Even now tribes in Nigeria struggling to find food, water, and electricity, have laptops that are manually powered and are surfing the Internet. The outlet for the Message of Christ just got bigger. 6.5 billion people will have heard and will have access to the gospel within the decade. What gospel are they hearing? Predominately the gospel going forth has been one outlining the good news of salvation. Jesus died for your sins, believe in him and you’ll be saved. This is wonderful, and I rejoice that so many will accepted Jesus as their savior.
The problem is, Jesus didn’t die just to abolish us from sin. He died so that we get to be with him as he reigns throughout eternity. Much of the Gospel going forth today has been individualised into “your personal justification”. Like the 80’s pop song goes, “Your Own Personal Jesus. When the gospel is about Jesus, not about us. We were created to glorify him. We were saved because he desired us to be with him as One Bride… to be continued… but till then chime in with what you think the gospel is.
There is an old fable I read once, told by Japanese Samurai. It goes like this (well some what, I’m re-telling it from memory):
One day there was a monk meditating in the woods. He walked through the trees and admired their beauty. He felt the breeze flow passed his cheeks, and listened to it’s subtle hum passed his ears trying to interpret it’s language. As he marveled at nature’s vast pulchritude, he heard the sound of growling. Suddenly he found himself surrounded by 20 wolves snarling, coveting his flesh. He began running, but came to the edge of a cliff. surround he began to climb down. As he gazed 300 feet beneath him he saw a mighty Tiger circling waiting to devour him once he fell. Just then he slipped off the edge and caught him self a few feet down on a berry branch growing out of the side of the cliff. As he clinched on to save his life he saw the most beautiful Strawberry browing on the branch… “what a perfect most beautiful berry!” he said to himself. So he picked it, and ate it. And that’s where the fable ended.
Now what I love about that story, (besides the fact I finnally found a use for the word pulchritude) is that it presents a wonderful picture of life.
Graham Cooke once said,” Now that you are Christians, there are no longer good days or bad days, just days of grace. Grace to enjoy, and grace to endure.” As I find myself in a place of enduring, I’m finding grace in the midst of it. I’m finding those perfect berries to enjoy as I dangle off the side of the cliff. I my case the berry doesn’t represent enlightenment, but Joy and peace in believing. The prize for me no matter the mountain I climb is his heart. The joy and peace of knowing that I’m going to live forever, puts a smile on my face, no matter how many wolves snarl, and tigers circle. One day… one beautiful day… he will split the sky! Paul was right to command the church of Corinth to encourage eachother in this truth. A king is coming, but not just a King, the one my heart longs for.
So bring on the wolves! And if you are like me and feel you are dangling off a cliff with no hope in your situation, know this; More than the stress, more than the pain, to live is Christ and to die is gain… we are going to live forever…
I realize i’m keep changing my header… I trying to create something that I can keep for a long time. So thus the change, I like this one cause I look angry… kinda like a tuff guy. which is funny cause I’m generally pretty soft, kind, and happy. ok ok I promise meaty content coming soon… but till then I’ll tell you about my current project:
I have an intern, who by his own admission, dresses like a homeless man. Wheres the same clothes for a week, never does his hair, and hasn’t trimmed or even touched his beard in years. Honestly I don’t mind as long as he loves Jesus, but he has been struggling with his self esteem. After numerous couciling sessions with him, where I tried to get his focus off of his self loathing and onto Jesus, who thinks he is beautiful, I had an epiphany. I thought, “you know what? I bet if he dressed different, and cleaned up a bit, took some pride in his appearence, he might actually feel good about himself!” So I asked around, got some cash, and we are giving him a full-on makeover! Today he and some of my guys went shopping, bought him nice new jeans, some nice dress shirts and a sport coat. Tommorow it gets better, we are taking him to IHOP hair styling specialist Hannah James, where he’ll get the rug on his head and face sculpted into a self esteem building work of art. Already he is so excited, a little awkard, but excited.
In fact today was a sight to see. 5 guys (most look like skater punks) in designer clothing stores, running around gitty like girls looking for clothes to make Our subject look nice. Grabbing clothes and holding them up to him, “Dude this is sick! you’d look so rad in this!” or ” bro! that’s hot, you should totally rock that!” It was funny!
Well I promise more meaty posts soon, right now my head feels like a blimp… or the Hindenburg… “Oh the humanity!”
randy it still hasn’t gotten old!
Many of you have probably seen this video of J, kyle and I but I’m bringing it to you today. simply for the sake of posting something, as I’m sick, and without internet connection at home.
This video was the result of having the camrea on during our trip to Lawrence, KS. none was planned, it’s just a window into our world… welcome…
Well folks I’m back!!! Peeking my head up from the Birthday weekend festivities… Which Today is it’s climax, that’s right as of right now I have spent 25 years wondering this fair earth, and I have much to show for it… So let the randomness ensue…
Friday night Was a wonderful evening of Celebration, My Sister, Shawna, and my best bud Jared threw me a stellar party. IT was actually stellar as unbenownced (not how you spell that but I’m leaving it…) it was a Superhero party, where everyone came dressed up as super heroes… it was way cool.
My good friend Chris has been in town all weekend. Chris is a successful business man in the investor world, and spends most of his time paling around with members of the Forbes 100. Needless to say going from that world to my world filled with everything Jared has been really funny to watch…
Time Magazine is talking crap about CPC…
I’ve done the math, and figured out that I’ve listened to Mike Bickle speak 2336 hours, or 97.3 days, in the last 5 years. And I still don’t know if the city is floating or not…
My wonderful friends purchased a 80 gig video I-Pod for me for my birthday!! I’m now a member of the Apple fan club!
My Sister rocks my face off!
At my 14th birthday party my parents bought me Rollerblades, I was a little too adventurous and tried to Rollerblade down a gigantic hill that ended with a huge ramp at a skate park near by, needless to say I learned what asphalt tasted like…
I used to play in Hardcore Bands in high school, and once at the end of a show I threw my drumsticks out into the audience and hit some kid in the forehead. A year later he found me at graduation and and still had the sticks, he asked me to autograph them… I did…
I’m starting to get a cold again… lame
I plan on enjoy the day cold or no cold… it’s my birthday I can’t let it go to waste!!
well friends I’m going to go continue celebrating!
peace
I’m going to throw this out there for the masses. I feel as Christians especially, that we need to be careful with our rhetoric concerning the never-ending conflict in the middle east. Often I see Christians struggling to love the people in the middle east, but show nothing but hate towards, terrorists, and radical Islamists, in their blogs, in conversations, and in statements defending the war.
To be very clear let me say this so my doctrine is not confused. They are going to hell unless they turn their hearts and actions over to Jesus. What they are doing is horrific and outright evil.
With that said, I love them. Could revival not come out among radical Islam? What is Osama Bin Ladden had a road to Damascus encounter the Jesus, and become fighting for the gospel? God’s heart burns for their hearts as vehemently as it does for the oppressed children in Darfur.
In life there are saved and unsaved all need Jesus. Sure terrorists, and Radical Islamists are doing wicked things… they’re wicked, I wouldn’t expect anything else out of them. I pray for their redemption. But till then, lets watch our words, and not solicit hate because people don’t know Jesus…
So I got an early birthday present…
I saw an ad for wood flooring, and I looked down at my dreaded carpet and sighed. Carpet is so lame, especially when you have a fire place. Plus carpet doesn’t fit the whole library feel I’m going for in my living room. So like any good home owner I calculated how much it would cost in install wood flooring in my house, it was way to expensive to even remember. Then I had an epiphany, Why not pull up the carpet and see what’s underneath. I tear at the carpet to my utter delight, there is beautiful mahogany finished wood flooring underneath the carpet. I shouted with joy, then got mildly frustrated. What moron put in the effort necessary to cover up such beautiful wood? Makes absolutely no sense. Needless to say as soon as I get some free time, the carpet is coming up, and the sanding and re-staining is on, and oh yes before and after pictures will be posted.
I must be turning 25 on Sunday, because when thoughts of remodling and buying drapes to match get me this excited surley young adulthood is setting, dawning a new era; adulthood…
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