• Sep 25, 2007

    best thing ever

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    Sep 21, 2007
    serious goofiness

    This sermons series is still my favorite of all time. It is the FOCUS summer 2005 series:

    6-Jul Only God knows what we will talk about this night 1 Cor 1,2
    13-Jul "Why our church is the Only Church and everyone else is going to Hell." 1 Cor 3,4
    20-Jul Excommunication and you. How to get expelled from the church and incur God's wrath. 1 Cor 5,6
    27-Jul You can do whatever the heck* you want.
    3-Aug Why I should never have married my wife night. 1 Cor 7
    10-Aug Your lack of freedom is your friend's fault. 1 Cor 8
    17-Aug On Mullets and Transubstantiation.
    24-Aug My spiritual gift is better than yours! Welcome back CCU students!
    31-Aug 16 ways to destroy the relationships in your life. 1 Cor 13
    7-Sep Speaking in Tongues and other reasons churches divide. 1 Cor 14
    14-Sep You are going to die, get over it. Insert cookout here. 1 Cor 15

    I remember John Wentz, JP Leong, and myself spending an hour coming up with all of the titles. What I like about is is that the titles are meant to be goofy and yet provocative at the same time. I think we pulled it off, although a few of them border on inappropriate. What was really good about it, though, was how well the messages went. John was on the top of his game that summer. I remember we had to extend "Excommunication and you" into two weeks, since the discussions at the end of the first week went really deep and so many challenging and important questions were raised.

    I really miss working with our Focus team from those days.
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    Sep 16, 2007

    good times

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    Sep 15, 2007
    hat trick

    Eastern Kentucky 6, West. Kentucky 26
    Iowa 13, Iowa State 15

    And the big one:

    Louisville 34, Kentucky 40

    It's been a good day!
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    Sep 12, 2007
    a contrast in styles

    I find it interesting that at my old job, facebook was banned. In fact, it was blocked from the server. However, in my current job, several of my "assignments" start off as, "Can you go on facebook and . . . "
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    Sep 11, 2007
    losing it

    The house that I live in is a really nice house in a really nice neighborhood. So, I don't have to deal with a lot of the stuff that I had to deal with while living in Clifton, such as leaky roofs, exposed wires, and all of that fun stuff. However, there is one really odd thing about my current living arrangement.

    For the most part, I don't have to deal with bugs in my house, but there is one exception: crickets. For some unknown reason, my place is loaded with crickets. And, for the most part, they don't bother me. I rarely ever see them. But, at night, they get kind of loud. Which is not a problem, unless they are in my bedroom while I am trying to sleep.

    And, this happens two or three nights a week. Whenever it happens, I have two options: a. go sleep on the couch, or b. go on a cricket hunt. Usually, my choice depends on what time it is. I'm not exactly what you would call an environmentalist, but I try not to kill things when not necessary, so if I go on the cricket hunt, I usually try and catch them and throw them outside.

    The thing is, the more that this happens, the angrier I get at the crickets. So lately, I've been telling myself that I'm going to start killing them instead of catching them. I don't end up doing that, but I feel like I'm coming to that point. And, more recently, I've started telling myself that I need to kill one and leave it lying there to send a message to the other crickets who might dare disturb my slumber.

    Then last night, I heard chirping yet again. So, I start looking for the offender, but this time, I wasn't able to find him. So, I started taunting the cricket, telling him that if he started up again that I wasn't going to be nice anymore and I would definitely kill it. Yes, I did this out loud, so that the cricket would hear me. I attempted to go back to sleep, and and hour later, it started back up. This time, I managed to find him. I caught him, and then started taunting it again, verbally discussing what his fate should be. Well, as I'm taunting him, he manages to get away, forcing me to start chasing him around my bedroom. I caught him again, and then took him out and released him on my porch.

    But clearly, these crickets are causing me to loose my sanity.
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    Sep 3, 2007
    widsom from creed

    "There’re only six things you need if you want to snag a good woman: A guitar, chicken, wine, a car, running water, and some permanent markers. If you don’t have a guitar, a lute will do. You get those six things and you’re Don Juan, trust me."

    Creed Bratton, Creed's Thoughts
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    Sep 1, 2007
    gettin the band back together

    So, continuing my ripping off of Barnes and Tommy, here is another "dream lineup." This is the lineup for my dream band:

    Vocals: John Fogherty, Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Harmonica: John Popper, Blues Traveler
    Guitar: Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits
    Guitar: Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top
    Bass: Jance Garfat, Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show
    Keys: Billy Powell, Lynard Skynard
    Keys: Elton John
    Drums: Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones

    I know, too much awesome for one group.
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