Rome and Florida

I just got back from a great discussion with our Romans Bible study. We are just going through the book verse by verse, reading different versions, making observations, trying to figure this book out. It is so amazing to wrestle with these hard issuse with in a group of 30-45 people. We talked about the paradox of God's wrath and mercy, and of judging others etc... All in all, very cool discussion. You get so much more perspective when you read the passage with a group of other people who want to learn about this stuff just as much as you do. This is becoming on of the highlights of my week.

Also, we are leaving on vacation tomorrow to Florida. Suzanne's parents own a couple condos in Sebring. So we will be gone for a week. Maybe we can get over our depression due to not seeing the sun for the last three weeks. I'll bring you a keychain.

More

So Muzzleofbees.com is becoming one of my favorite places for good music. Go here to download the Coldplay show that I was talking about a couple posts ago. For sure, download "in the sun" though. Such an amazing song.

Social Justice

These statistics are staggering. How do we respond?

Give A Man A Fish...

Anyone want to help me redo my site? With the knowledge you share, I will give up any of my poker secrets which could allow you to make many times more than what I would have to pay you to redesign the site youself. Please?

crazyface

When Eric was over, he got Jaden to make some crazy faces.

Ouch

So, I had to save my son's life today. Well, I was walking into the chruch, carrying Jaden and slipped on some ice. I couldn't put my arm down because I was trying to protect Jaden. So I hit my head on the ice and somehow hurt my knee too. So I have a headache. I had to cancel meetings and practices tonight because I'm kind of out of it. Dumb ice.

Austin City Limits

So we just got done watching Austin City Limits on PBS. It was Coldplay and they were awesome. They did 'Till Kingdom Come which they said they wrote about Johnny Cash. Then they morphed into Ring Of Fire. Awesome. That wasn't the best thing though. Michael Stipe came out and sang an amazing song called In The Sun, by Joseph Arthur. Seriously, download the song. Stipe and Martin sounded amazing together.

Then as the credits were rolling they interviewed Chris Martin and their bass player.

Bass Player: When we are in the studio, we really want to go out on the road. We get tired of recording...
Bass Player: Then when we are on the road we get tired of that, you know, and we really want to get into the studio.
Chris Martin: yeah, I guess we are musically bisexual. We like both. (touring and recording that is).

um ok.

Folk-Worship

So, I just had practice with the new folk band at church with is pretty much Brandon, Laura and me right now. It is just so fun playing gospel/bluegrass songs and hymns. The songs just seem to have so much soul to them. Brandon and Laura are amazing musicians to, I'm just waiting for them to kick me out of the band. Anyway, let me know if you have a favorite hymn or bluegrass/gospel song that you'd like to hear at Riverview, we may do it.

Team BS

I stole this from Holly, who stole this from Noel. Steve and Noel just got back from a trip to Amsterdam and Germany and while they were in Germany, some of the guys said, "hey let's take a picture here". Nice work.

My Kid

New Years Bash

Ok, so we threw a party last night. Up until about noon yesterday, I thought we'd be lucky to have about 20 people there, but we ended up with about 75 throughout the night! Crazy.

There was plenty of Guinness, Chimay, Margaritas, a pinata, and of course, I had to win the poker tourney, first prize of $50. I'm tired.