Saturday, August 25, 2007

Boiled Frogs ( we all boil together if no one watches the thermometer as the temperature rises )

This is a very interesting video that was sent to me. It's interesting at many levels including the genuine responses of the people walking along Hollywood Boulevard. I don't know who this guy is, but he loves to paint people in a corner.

I'm sure most of the people that he interviewed just wrote him off as a whacko and went about their day. At least a few them listened.

Clearly, the people on the video were examples of people that had not completed rejected the truth that all of nature portrays and is seen in the reflection of our society.

It is ironic that Hollywood chooses to reinforce that Jesus Christ is Lord of All by not programming society to believe it is popular to take the name of Mohammad or Buddha in vain. In a way, the people that produced this video are only amplifying Hollywood's claims that Jesus Christ is Lord at the cost of the lives of the patrons who know no way out of the corner.

If you have ten minutes, paint yourself in a corner by watching this. I wonder what trail he would have taken me down...

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Two Volleyball + One Football = Busy Fall

Don't expect too many posts to the blog in the next two months...

Carmen made the Tates Creek JV & Varsity Volleyball team at Tates Creek High School
and is playing well as a defensive specialist in several games against traditionally strong Kentucky High School JV teams like Ryle, Manual and Boone County.

Adam made the Lexington Traditional Magnet School Football team as the "new kid" eight grader that already seems to know every teenager in the city of Lexington

Becca made the LTMS Volleyball team as a sixth grader. Lots of hard work with her big sister, mother and neighbors made this rather last minute decision to try out a success.

Practice and game overlaps occur every school night.

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Commissioning Service for Michael and Joe Joe

Michael and Joe Joe are gifts to our body. It was good to see their parents and family for the service and it reminded me of the hot afternoon that they were married at Tatesbrook a few years ago.

On that day, both of the air conditioner units in the sanctuary were out and the wedding was balmy. We had fans set up before and after the wedding to help move cooler air in from other parts of the building. As we commissioned them to head to Tanzania, they will soon be experienced longer periods of more uncomfortable conditions than they did on their wedding day.

I can't begin to think how much our family will miss Michael and Joe Joe. Even though they are much younger than Jackie and I, their contributions to the marriage group that we attended together were filled with wisdom beyond their years and always creative and full of love.

Michael has taught Adam everything that Adam knows about drumming in three years of lessons. Michael predicted that being a drummer would get Adam in trouble and he was right. Michael's love of music has inspired more than Adam within our family.

As I read "Lead Like Jesus", I knew that Michael, Joe Joe, Matt and Kim would all identify with the calling that compels us to serve as He did. As we studied this book together, it was Joe Joe that contributed the depth.

The commissioning service did not disappoint us. It was tremendously worshipful and creative. I loved the comparison of Michael and Joe Joe to Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 12 by all the speakers at the service.

As they depart from Haran, we are happy about the message they will carry and the packaging and delivery that has caused us to love them so.

Haran replies, "Good Bye Michael and Joe Joe!"

You can follow the ministry of Michael and Joe Joe on their blog: GoodbyeHaran