you know, with all the "Fear of God"/"Fear of the LORD" stuff we've been trafficking in lately, i thought it may be helpful to post this teaching from brother John Piper. Check it out.
just click the title of this post...
Monday, June 16, 2008
ice cream is good.
a couple of years back i had an elective surgery go "awry". I recovered and got back to some semblance of life as usual. it wasn't until a year later that i began to get in and out of a car without pain. I remember a day in march, two years ago (the surgery was longer than 2 years back, obviously) that I remarked, "Hey, I can get out of the car without wincing! (wince--to grimace with pain) ...wincing!"
It was around that time that i realized that weighing 190 pounds wasn't my normal state... but the pastoring and the studying and the teaching and reading and writing and blogging and the trying to figure out what in the blazes I'm doing down here had me pretty sedentary, even though i was trying to skate as often as i could...
Then Effort took me on as a rep and i upped my skating. and i lost, in four months or so, about 20 pounds!
Now i'm like 2 years later and still running at the 170 mark, skating every day and i just want to say,
"Ice Cream is Good"
and then like Nacho in the scene where the kids are wrestling, "Reeeeeallly guuud!" fanTAStic!
i have ice cream more now than i did back then. and it's been really good. But now my food becomes fuel for a Fathering Machine!
I'm out there everyday with my sons and Sam (who lives upstairs) and Marcelo (a loaner son from Brazil), shredding and living life and learning to look both ways...
wow. what a luxury! amazing!
plus... ice cream!
I know hard times always loom on the horizon. yeah yeah. and i am sure i'm going to be there with Jesus, ready or not (and i think you'll find me looking pretty ready if you read my back posts--they may even help you get ready, too), but man, i'm so grateful for all the amazing physical blessings that are abounding in our life here.
L.
In Louisville
I'm in Louisville Ky today with Judy for a thing with her work. Got to "tag along" and enjoy a night away.
I was going to skate the big skatepark here (world class!) but it's raining. Honestly, I'm really pleased. Not relieved. I'm up to skate at a hat's drop, but I'm glad for a chance to catch up with you, dear readers.
We've hit the summer rhythm over here. Take Seth and Kadin to camp, Get Aaron and Marcelo involved in something, work on skatepark stuff, meet with people around the church and the gospel and Jesus and whatnot...
Recently, I've been batting around some interesting possibilities for myself as a man of God, husband, father, pastor, and worker (in that order).
One of the developments that is rich in opportunity is the loss of my status as "ordained". Our organization (The Body of Christ, Intl.) has shifted hands and we have opted to use this as a fresh beginning.
Presently, I am unable to sign marriage papers, issue tax receipts (some of you have a phone call coming, and I am holding a few checks), and... i think that's all. just can't do those things.
Do i need to? I talk to Jesus everyday! and He leads me into richer and richer ministry stuff everyday! every day! He was an uneducated Rabbi, without papers! They were freaked at how much he did in the power of the Spirit that they, with all their credentialing, couldn't touch...
hmmm...
why start a church when we're already being a church? Isn't there a denial of some sort embedded in that behavior?
isn't there a disowning of God's kingdom, there? hmm...
I was going to skate the big skatepark here (world class!) but it's raining. Honestly, I'm really pleased. Not relieved. I'm up to skate at a hat's drop, but I'm glad for a chance to catch up with you, dear readers.
We've hit the summer rhythm over here. Take Seth and Kadin to camp, Get Aaron and Marcelo involved in something, work on skatepark stuff, meet with people around the church and the gospel and Jesus and whatnot...
Recently, I've been batting around some interesting possibilities for myself as a man of God, husband, father, pastor, and worker (in that order).
One of the developments that is rich in opportunity is the loss of my status as "ordained". Our organization (The Body of Christ, Intl.) has shifted hands and we have opted to use this as a fresh beginning.
Presently, I am unable to sign marriage papers, issue tax receipts (some of you have a phone call coming, and I am holding a few checks), and... i think that's all. just can't do those things.
Do i need to? I talk to Jesus everyday! and He leads me into richer and richer ministry stuff everyday! every day! He was an uneducated Rabbi, without papers! They were freaked at how much he did in the power of the Spirit that they, with all their credentialing, couldn't touch...
hmmm...
why start a church when we're already being a church? Isn't there a denial of some sort embedded in that behavior?
isn't there a disowning of God's kingdom, there? hmm...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Hepi Brdej! Happy Birthday Prari!!!!
Our own Prari Parran has a birthday today!!! I left the following Bulgarian Birthday Song on her voicemail! Everyone join us in celebrating the gift of God who is Prari!!!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Solla Solla enna perumai
i have had trouble finding words lately so i want to share this song with you. from my heart.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
This week's messin around...skateboarding-wise
something to show for my funeral. cut down and condensed with music by Beck from the movie, Nacho Libre... all of which are fair game for my funeral. you know, i'm really cognizant of my mortality... when my kids talk about death--those are precious conversations. we're dead for so long--that is, we enter such and eternal eternity when we die. Preparation of heart and life is... pretty basic... and far too rare... So here's an offering for my funeral. I'll keep these coming. it's good for me...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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