I’m not sure what to think about this? But I czeched the movie times to see if it was around because I am intrigued by this preview. What do you think?
what will it take?
I’ve been driving all over the state of Wisconsin for the last few days working on connecting with ministry partners and also developing some new support. I’m catching a few moments with the family before heading back to Ohio for our last 6 weeks of the school year. It will be a full few weeks and I’m excited to see what God does. But anyway, I thought I would post some, always interesting, thoughts about Prague and the Czech Republic as I’ve read the Prague Post this evening. I just finished reading a recent story entitled City tourism goes for a makeover and found myself asking, “Is that what it will take?”
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don’t waste your life
Since I’ve posted a few things about John Piper as late (click here and here to see them), I thought I would post a clip of a talk he did from his book, Don’t Waste Your Life. I guess as I’ve been watching the Don’t Waste Your Life video podcasts the Lord has been stirring this up in my heart once again! Maybe its that we, as a staff team, are praying and yearning for our students not to waste their summers, and ultimately waste their lives! Please pray for us as we yearn for our students to follow Christ this summer, that might be one of our AIA Summer Opportunities. be a revolution….
the legacy of a father
This morning I czeched out the Desiring God blog and learned that John Piper’s father had recently passed away. You can read Piper’s journal entry that he wrote following his father’s death on the DGM blog, click here. I really appreciate that Dr. Piper would allow this journal entry to be posted. Why? Because it inspired me as a young man to be mindful of how I am living now and how, Lord-willing, I will live in the future as the Lord may bless me with a wife and kids. What type of things will my son say about me after he is at my bed side as I pass? Will he be able to say something similar to what John Piper said? Here are two paragraphs that made me think:
Thank you, Daddy. Thank you for sixty-one years of faithfulness to me. I am simply looking into his face now. Thank you. You were a good father. You never put me down. Discipline, yes. Spankings, yes. But you never scorned me. You never treated me with contempt. You never spoke of my future with hopelessness in your voice. You believed God’s hand was on me. You approved of my ministry. You prayed for me. Everyday. That may be the biggest change in these new days: Daddy is no longer praying for me.
I look you in the face and promise you with all my heart: Never will I forsake your gospel. O how you believed in hell and heaven and Christ and cross and blood and righteousness and faith and salvation and the Holy Spirit and the life of holiness and love. I rededicate myself, Daddy, to serve your great and glorious Lord Jesus with all my heart and with all my strength. You have not lived in vain. Your life goes on in thousands. I am glad to be one.
the big game
Last night, 5 of us AIA staff ventured to Wright State to watch, arguably, the biggest game in men’s basketball history at Wright State and had the privilege of watching an amazing one! Butler took Wright State down to the final minutes, but Wright State held them off for a 60-55 win! My roommate Kyle (a.k.a. my partner in crime), who works with student-athletes at WSU and meets with several of the basketball players, and I made our way down in the closing seconds to rush the court with the WSU faithful once the game concluded. Since I went to a D-3 school, that didn’t have a ton of school spirit, and Kyle went to Moody we haven’t had many opportunities to ever rush the court; okay we have never had the opportunity! So we had to do it! As the seconds ticked out off the clock we rushed the court and joined in the bedlam! Can’t say that it was the best moment of my life. At times it was so packed I couldn’t breath and at one point I looked for Kyle and when I found him he had a look of sheer panic on face. Once we got home he found a CBS Sportsline story and found what you see in the post! We made national media again! First ESPN at the Super Bowl and now this. Crazy. I hope you enjoy the pic. Make sure you find Kyle and see his facial expression. Priceless… Have a revolutionary day!
what men need…
One of my daily blog reads is the Resurgence and I hope that it becomes one of your’s as well! It is a collaboration of pastors and thinkers that are pursuing Biblical Christianity and what the Kingdom of God looks like lived out in our world. Anthony Bradley’s posts of been a blessing during the past year as I’ve wrestled through what it means to be missional to our world and his newest entry doesn’t disappoint either. Here are a couple of quotes, czech out the rest, click here.
David Murrow, author of Why Men Hate Going To Church, reminds us that 61% of the average adult U.S. church attendance is women, 80% of attendees at midweek church activities are women, and 90% of boys raised in the church will abandon it by time they turn 20-years-old.
“Men are looking for a real man to follow: dynamic, outspoken, bold, sharp-edged. They want a leader who is decisive, tough, and fair. They respect a man who tells it like it is and doesn’t mince words, even when it makes them mad. Men most respect a leader who doesn’t care what others think of him,” says Murrow. Satan is real, hell is real, people are dying, sin is alive, repentance is needed, healing is necessary and people need a Jesus who bears a sword and fights for them and men pursuing death for the same cause.
i love john piper!
If there was an author, other than the Holy Spirit, who has had a HUGE impact on my life it is Pastor John Piper out of the Twin Cities. I could go on and on about what Piper books need to be read, here in one and here is another and here is a third! In fact, my friends in college gave me a hard time often saying that I was Pumped for Piper! You would be happy to know that my affection for Piper hasn’t gone to unhealthy lengths, I haven’t even heard him preach in person! But away, through one of the blogs I read I learned that they are doing a new video podcast. here are the details:
Starting this week and over the next 12 months we will be releasing short video podcasts designed to be a weekly encouragement and challenge to not waste our lives. As the Lord provides, our plan is to produce at least 100 hundred episodes. Every episode will take a theme from the book, Don’t Waste Your Life, and challenge us to think about what we are doing with the lives the Lord has given us. We are encouraging everyone with a website, blog, etc. to use any of these episodes to spread the message around the world. We are praying that many who would never read the book may be impacted in a significant way by watching one of these podcasts.
Subscribe to the video podcast. (You can also subscribe in iTunes.)
Please go and czech these out! I wanted to post them within this post, but they won’t work from google video. But follow the linkc above and PLEASE watch these and if you haven’t seen the amazing resource Piper has you need to czech out his site! Be a revolution for the nations!
more music for you today, or tonight…
So I realize that when I get sick or am about to travel my music library expands! But I still have these iTunes gift cards (yes they didn’t burn a whole in my pocket since Christmas! Hard to believe for those who know me well, huh?) and I love them. I really love them! Did I say I love iTunes gift cards? Ok, I know I’m fishing… Sorry. I hope you are still reading because I have a musical treat for you! His name is Josh Garrels and you can download his first alblum free, I’m serious czech it out, click here. I’ve enjoyed his music for about 6 months now, and it was a blessing to stumble across it. I love storytellers and acoustic guitars! His lyrics are real and hit home with a lot of the things that I’ve and am kicking around my head. I looked for lyrics from his newest album, Over Oceans, but I had no luck so here are some lyrics from one the songs you can download for free. I hope you enjoy it! Have a blessed night!
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k-os
This weekend was filled with fever, lots of pills, chicken noodle soup and lots of blind stares at the TV, but at some point during the weekend I used a Christmas iTunes gift card and bought the newest album from Canadian hip-hop artist, K-OS. And it rocks! I love it. I’ve listened to it over and over again. K-OS is really refreshing to me because his lyrics aren’t filled with the same old thing that you hear coming from the majority people in the hip-hop world. In fact, in K-OS’ earlier album, Joyful Rebellion, he is even critical of the hip-hop world in his song Emcee Murder. Case in point:
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streptococcal pharyngitis
streptococcal pharyngitis – a.k.a – strep throat = NO FUN!
There you have what has been going on in my life the last oh 36 hours! I don’t know what is up but I’ve been sick more times in the past year since I’ve moved here than I did throughout my two years living overseas and college combined! Needless to say it is a bit frustrating. I was at the doctor’s for two hours and I got a big shot to the “hip” and now I have some drugs that should knock this thing out! But I realized that these drugs don’t provide immediate relief. Case in point, last night was the worst night of sleep ever! I woke up freezing, but I didn’t want to get out of bed. An hour later my sheets were soaked with my own sweat. This vicious cycle continued throughout the night and now I have the zombie gaze at the NFL Network on my tv. I’d appreciate some prayers that God would knock this out quick, because if things work out, Lord-willing, my days here in Ohio and the guys I work with our limited and I want to take advantage of the days I have left. Oh, last night at 9:00 pm the initial evaluator of my international application with Campus Crusade’s International Human Resources called to interview me. I wasn’t in the best state of mind, but I pray that I said what was needed. Pray also for this application I should know next week as the final evaluator gets my application. Okay, I need to go pass out. Thanks…
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