Lord's Supper Music

What Have We Done by Mars Hill band: Northern Conspiracy

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Come Thou Fount by Sufjan Stevens


My Jesus I Love Thee
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Jesus Messiah

Today my son turns 17

Zak is 17 today.

All the cliches are true. It has went by too fast. I am not ready to see him leave for college. Etc, etc.

He is a good kid. I've been continuously proud of him.

If I were to narrow down one prayer for him on this birthday it would be...
"Lord make him the kind of man that you can use. Make him the kind of man that will matter in your church and your kingdom. Make him the kind of man that a godly wife can trust and lean on. Make him the kind of man that rules his family well and his kids can respect. Make him the kind of man that an employer would want. Make him the kind of man that will provide for his family, give to his church and help those in need. In it all help him to believe the words of Jesus, "Without Me you can do nothing."

Clarity

This Wed I am teaching on the value of modern translations. I'll use these clips to show both speeches are powerful. But the Mel Gibson speech has the added benefit of clarity.

In today's world of language the KJV is still powerful and majestic. But the faithful modern translations gives the added plus of clarity.

This is the prologue from one of my fave movies Henry V


This is a clip from We Were Soldiers...

Mission Trips

In case you aren't a geography major it is Mexico, Kenya and Peru.

visited 4 states (1.77%)
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States we've done mission work in...KY, New York, Vermont and Montana


visited 4 states (8%)
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New-vember 30th Family Service

~ The set up was excellent. It felt like being in someone's living room @ Christmas. We even had a fireplace.

~ Cooperation and leadership was great. People pitched in and knocked out the work very efficiently.

~ The solos of music, poetry and even origami was really fun and well done.

~ Why can't we have cookies in all of our servies?!

~ Preached on getting involved in the Kingdom of God beyond just our local church. It was a good theme, well received I hope.

~ New-vember has been great. I'll miss it when things get back to normal.

~ Next Sun PM...Lord's Supper!!

I know what you are asking...

Ron could you recommend a good headbanging Christmas song circa 1984? Break out the net tank tops, parachute pants and crank it up!!

Heavy Christmas by 220 Volt

Countdown to 43 part 4

As we march towards my wife's 43rd bday I am glad to list 43 things I love about her. Here are a few more from an ongoing series of posts.

29. She is a leader.
28. She is smart and driven.
27. Responsible to the extreme.
26. She is fun to be around.

Here's my song for today's countdown...