It is finally over

I have had to make the move out of the Church of Christ I am standing at the door of limitless possibilities and yet all i want to do is take a break, just stay out of “organized gatherings” and just try to draw close to my God.  I have been eaten alive by wolves this past year because our place is run by business managers that are a take a number kind of a place that lets all problems get in their way.

I am praying for God’s will as we all should…

My Wife is a Strong Woman

Candy lyrics

This is some lyrics from a “Seventh day Slumber”  cd  it is a blessing and a curse that i have teens at home….some of the things that they get to hear would have really meant something to me growing up…..I encourage you to listen to some of this stuff…it still applies

So many nights wasted,
poisoning myself
Guess I just hated,
the emptiness I felt
To be excepted
you gotta look like they do
But you held your hand down
and took me just as I am

Your love’s like candy
oh like something
I’ve never tasted before
And you take me places
I never dreamed I could go

Oh I’ve been laughed at
and broken in two
And I’ve felt the wrath that
words of hate can do
Oh I’ve been stranded
and left standing in the rain
But you picked my head up
and carried me
away from this place

Your love’s like candy
like something
I’ve never tasted before
And you take me places
I never dreamed I could go
and where would I be
without you
where would I go
without you

last post

 i decided to delete my last post and think about what i had to say, i still believe that i can not get out the words that i want to say, but i have no problem comforting the people i love…..i just cannot formulate a good responce because i sometimes switch channels in the middle of what i am trying to say. 

I looooooooooove my wife

rr

A Woman who uses both hands.

I have been watching my wife work on some things in her life, I have seen God use friends, music and me.  I love how she says that she has both of her guys one on her left and one on her right.  I think my wedding band needs to symbolise my total trust and devotion…even at my best i cannot do as much as her right hand, God is at her right hand…(psalm 16:8 we got a gold band for her to wear that says “Stirred but not shaken”) but I think that is ok i need to devote my life to trying to make her left hand as strong as her right…it is truly an unobtainable goal but the fun is in the trying . I think too often i get busy building houses and having fun that sometimes i may make her think my right doesn’t know what the left is doing….

I want to make the two hands work together….it is a blessing to me in the end…..and she is such a blessing.  I love her way of trusting God as a child…i seem to try to barter and hold back control…

I love my wife.

rr

Barbarian couple

I don't know if i am clear on this, I hate to type. If I could buy one of those voice recognition deals that worked i would write all the time. I don't know I just can't seem to get things out on paper or whatever we call it.

I am wanting to leave the men's ministry and start a couples ministry at our community of believers i am sick and tired of the new thing being to spend time at "man church" I have grown much with the discussion that we have in the "men only" time but how does that help your wife when she wants to grow? I think we are trying to make men more on fire but lets save a trip and do couples at the same time. I don't want to be a part of that anymore.  I hope someone that is better then me will write a book to tell us all it is ok to be a "BARBARIAN COUPLE" bet the title alone would sell books.  

rr (i like my wife)

Lost in a sea of faces

a song by kutless 

 
I see the city lights all around me
Everyone's obscure
Ten million people each with their problems
Why should anyone care
 


And in Your eyes I can see
I am not just a man, vastly lost in this world
Lost in a

Sea of
Faces
Your body's the bread, Your blood is the wine
Because you traded Your life for mine
 


Sometimes my life it feels so trivial
Immersed in the greatness of space
Yet somehow you still find the time for me
It's then You show me Your love
 


And In Your eyes I can see
And in Your arms I will be
I am not just a man, vastly lost in this world
Lost in a

Sea of
Faces
Your body's the bread, Your blood is the wine
Because you traded Your life for mine
 


If only my one heart
Was all you'd gain from all it cost
Well I know you would have still been a man
With a reason
To willingly offer your life
 


I am not just a man, vastly lost in this world
Lost in a

Sea of
Faces
Your body's the bread, Your blood is the wine
Because you traded Your life for mine
 


Just one in a million faces

Copying my wifes post

I am currently reading a book called The Shaping of Things to Come by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch.  It has been a very challenging book to read.  I am a fast reader and usually work through a book quickly, but not this one.  This book requires the reader to slow down and digest a few pages before moving on.  

Here are some of my favorite parts so far:

  "We can no longer afford our historical sentimentality, even addiction, to the past.  Christendom is not the bibilcal mode of the church.  It was/is merely one way in which the church has conceived of itself.  In enshrining it as the sole form of the church, we have made it into an idol that has captivated our imaginations and enslaved us to a historical-cultural expression of the church.  We have not answered the challenges of our time precisely because we refuse to let go of the idol.  This must change! ….It will require that we adopt something that looks far more like the early church in terms of its conception of the church (ecclesiology) and its core task in the world (missiology)." – page 15

"How much of the traditional church's energy goes into adjustin gthier programs and their public meetings to cater to an unseen constituency?  If we get our seating, our parking, our children's program, our preaching, and our music right, they will come.  ….The missional church recognizes that it does not hold a plac eof honor in its host community and that its missional imperative compels it to move our from itself into that host community as salt and light." – page 19

"All the tinkering with the existing model of church that's going on will not save the day.  Simply making minor adjustments like replacing pews with more comfortable seating, or singing contemporary pop songs instead of hymns will not reverse the fundamental decline in the fortunes of the Western church… Or think of the church as a VCR.  If you have newer DVDs, you can't play them on your old VCR – you need an entirely different device." – pg 35

…good stuff.

Letter to the churches of the USA

I have been wondering what if Paul could write us a letter, what would he say about the church as a whole?  I know he would speak of unity about having a purpose that would accomplish all the things he was so adamant about.  I also think he would talk to us men about what we are to do and I wonder where sports would fit in, what about the role of the woman? would he say well if the man won't do it…..what ever it takes to teach others about the "good news". I get so frustrated when some don't want women to have a voice but all they do is whisper…..I think we should not read what he writes as to those other churches but to us and make sure we are one that would be praised for doing what we are commanded ….make the end result to glorify Jesus not bicker about small things and not do anything of value just look at the talent we were given and dig in the dirt as fast as we can so we can bury it before we are deprived of it…..what since does that make? We do that very thing, We were given this great thing but we don't have time to share it….no we have to be sure it won't offend anyone…..start working on your answer…..I hope i make mine good enough to pass…….. I like my wife rr