Boy Did I Have Some Fun....

Go and check this bike out!

Help I Cant Read...

I am stealing this post from someone else...Is Google Making Us Stupid?


Here is my take on it:

1. I as a Pastor rarely ever use a bible...WHAT!...yep cause all my bibles (8 different versions) are in my laptop and phone.

2. Every sermon i have ever written is in my phone and laptop.

3. ideas for sermons are in my phone and laptop.

4. notes from the last 6 years of listening to Mac, Lynne, or any other preacher are in my phone and laptop. I still have notes from the prior years laying around and have plans of scanning them into the puter!

I do all this because it makes my study time much easier...however i have found that i have a hard time reading books...i can sit down and make myself do it but i have found myself thinking "man if i just scan this thing into my computer..."

Have we all become to reliant on tech to make it thru the day?

Not to sure what to think of this...

I usually am a pretty reserved person when it comes to new stuff I tend to be of the mindset that I am going to sit back and watch it for awhile to see the fruit of it...and this is one of those "not to sure things".

Three Gooooooobers

My three goobers...wow do i love them. I have a love hate relationship with going to open houses and here is why. I love seeing all the kidos that Kelly and I have known thru church all grown up and ready to move on in life. We talk about how we remember them being gangly and awkward in Jr. High and are now having children of there own!

Then it hits me that these three will be doing the same thing at some point in the mere future.

I am excited for the three of them and yet sad for me...cause i will miss them the way they are right now.

Ohhh well!

SOOOO THANKFUL...

Really thankful for the folks in this picture. Steve you are the man and I am very thankful for you being in my life. Gwen thank you for all you do for me!

Mom and Dad you are the best...I am so thankful for all that you put in my life!

A Week With My Wife...

Got to spend a week in Florida with my wife and I think we had fun. Swam at the pool, and tried to do allot of nothing.



We did get to feed these little fellas...which was fun!


I love my kidos...let me just say that to start off. However i married my wife and in about 16 years all the kidos will be gone (connor is 2 and by 18 or so will be out of the house). I really don't want to look across the table and wonder who this person is sharing my house!

So Kelly and I made the decision a while ago...as hard as it may be...to leave the kids every few years and go do something just the two of us. It has been a blast I am continually reminded why I married her.



As you can tell however she is not the best influance on me...she did some sort of pirate thing and got us throw in the stocks!















And Kelly proved just how salty she is by catching this bad boy!

Parrot Time...so sorry but i just want to repeat this one!

This is from Joseph Prince...

The Strength To ‘Go And Sin No More’

John 8:11

11… “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

Imagine you were there at the temple when the woman caught in adultery was brought before Jesus by the scribes and Pharisees. Would you have expected Jesus to condemn her for her sin? Maybe you would have been surprised to hear Him say, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” (John 8:7) After all, she was caught in the very act of adultery.

Jesus, the only one in the crowd who truly had the power to condemn her would not. If you had eavesdropped on their conversation after the crowd had left, you would have heard Him ask her, “Woman… Has no one condemned you?” (John 8:10)

He spoke such words of grace to her because He loved her. Also, by asking her the question, He was giving her a chance to speak words of no condemnation to herself — “No one [condemns me], Lord.” (John 8:11)

Jesus not only spoke words of grace to her, He also gave her the gift of no condemnation — “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

Could He do that? She did commit a serious sin. Had God gone soft on sin and compromised His holy standards? Of course not! Jesus could say that to her because He knew that He would be punished for her sins on the cross. He was therefore able to give her the gift of no condemnation.

Today, you have the gift of no condemnation because the Son of God was condemned for all your sins. (Romans 8:1) God cannot condemn you when you sin because He is faithful and just to what His Son has done.

But we still find people saying, “Go and sin no more first, and then I won’t condemn you.” But God says, “I don’t condemn you. Go and sin no more.” God gives you the gift of no condemnation, so that you will have the strength to go and sin no more!

Where i wanna go...

I found this picture on the AeroStich website...and my only thought is man i wanna ride there on my bike...on a missions trip

and yes I am pretty sure I know what the three names say:
From left to right...
Yekaterinburg
Moscow
Saint-Petersburg

Looks like fun :)

Had a great ride down to Arkansas with a couple of friends Caps (lance), Chef (paul), and Sassage (Josh). As well as the crew we met at the HUB in Dog Patch...yes there is a place with such a name. Took Thursday 5.15.08 to ride to KC and the boys went out for Blues and Bar-b-Que and i went to my sisters house and hung out with the girls...good times!

Friday 5.14.08 we took our time getting into AR and went on some fun rodes (the stuff I grew up on)...then went to Crawdad Days in Harrison.

Sat. 5.15.08 great day riding around the Ozarks

Sun. 5.16.08 busted it home...Josh left us in KC and we made the rest of the trip home!

1869 miles round trip, used 49 gallons of gas (cost 175.74 not to shabby for that many miles!) which comes out to 38 miles to the gallon...not bad for an overall average!

Spent 32 hours and 1 minute moving...yes i am a dork but that is some of the info the GPS gives you i will resist the urge to post the rest.

For more pics go here

5.12.2008 How Do You See Jesus?

I am being a parrot...I did not write this Joseph Prince did and there is no reason for me to try to rewrite it so here it is...

Luke 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, He marvelled at him, and turned around and said to the crowd that followed Him, “I say to you, I have not found such great faith…

The way you see Jesus, the revelation that you have of Him, will not affect God’s acceptance of you. But it will affect your acceptance of what God has for you. It will affect how you receive from Him.

Consider the Roman centurion who told Jesus, “You don’t have to come to my house. Just speak the word and my servant at home will be healed.” (Luke 7:6–7) Compare him with Jairus, the ruler of a synagogue, who told Jesus, “My daughter is dying. Please come to my house and lay Your hands on her, and she shall live.” (Mark 5:22–23)

Do you know that Jesus does not have to go to your house to heal you? So why did Jesus follow Jairus to his house? He had to come down to Jairus' level of faith. Jairus believed that his daughter could be healed, but only if Jesus came and laid His hands on her.

The centurion was different. He said, “Lord, You don’t have to come to my house. I know who You are.” This centurion believed that Jesus didn’t have to come to his house for his servant to be healed. He believed that Jesus only needed to speak the word. He said to Jesus, “Just speak the word and my servant at home will be healed.”

Do you know who Jesus is? The centurion had a greater understanding of who Jesus was than Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, and he wasn’t even a Jew!

Jesus asked his disciples, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” (Mark 4:40) He even remarked, “O you of little faith.” (Matthew 6:30) But to the woman with the issue of blood, He said, “O woman, great is your faith!” (Matthew 15:28) And to the centurion, He declared, “I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!” (Luke 7:9)

My desire is for you to have an accurate understanding of who Jesus is because when your revelation of Jesus is big, you will know what has been freely given to you. And when you know what is yours in Christ Jesus, you will be rich in all things!

useless info...

Alaska- Based on an Aleut word "alaxsxaq" literally meaning

"object toward which the action of the sea is directed" or

more simply "the mainland".

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Nebraska- Name based on an Oto Indian word that means

"flat water," referring to the Platte River.

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Kansas- From the Sioux Indian for "south wind people"

Betcha don't know who this is...

Quote...

"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."
Henry Ford

Marks of a True Winner

Hot or Cold, But Not Lukewarm

by Mac Hammond

When it comes to winning in life, are you hot, cold, or somewhere in between? A famous preacher was known for saying, "I've come to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." What's so wrong with being comfortable? Revelation, chapter three says, "I wish you were either cold or hot, but you are neither, you are lukewarm."

When you're cold, you at least are aware that you need heat. But when you're only lukewarm, you're in danger of becoming satisfied with the status quo. Check your temperature today. If you're lukewarm and comfortable, start heating up your passion for winning God's way.

Born again to serve 3.31.2008

Here is a quote from Kathryn Kuhlman “The goal of every Christian, every born-again man and woman, should be helping. God’s children are born to serve. That’s what Jesus did.” This statement really hit me and got me to thinking. One of the big things I have been praying for is revival, not only for me but for the church as a whole. And in that I really am looking for a move of the spirit…seeing the nine gifts of the Holy Ghost in operation. People coming out of wheelchairs, deaf and dumb being released and made whole, blind eyes opening and the likes…this has been at the heart of my prayer for revival.

This is the reason I made the point to pick up her book and go thru it. Here is a wonderful woman who was used by God to introduce a generation to the Holy Ghost. And when he shows up…so do his works. So my thought was “if you want to hit like Joe DiMaggio then study up on how he hit”. I really do want to see the move of the Holy Ghost in these last days and I will leave it at that.

The first chapter I read hits me with the above mentioned quote and I get to thinking. There is a rule in scripture and it is the law of first mention. What it basically gets at is that when we see God interact with someone or do something for the first time it sets a precedent for what is to come. What happens the first time Jesus performs a miracle? Who gets healed? What great thing does he do?

John 2:1-11 He makes water into wine…he serves at a wedding? No one is healed, set free, delivered, and made whole. No one receives their sight, no missing limbs come back, no one told to pick up his bed and walk! His first miracle was to serve people. We want to be used by God and then we he comes and asks us to move chairs or love the unlovely we walk away and complain that someone “used” us. He did what others where asking of Him, seems like good prep because He always said that He did His Fathers work and not His own.

I want to see the power of God in operation however tonight I was gently reminded that it is not about me and seeing revival. It is about them…us who need the help, the help that only the Holy Ghost can offer! So my purpose is to keep on serving and giving because I am born-again and I was born for a greater purpose…to be poured out of!

Remember giving leads to compassion and compassion is what Jesus was moved by. Mat 14:14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. Giving leads to and opens the door of love which is what the Holy Ghost flows thru…a vessel of love!

Just a Few More....what is going on outside

Well my just a few more days and i can ride seems to be held off by the falling white stuff...i feel as though the chicken was right...it is the end of the world!

Not really just want the snow to go!

Looking for more of this sort of thing to be in the future.

Just a Few More Days...

Wooohooo just a few more days of nice weather and...its time to ride!

Oh What A Day....

This little fella is Connor of the Shirley clan...he is the last child of three that Kelly and I have had the privalege of calling our own!

As you can imagine being the last one he tries to keep up with everyone else. So to my story of today...I start by going into his room this morning to find a naked connor (he did go to bed clothed) with a poopy diaper sitting there. Aparently he did not like the diaper being on and decided he would take care of it himself.

Next for the day Kelly took Colton and my mom and dad to the store with her and Connor and I stayed home so he could take a nap...yes he did wake up half naked but thank God diaper was still on. I proceeded to get him ready to head out with me to meet the others for lunch. Went out and started the Suburban and moved it out into the driveway and tried to come back in the house to grab the young one only to find to my horror he had locked the door on me!!

I have gone thru alot of crazy scary stuff in my time like being shot at hunting, to being shot with a blow gun in the face by a friend and bleeding like there is no tomorrow, to dislocating my shoulders. But this takes the cake on the level of crazy stuff...I was ready to kick in the door after 10 minutes of trying to get in when in one last effort i felt lead to try the handle one more time...and clunk! she popped open.

needless to say there are now a set of keys hiding outside ;)

Time for Change

I am tired of the snow...i will be honest i have ridden in below freezing weather (last year thru chief Joes pass) but when there is ice on the road...not good for the two wheels.

I want it to warm up...so i can ride!

Wow this is too true!

God uses ordinary people who are obedient to Him to do
extraordinary things.
--John Maxwell