Now this is a greatr quote. It would be amazing to live your life with this kind of attitude.
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to slide in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'wow what a ride!!!'"
It may make your life a little shorter but it would be one heck of a good time.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Gurgles Away!!
So I am doing the message today, or sermon I guess you could call it but it sounds really formal and kinda toity when you say it that way. Anyway so now I am just burning time before people actually start showing up. Life is odd its like this crazy mess of activity then suddenly it just stops for a while. All I can here is the tick of my clock and the gurgle of the coffeepot. Some people like the sounds of nature I go for the sounds of caffeine, whatever cranks your turn I guess. Well people will be here soon better go wake up already, then again maybe it will go better if I just feel like it is one big daydream. Well peace guys love you.
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Thursday, November 24, 2005
Slacker???
I really am turning into a slacker. Not that I didn’t see it coming, I just didn’t feel like doing anything about it.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Sory Bobby.
Sorry bout the slaking what can I say I am both incredibly lazy and incredibly busy with those two combined I am lucky I even have clean underwear on (well mostly clean anyway)
The Ponoka Ministerial met again today they meet every two months so my last taste was in September. I both love going there and hate it. I love it because I get to sit around a table with like ten different pastors plus a few other youth workers and really try to dig in deep to a Bible passage. We are reading through Timothy 2 and they just have such amazing things to share. Everyone listens because for once they are not "the pastor’ in the room so they relax and don’t preach but just share in God’s word with their colleagues. I love to listen, especially to some of the older guys. It just seems that after thirty, forty, or more years in the ministry, and having that mantle of leadership and immersing themselves in the Holy Spirit’s leading they just have such a humility and wisdom that it absolutely blows my sock off. I love it!
Then there is these two ladies from the United Church and the Anglican church and they bring this pluralistic garbage to the table. They are Pastors who preach and actually insist upon the idea that Jesus is only one way to salvation (not to be confused with THE only way) and each person needs to find their own path. If that were true then apparently God sent His Son to die on the cross for absolutely no reason, no, I don’t think so. It just makes me sick. I am not one who likes to judge people or their beliefs, I don’t like to condemn people. But I have seen the sort of poison they are preaching and it is even killing parts of the ministerial, this great group of ministers whom truly just want to serve their Jesus. But this false gospel is causing them to back away from any sort of ecumenical gathering because they refuse to be associated with these two churches that pollute the true gospel. The Guys don’t want to be heavy handed and just toss these two out on their ear, because not only would it look incredibly sexist that a bunch of guys kick two women out of the ministerial. But also because what kind of image does that show to the community in fracturing the partnership of churches. It just makes me so sad and sick to my stomach.
Like they say "The truth is out there." Funny thing is it is probably sitting on your shelf at home may even be sitting on your coffee table right under your nose.
Peace guys, have fun.
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The Ponoka Ministerial met again today they meet every two months so my last taste was in September. I both love going there and hate it. I love it because I get to sit around a table with like ten different pastors plus a few other youth workers and really try to dig in deep to a Bible passage. We are reading through Timothy 2 and they just have such amazing things to share. Everyone listens because for once they are not "the pastor’ in the room so they relax and don’t preach but just share in God’s word with their colleagues. I love to listen, especially to some of the older guys. It just seems that after thirty, forty, or more years in the ministry, and having that mantle of leadership and immersing themselves in the Holy Spirit’s leading they just have such a humility and wisdom that it absolutely blows my sock off. I love it!
Then there is these two ladies from the United Church and the Anglican church and they bring this pluralistic garbage to the table. They are Pastors who preach and actually insist upon the idea that Jesus is only one way to salvation (not to be confused with THE only way) and each person needs to find their own path. If that were true then apparently God sent His Son to die on the cross for absolutely no reason, no, I don’t think so. It just makes me sick. I am not one who likes to judge people or their beliefs, I don’t like to condemn people. But I have seen the sort of poison they are preaching and it is even killing parts of the ministerial, this great group of ministers whom truly just want to serve their Jesus. But this false gospel is causing them to back away from any sort of ecumenical gathering because they refuse to be associated with these two churches that pollute the true gospel. The Guys don’t want to be heavy handed and just toss these two out on their ear, because not only would it look incredibly sexist that a bunch of guys kick two women out of the ministerial. But also because what kind of image does that show to the community in fracturing the partnership of churches. It just makes me so sad and sick to my stomach.
Like they say "The truth is out there." Funny thing is it is probably sitting on your shelf at home may even be sitting on your coffee table right under your nose.
Peace guys, have fun.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Ask who?
This weekend was the Asker Retreat. "What is the Asker Retreat?" you may ask. Well the Asker Retreat is a retreat held at Asker Lutheran Church. I know this does not entirely clarify what an asker actually is but it seems to be simply a word created for the soul purpose of naming a particular Lutheran Church.
The cool thing about the retreat is that it is completely planned and run by the youth of Asker. Of course there is some adult supervision and the parent s are a great help in cooking and such but for the most part it is all them. And what a fine job they did.
One of the things the speaker, Tyler Vold, spoke about was about walking on God’s path, that’s the path that God has set out for you, and though other peoples paths may come along side yours your path was the one that God made for you. As opposed to the path that we often try to make for ourselves. Or the path that others make, that we decide we would be better off to follow. It was a good weekend. I think it is important for us to take time to remember we have a specific calling on our lives that God has designed for us. I often act like Peter that when Jesus is explaining my calling to me I look around and ask "What about him?" Of course the answer is always "Mind you r own buisness, this path is for you." I think I get to often occupied with where others are in comparison to myself (as if there can be a comparison between their paths and mine that wind different directions). Or I get too focused on where my next turn is that I don’t enjoy where I am at now.
Just a friendly note that if your path leads to playing Cross Country Spoons with twelve youth like people who are much more nimble and quicker onto their feet than you. It is a good idea not to be lying in the spot between them and the door. No matter how big you are they can still step on you and knee you in the face and such. In fact if the past two experiences with the game have taught me anything it is that if you play with people much smaller than yourself it is almost guaranteed that someone, most likely yourself and someone else, is going to have some form of painful injury. Just a heads up this is by no means discouragement from playing the most excellent of card games.
Peace guys have fun.
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The cool thing about the retreat is that it is completely planned and run by the youth of Asker. Of course there is some adult supervision and the parent s are a great help in cooking and such but for the most part it is all them. And what a fine job they did.
One of the things the speaker, Tyler Vold, spoke about was about walking on God’s path, that’s the path that God has set out for you, and though other peoples paths may come along side yours your path was the one that God made for you. As opposed to the path that we often try to make for ourselves. Or the path that others make, that we decide we would be better off to follow. It was a good weekend. I think it is important for us to take time to remember we have a specific calling on our lives that God has designed for us. I often act like Peter that when Jesus is explaining my calling to me I look around and ask "What about him?" Of course the answer is always "Mind you r own buisness, this path is for you." I think I get to often occupied with where others are in comparison to myself (as if there can be a comparison between their paths and mine that wind different directions). Or I get too focused on where my next turn is that I don’t enjoy where I am at now.
Just a friendly note that if your path leads to playing Cross Country Spoons with twelve youth like people who are much more nimble and quicker onto their feet than you. It is a good idea not to be lying in the spot between them and the door. No matter how big you are they can still step on you and knee you in the face and such. In fact if the past two experiences with the game have taught me anything it is that if you play with people much smaller than yourself it is almost guaranteed that someone, most likely yourself and someone else, is going to have some form of painful injury. Just a heads up this is by no means discouragement from playing the most excellent of card games.
Peace guys have fun.
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