On Your Mark…Get Set…
I think we are ready. I’ve got suitcases, boarding passes, contracts, caffeine, and books to occupy time. Today is the first of 30 dates Shaun and I will spend together traveling, sleeping, eating, and soft rocking. He will do most of the soft rocking, I’ll just watch… and wonder what it is that I forgot to do.
On Fire
“Petra’s new album, On Fire!, is about spiritual revival and renewal. it’s a manual that challenges the young Christian to be ablaze with the consuming fire of total love for God. On Fire! teaches and applies intense devotion to God. Your life will be changed in these ways as you allow the message of On Fire! to burn in your heart.” -Guide To Petra.com
This was the first tape I ever bought, with my own money and considered “my music”. What was your first tape?
Jesus Tree
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
Man-made religious decorations are a common sight at this time of year, but the image on a tree in an Arlington woman’s front yard is natural. Some neighbors are calling it a holy tree.
Neighbors near Darlene Brooks’ Arlington home said a tree in her yard bears the image of Jesus. The likeness has created a buzz in the neighborhood and has many residents at a loss for words.
“I see the face, eyes, and you can see the crown,” said one neighbor….”
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It’s The End Of The World… Again
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) — Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a “mass killing” late in 2007.
“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
“The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”
Robertson said God told him about the impending tragedy during a recent prayer retreat.
God also said, he claims, that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.
Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to the Palestinians.
The broadcaster predicted in January 2004 that President Bush would easily win re-election.
Bush won 51 percent of the vote that fall, beating Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
In 2005 Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his second term. He said Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate conservative judges to federal courts.
Lawmakers confirmed Bush’s 2005 nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But the president’s Social Security initiative was stalled.
“I have a relatively good track record,” he said. “Sometimes I miss.”
In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America’s coastline in 2006.
Even though the U.S. was not hit with a tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring’s heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.” CNN.com
(HT:JB)
MSN Artist Of The Year
David Crowder Band.
“They’ve single-handedly redefined what contemporary Christian music should sound like … and earned your vote for 2006′s artist of the year.” – MSN.com
**This is a bigger deal when you know who they were up against. Prince, INXS, Kenny Chesney, and Christina Aguilera.**
Congratulations Guys.
"I Have My Own Personal Jesus"
“I have my own personal, Jesus, that I have worked with exclusively for over ten years”
I have no idea what this painting means, but I met the artist a few months ago at a summer festival. This painting was hanging behind him and was about fifteen feet tall and probably ten feet wide. I realized how much I was learning about sinners as I looked at the current state of this “bad guy’s” life in this painting. He is covered in tattoo’s, he drinks alcohol, he smokes cigarettes, he shoots heroine into Jesus, he plays poker, he is about to sniff something, he owns a gun, and he has apparently killed someone and kept their head on his folding table for quite some time. My favorite depiction of the “bad guy” here is of course the nun-chucks hanging on the door. Now that is a sinner. Anyone who readily has nun-chucks hanging on his front door has got to be one tough guy. Not to mention the filthy hand print on the door. Sinners don’t wash their hands either.
A friend I was with asked the painter if he used models when painting the people in his art. The artist leaned arrogantly over the table right into my friends face and said, “I have my own, personal, Jesus, that I have worked with exclusively for ten years.”
“Okay”, and we walked away.
Although, after doing some further research, it appears that Jesus has tattoo’s also. Including this one here, clearly gotten during his time spent in the Navy, in honor of his Father.
