New Favorite Car

In my contacts on the LP sight one of the questions asked was:

If you were given a car of your choice what would yours be:

I said:

Koenigsegg CCX

I have since changed my mind. The Bugatti Veyron is now it. And if you watch the video, you will see why! Oh and by the way, you can own one of these beauties for a mere 850,000 British Pounds or $1,650,023.44 U.S. Dollars!

Oh and one more thing. For all this money you get a car that has a 16 cylinder engine with 4 turbochargers that produce 1001hp. Of course it also requires 10 radiators. At 253 mph, the tires only last about 15 minutes, but that’s o.k., the gas will run out in 12.

John 9

Jesus Heals a Blind Man

Jesus and His disciples were walking along when they came across a man who had be blind from birth. Now the common belief back them was that he was blind because of some sin of his own or some sin of the parents. But Jesus tells them that he was born blind so that the power of God could be seen in him. It’s easy to sit back and ask God “why me?” instead of asking God for strength and clarity. We cannot deal with everything alone we should  instead turn to God because only He has the power help us through these things. And so Jesus bent down, made some mud out of dirt and some of His spit, put it on the blind mans eyes and told him to go wand wash it off in the pool of Siloam. The man does this and through another of Jesus’ miracles, the man can now see. After this happens he is immediately brought before the Jewish leaders and asked all sorts of questions about Jesus. More like interrogated. He hears the same questions over and over again until the Jewish leaders cursed him and threw him out.

Key verse: The they cursed him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.”

This whole event right there parallels what can go on in a lot of our Christian lives. We can get questioned, cursed, mocked, persecuted. We may lose friends or at the very most, we may even lose our lives because we are disciples of Christ. But we must keep in mind that through all of that, they can never take the gift Jesus gives us, and that is eternal life.

My Prayer: Lord, Reading about this man really is inspiring. This man was cursed by the Jewish leaders, bore their intense scrutiny and yet he never backed down or shied away from his devotion to You. I pray that You can give me the same strength, and determination to do the same when it happens in my life. Amen.

Lost post.

A wonderful thing happened to me just recently. I read John chapter 7, which really hit home for me, and then I get online start to write up my blog on it, ran out of time to finish it, so I figured I would save it and finish it later. Yeah, not happening. I log back in to finish it up, can’t find it. Its completely gone. I am not a happy camper. I will continue to search or just rewrite it.

!!!! This just in!!!! I found it!!!! It was saved under manage on my dashboard. Whew!!! I was just looking for it in my regular dashboard. D’OH!

John 5

The man at the well in Bethesda.

When Jesus returns to Jerusalem, he sees a man lying by the pool. Now when Jesus sees him He knows how long he had been ill and been laying by the pool for a chance to be healed by the waters. He can’t get into the pool himself, and no one will come to help him when the water is stirred up. It seems to be pretty hopeless for this man. Until Jesus came and healed him. Right then, he got up a was able to walk.

Key Verse: Jesus told him, Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up the mat and began walking!

In the entire time this man was beside the pool looking and waiting for an attempt to be healed, he was never able to get in the pool. And no one ever bothered to help this man. It all seemed pretty hopeless, but that is where Jesus came in to his life, much like our own lives. We all have things in our lives that paralyze us, or just make us feel completely trapped and hopeless at times, but God is there to help us to overcome these things. He may even have a plan for us to use our experience to help others through the same things, and to also spread God’s glory. And that is a very comforting thing.

My prayer: Lord, I have been through some really rough patches in my life and at times they have seemed pretty hopeless, and I am incredibly thankful that you were in my life to help me get through them. I know that there are a lot of people around that are also going through a time in their lives that also seem pretty hopeless, I pray that they come and seek You out, and that can know that it’s not as hopeless as it may seem. That through you all things are possible. Amen.

John 4

This is the chapter we find Jesus speaking with the Samaritan woman by Jacob’s well. This in and of itself is a big deal since at this time, Jews refused to have anything to do with Samaritans. Even His disciples, when they returned, were astonished He was talking to her. So it is no surprise that the Samaritan woman was completely taken aback that Jesus was even talking to her. Jesus during this conversation with the Samaritan woman, talks about the Living Water that He offers. “People are soon thirsty again after drinking this water. “But the water I give them takes away thirst altogether. It becomes a perpetual spring within them, giving them eternal life.” He tells her to go and get her husband, but she tells Him that she has no husband, but He already knows this and continues on and goes into detail about her life. Eventually revealing to her that He is the Messiah. After this conversation with Jesus, she truly comes to realize who he is and just drops everything and goes to bring more people and shout to anyone she can about Jesus. Which brings me to what, to me, is the key verse.

Key verse: “Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Vast fields are ripening all around us and are ready now for the harvest.” Jesus made this point just by talking to the Samaritan woman. Just by the fact that when his disciples returned and were surprised He was talking to her, makes me think that they may not have talked to her about Jesus. Just because of who she was. Christians at times make excuses as to why we don’t talk to people about Christ. Things like, “I don’t really know what to say”, or ” What if I don’t have all the answers”, or “What will they think of me” or even “They are not ready to to believe”. Jesus makes it very clear that there are people all around us just waiting to hear God’s word, that is the harvest just waiting to be reaped.

My prayer: Lord, I know I sometimes fall into this category of making excuses, where the opportunity to talk about You comes up, but I think of a dozen reasons to keep my mouth shut. I pray that each time this opportunity arises, I grab it and do my best to share Christ with others. I pray that not just for me, but for anyone who struggles with this that they may find the strength and the means to spread Your word and Your glory to others who are just waiting to hear about You. They are all around us, we just need to reap the harvest. Amen.

Absence

I must say this has been an extremely busy month for me. I have missed out on several Fridays this month and it doesn’t look to get any better for a couple more weeks. It just seems that everything that needs to get done apparently needs to get done on a Friday night!

The weekend of Jan. 13th, that was the weekend I went through my E.M.T. refresher course so that I can get recertified as an E.M.T. (My certification expired Jan. 1st, I kinda had to get it done.) So I thought, great, one Friday, not the end of the world, but, still, I do miss LP when I am not there no matter what I am doing. I can’t wait to be there next Friday! ummmm…. yeah, apparently that wasn’t going to happen either.

I get a call that following Monday that there was to be an officers meeting on , of course, Friday night! Ok, make that 2 weeks in a row. Not the end of the world again, I will just be back next Friday. (Man do I miss LP, and all the people!)

Sigh, two days later I get an e-mail, apparently we are trying out a new bass player for the CT Christian Academy Sweetheart banquet and private auction. Guess which day….FRIDAY!!!!! UGHHHH, am I ever going to able to get back to LP again?!?!?! Ok, we’ll get this tryout done and then I can go back to Friday night LP. Right?

WRONG!!!!!!

Now we are going to have practices the next TWO Fridays until the banquet. I know I miss a lot when I miss one Friday night, but now I will be missing 6! I will be at LP however on the First Sunday of the month, and then, following the Feb. 9th banquet, from there on out. I look forward to it!

Leaders night out!

Ok, since I have been getting a lot of flak for not having a blog and not posting on it, here it goes.

The sad truth of the matter is I really do not have a whole lot of time to organize and write down my thoughts, and they probably would not be an interesting read anyway.

All that nonsense aside, I must comment on the last couple of nights. First was the leaders dinner and evening out together. I must send out a huge thank you for the dinner to Mike, it was really awesome and much appreciated. It was great to hang out with the other LP leaders outside of LP. It’s something I hope we get to do more often. (Especially if Mike is buying!) After the dinner we all went to Wallingford for some indoor cart racing. Man was that a blast! We all had 8 minutes (which did seem like forever) around the track after a short briefing on driving the cars and what the flags mean and Zzzzzz…. let’s just race!!!! Donny ended up blowing everyone away around the track, (way to go Donny!) with Mike right behind him and myself right behind Mike. Not bad for an old man! Big thanks for the photographers taking our pictures as well, since we will all have something to remember it with now. But after all the racing and the food, it was really great just to fellowship with the other leaders. Rob you were really missed.

Tonight, however, was another Friday night at LP and it was really amazing!!! The message was unbelievable and it was awesome to watch God work in the hearts of the LP students. It was a really moving evening. I am not sure I can look at Christmas quite the same way. For me personally, Christmas hasn’t really been about presents for quite a while, but never took it into consideration about His presence. It really does smack you right between the eyes don’t it? Afterwards quite a few of us went out for a late night “snack”. (Ok dinner) I got to hang out with some of the leaders again, (although sadly, Mike was NOT buying this time.) plus we were able to hang out with some of the students, past and present. Great times catching up with those that have graduated from LP and getting to know present students even better.

Well, I better end this incoherent rambling as it is getting rather late. (See, this is why I don’t blog.) For those of you who made it to the end of this(WOW, you really must be bored!)……I know this will be a couple of minutes of your life you will never get back!

Go Seagulls!!!

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