the week in tweets – 2009-08-29

  • @T1545 – that must mean the Summer is over? in reply to T1545 #
  • @eLP88 – make charlie cook for you. he needs to learn his place 🙂 #
  • and for the 3rd night in a row it appears that i will not be able to sleep – woohoo!?!?!? #
  • Involvement in the community is a kingdom growth strategy not a church growth strategy – from #leadnet playing at the moment. #
  • Trying to read a commentary on Ephesians & listen to #leadnet talk radio at the same time is not a very good idea. Time for ambient music? #
  • Free Chic-Fila by joining here http://www.chickenwave.com/. You can thank me later. http://bit.ly/MkcqW #
  • Old men in biker shorts isn't really a good look, even we the old men actually are bikers. #
  • @natebyrd3 – there are other options available. i wear mine under a pair of running shorts. in reply to natebyrd3 #
  • “Win a 2 TB External hard drive filled with Design Resources– From @MediaMilitia and @Bittbox” – http://tinyurl.com/mvsher #
  • "Save 2nd Base" made me truly Laugh Out Loud. http://bit.ly/dAnPK #
  • @schuchmann – i find the whole asking people to be a fan of individuals or organizations weird anyhow. things worth it don't have to ask. in reply to schuchmann #
  • @exchangedliving – i'm definitely a little jealous of you eating at canes. in reply to exchangedliving #
  • Anybody have a fantasy football league that is looking for an additional person? #
  • @natebyrd3 – what, i'm the guy that doesn't display his junk to the world?@natebyrd3 in reply to natebyrd3 #
  • I have a love/hate relationship with Word Biblical Commentaries. I love the parts I understand & hate how stupid I feel at the other parts. #

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the green circle

the point area has the green circle trail and as a runner i am eternally thankful for all the people who established and maintain it. the trails are amazing. it is a nice, soft surface that runs along side the wisconsin and plover rivers. anyhow i love it.

SIDE NOTE – i like to get diet coke refills instead of new drinks. i figure they are not only cheaper (which is something i like) but also more environmentally friendly. the other day i was surprised when i went to the bp store that has the cheapest refills in the point area. the surprised occurred when i pulled the lid off of the cup i had brought from my car into the store. as i pulled the lid and straw off of the cup a very angry yellow jacket suddenly flew out of it. there really is no cool way to respond to the shock of a yellow jacket coming out of your cup aiming to attack you. i’m afraid that my scream and sudden rush away from the diet coke loving, stinger bearing, ticked off insect was not received well by the store’s staff or my fellow customers. they also didn’t seem very happy with the mad yellow jacket that i left with them as i decided to leave the store. i guess for a few weeks i’ll now be going to another place for my daily diet coke.

SIDE SIDE NOTE – i watched this video of one of ryan hall’s marathon work outs and his discussion of the term ole’. hall is a beast and the video is quite cool. adam and i ended up making a video on my response to the hall video.

SIDE SIDE SIDE NOTE – there is one benefit to not being a youth minister when you’re kids are both involved in a youth ministry – wednesdays become date night.

a few random thoughts

RANDOM THOUGHT #1 – in doing some of the required reading for my next d.min seminar, “doctrinal foundstions,” it was cool to run across jurgen moltmann as one of the most significant theologians of the 20th century and then to realize that i’ll be listening to him and stand a good chance of meeting him in three weeks.

RANDOM THOUGHT #2 – tapestry was amazing tonight. it started off with mike describing how the community of tapestry had acted like the church to them this past week and then got better after that. when everyone started talking about mercy and dealing with specific situations i found myself once again loving the community of faith that i get to be a part of.

RANDOM THOUGHT #3 – tapestry poker is at my house monday at 6:30 p.m. it’s a $3 buy in and all the proceeds go to support a kid through world vision.

RANDOM THOUGHT #4 – i start painting the house this week. i almost believe that pam’s whole back injury was just a ruse to get her out of painting.

RANDOM THOUGHT #5 – this blog seems to be a merely feeder for facebook content now. all the comments i receive come from facebook and not the blog. i wish i could get my stupid wordpress/facebook comment pulgin working so it would join the blog & facebook comments.

the week in tweets – 2009-08-22

  • say it ain't so brett! i had kept faith in you until this. #
  • thanks to ebay tapestry now has a new projector for cheaper than a new bulb would have cost for our broken one. #
  • @fuelshane -and yet JESUS is probably a linux-guy 🙂 in reply to fuelshane #
  • @joshuajones – what? you saying it isn't true? btw, that's awesome. in reply to joshuajones #
  • I just finished being in a meeting that had its minutes typed before it ever started and I was typed in as present before I ever showed up. #
  • I'm about to go mushrooming!!!!! The good edible type, not the psychotropic type. #
  • I just entered a meeting that has its minutes already typed and I was listed as present before I had even arrived. #
  • the mushrooms turned out not to be edible (they were too far along the process). too bad. #
  • Just saw #GIJoe with Noah. I'm not sure what I was expecting from it but I know it was something more than that. #
  • @dhaltom7 – is this the court reporter test? #
  • @dhaltom7 – that's great too in reply to dhaltom7 #
  • WOOHOO! We have a storm moving in. I love storms. #
  • @joshuajones – i'm a little jealous. i love OTR in reply to joshuajones #
  • Just finished the first Halo LAN party I've been to in two years – Difference is as a Youth Minister I would have had to provide the snacks. #
  • @eLP88 – what's the new phase? #
  • I just bought a perfect weber grill for $10 & a miniweber for $5. I now have 3 weber grills! #
  • @eLP88 – wow, really? in reply to eLP88 #
  • I've never needed to buy poker chips before – What exactly am I supposed to look for in these things? #
  • I'm very pumped because today I found out we have a former shepherd who is a part of Tapestry – I love the church I am a part of. #
  • @dhaltom7 – yep exactly like an actual "sheep" shepherd in reply to dhaltom7 #
  • @HeyMrsNorman – you're not that old. 🙂 in reply to HeyMrsNorman #
  • packer man is about to go running – AKA kelly green shorts & a bright yellow shirt. #

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youth ministry & church

i could make this a long post but i’m not going to. i just thought i would quickly say that good church and good youth ministry often resemble each other. i think you can take a good youth ministry model (not the stupid ra-ra stuff) and use it to make a JESUS loving, life & community changing church. i would lump college ministry in on this also. i don’t really think you can do that with any of type of ministry. no buddy ever says “why can’t church be more like choir” or at least i’ve never been around anyone who said that. i would say you could do it with senior adult ministry but they are usually too busy going on trips to branson to start a church. 🙂

i think the reason for this are because good youth ministry usually embodies the things that a church should embody – loving one another, loving others, loving GOD, etc.

SIDE NOTE – has anyone ever used a camcorder as a document camera/presenter? i’m think of using an old camcorder as a document projector to see if i would like using one during tapestry. i figure i’ll test it out before looking into buying an elmo or something similar.

tapestry poker

i’m not a huge fan of poker. i don’t really have anything against it. i don’t think it is evil or anything like that. it’s just that i prefer hearts. still i love hanging out with threads and we have a fair number of guys in tapestry who love poker. so we’ve started playing poker on monday nights as a part of our monday night guys bible study. of course, being tapestry we’ve done it slightly different. everyone agrees that poker without money behind it is stupid. poker just isn’t fun without a loss or a gain. still, we don’t want to hinder anyone who might have a gambling problem. so we’ve decided that the game is limited to a $3 buy in and what we are playing for is the tax contribution credit. all the money will be used to support a kid through world vision and the winner of each week’s game is the one whose name the contribution is made under. that way the winner still gets something but there is no way that we can contribute to anyone’s gambling problem because no matter what everyone in the room on monday nights is walking away with $3 less.

i like the way we do things.

SIDE NOTE – my evil plan has been accomplished. pam really doesn’t like oprah. it’s a long story but the short version is that oprah just gets her goat. anyhow i found a free 6 month subscription to oprah’s magazine on lifehacker.com and now pam is subscribed to it. off course, pam didn’t know it until the magazine showed up in our mail box. it might not be funny to you but it made me laugh 🙂
my evil plan

church work day

one of the things i like the most about tapestry not having a building (besides the obvious one of it constantly reinforcing to everyone that the church is not a building) is the fact that it redefines what some churches call “church work days.”

a lot of churches have these. it’s a day were all the church members are asked to come and work on the church building – cleaning it, improving it, maintaining it, etc. i don’t really have anything against them except for the fact that it is yet another day where resources (time, energy, money) are focus on a building instead of on people. it’s easy not to do this when you don’t have a church building to work on 🙂

instead, when we have a “church work day” it involves helping one of the threads. saturday, august 22nd is such a day. jan r. is moving into her new home. starting at 10 am some of us are going to help her move. i personally hate moving myself but for some strange reason i love moving other people – yes, i know that makes no sense.