I mispell things!
i don’t like thomas kinkade’s paintings (at least all of the ones that i have seen). i do however love this interpretation of his work. just when i thought nothing could make could make me like his style of painting someone went and painted a godzilla attack in kinkade’s style. awesome.
the above photo shows what i saw tonight while preaching tonight at tapestry every time i looked over at the area where noah and his friend were sitting. earlier this week they bought a few fake mustaches and decided they would each wear their last ones for church this sunday. it was pretty funny. some might find it distracting but i disagree. i just thought it was funny.
SIDE NOTE – some of his humor today led to pam punching him. during the message, which was on JESUS clearing the temple (mark 1:15-19), i asked why the “women’s court” was named the “women’s court” (obviously it was because it was where the women could go). noah’s response? he said, “because that was where the kitchen was.” pam made sure to remind him that he had not given the correct answer.
apparently there is a robert terrell in england who works in some type of retail store and there is a robert terrell in new york who is some how involved in hip hop music. the reason i know this is because they also apparently both have email addresses that are close to mine. i keep getting email messages that are meant for them. yesterday i received a request to change shifts with someone in england and a different request from a radio dj for 20 cds of my music. the good news is that the dj promised me that he would get my music a significant amount of air play. i’m pretty excited about my future success in hip hop. you all know how gangsta i am. even better news is that while i wait for my hip hop career to take off i will also have a steady job in england taking people’s shifts when they need a break.
this summer tapestry did one community bible experience (cbe). cbe is a thing started by biblica when they had the great idea of encouraging people to read big, read in context, and read together. so they came up with a new testament that has no chapter or verse numbers and rearranged the books of the bible in such a way that they are easier to read in context (i.e. the gospel of john is read right before reading the epistles of and revelation to john). you read about 10 pages a day, five days a week, and in eight weeks you have read the entire new testament. each week we would get together as a group and just talk about what hit us. i have read the new testament more times than i can remember and i was amazed at what i picked up in the straight read through and i was incredibly thankful for what i learned from hearing and discussing with everyone else in the group each week.
so we are going to do it again in the fall. my goal is to start 2 to 3 groups this time. interested? no someone who might be interested? it really is an incredibly experience.
i meant to post the above photo about a month ago but i kind of forgot. it is from the last time that tapestry provided the weekly meal for place of peace. we provide a meal and more importantly eat with everyone that comes for the thursday night meal once every three months. the shirt above is the result of being in the kitchen on july 5th. it was miserably hot. pam said that i should take a photo because this is probably the most she has ever seen me sweat in my life when i wasn’t doing something physical. i don’t usually sweat a great deal. actually i sweat a little but it is almost all on my eyebrow. its weird but how it works. anyhow, i have been sweating a good bit this summer.
wisconsin summers are not supposed to be like this. it is one of the things that we love about being in the mid west. i’m not sure what happened this summer.
SIDE NOTE – the goatee was pretty long on this day. i like it.
a few notes on my day:
the second of five thread weddings took place this past weekend. jesse & amanda were married this past saturday. it was a great time. they had obviously put a great deal of work into the day and i personally thought it showed. of course, it was also pam and my wedding anniversary so i am a little partial to the day. we have been married 22 years. pam and i have now been officially married half our lives. it has worked out pretty well for me and i think it will work out great for jesse & amanda too.
pam and i made a weekend of it and ate at a couple of wonderful local restaurants (the mona lisa restaurant & the nucleus cafe). both had excellent food (though the service at the mona lisa lacked a little). the photo to the right is of pam’s nutella crepe at the nucleus. mhmmm. part of the fun of the weekend was that we had gorgeous weather and thus we were able to ride our bikes around.
it was a wonderful weekend. the photo at the top of this post is from the “advice string” that jesse & amanda had setup. my dad gave me one bit of advice before i married pamela. he told me that we should never wallpaper a room together. either i should do it by myself, she should do it by herself, or we should hire someone. it seems to have worked for us so i thought i would pass along the same advice to jesse & amanda. let’s pray they listen. 🙂
interested in reading what i have been working on for my d.min? well here is the final draft edition of the proposal for my dissertation. you are welcome to read it and if you see a typo or something that i missed please don’t hesitate to let me know. i will not send this in until sometime tomorrow. it is 73 pages long and it is only the proposal. truthfully most of it is pretty boring because it is setting the stage for the project itself.
i received my amazon associates report today and as you can see i am bringing in some major money from my blogging. 😉 the amazon associates thing is basically works this way. if someone ends up buying a book or resources from amazon via a link from my blog then i get a few pennies. for example, i am currently reading miroslav volf’s “exclusion and embrace.” if you decided to buy this wonderful book (which you should because it has been amazing thus far and i am only a third of the way through it) and you went through a link on my blog then i would get a little “thank you” from amazon. as you can tell from the report above you guys and girls like to buy things from my blog. 😉 based on my math i am making almost $0.11 a month from blogging. oh yeah.
this should help with adam’s college expenses. 🙂 “hey adam, look my blogging just bought you two cups of coffee.” that will win me some respect from my oldest child.
SIDE NOTE – the problem with loving theology is that most teens don’t want to hear anything about it (i.e my kids don’t usually care to have an in depth discussion concerning it). while waiting for noah to finish with the dentist this morning i was reading volf’s discussion concerning immanence and transcendence in paul’s new creation mentioned in 2 corinthians 5:17. i was so blown away by the implications of what volf said that i needed to share it with someone (this is usually how i wrap my brain around something). pam usually fills this role but she wasn’t at the dentist office so i decided to share and discuss it with adam. “mhem” was not exactly the response that i was looking for.