Robert's Blog

i finished organic church by neil cole yesterday and i found it very challenging. i have to admit that the thought of a house church is very compelling. I don’t have any experience with churches that only operate out of homes. i do however have some experience with churches that operate often out of homes. they regularly incorporate homes into their times together. i would be interested to find out how well house churches age. it seems to me that they would work very well with younger ages but i don’t have any idea how they would do with older individuals. this is my lack of experience speaking here.

i’m now reading shane claiborne’s irresistible revolution. last year i went and spent a week with shane and his friends at the simple way. many of the stories within the book i heard then. i’ll write more concerning the book when i finish it. it’s enough to say at this point that it is very powerful … just like shane.

i’ve decided to test out sermon cloud as a means of syndicating the messages from the view, our weekly youth oriented worship service. i’ll write back later and discuss my feelings on sermon cloud after i use it for awhile.

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yesterday, after a month of globetrotting around the world my lost dufflebag that delta airlines lost at the end of our mission trip to nicargua came back home. last week i had actually turned in my “loss claim” and figured delta would just be reimbursing me for the loss. of course, i was pretty upset by this fact because there were certain things in my bag that couldn’t be replaced, such as;

• the table runner and random fabricy thingie i bought in masaya for pam
• the baseball jerseys i purchased in nicaragua for my boys
• my last almost complete moleshine journal – filled with decent and terrible ideas from the past year and a half.
• the flip flops that i have spent the past 2 1/2 years wearing in (i bought these to replace the pair i had for seven years that finally broke after they were really welling good.)
• the soccer jerseys i purchased for myself when i was in diriamba – the england national team and manchester united
• the six pounds of coffee that i brought back for my family and friends.

the other things could be replaced but the list above would be hard to correct. thankfully my duffle bag of eight years is now back and i am presently wearing my flip flops. ahhhhhhh! life is good.

the crocodile hunter died today. it appears he was struck in the chest by the barb of a stingray that he was diving with. this sent him into cardiac arrest and killed him. strange, huh? i would have never thought that he would have died from something like a stingray. after all the stuff he did with much more dangerous animals it’s rather ironic that he would go in this manner. it should have been something more like him being attacked by a ravenous hoard of salt water crocodiles while he was fighting off twelve rabid cobras who were going after him because of the two great white sharks that he was wrestling with ten thousand very angry poison arrow frogs waiting to tag in for the two great whites.

it just seems kind of anticlimatic for him to be killed by a stingray.

ok go’s has produced a couple of incredible videos. this one may be the best.

my run for the day
distance – 6.3 miles
total time – 67:56
pace – 10:46/mile

Ski Day 9-2-06 060

Originally uploaded by DjPhatman.

it was ski day today (our annual trip to false river to ski, wakeboard, and tube) and as always it was a blast. thanks goes out to the fletchers for letting us use their camp.

the surprising thing to me was how dead false river was for labor day weekend. of course, it was because of the fact that there is a l.s.u. game today and that is an all day affair around baton rouge. nobody does anything in baton rouge when it’s game day.

my run for the day
distance – 4.2 miles
total time – 44:35
pace – 10:36/mile

i had a conversation with a friend today that reminded me that the new series of lost begins october 4th. boo yah!

my run for the day
distance – 1.5 miles
total time – 14:47
pace – 9:51/mile

my run for the day
distance – 3.7
total time – 36:29
pace – 9:51/mile