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satan lives in our house

oreo
our black cat (oreo) is the strangest creature i have ever been around. the stupid cat eats flowers. every time i buy flowers to bring home to pam the stupid feline begins eatting them. i found some gladiolus today while buying some contact solution for adam and i thought i would be safe buying them since they are four feet tall and tons bigger than the stupid cat. apparently the size of the flowers merely gives the cat more to chew on because she has already started eatting them. i have a scratch on the back of my neck right now because the pain in the rear cat tried to go after the flowers and jumped up on the back of the chair i was sitting on.

it’s things like this that have caused us to refer to oreo as “satan’s little helper” (with a nod to the simpsons).

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falling up

1 mile away from gulfport
every now and then you fall up (which means something bad happens and fixing it turns into an advantage for you). last week the fam and i went to go on vacation to stone mountain, georgia. we were real excited about the trip because 1) it would be fun, and 2) my parents had recently acquired a pop-up camper and we were going to get to use it. unfortunately our dream of a vacation at stone mountain ended about 70 miles north of mobile, alabama when the engine in my truck “gave up the ghost.” my truck threw a connecting rod and though this could be fixed it would cost more than putting a new engine in the truck. so we headed back to mobile and my dad started making a few phone calls some of his friends to find an engine for the truck. the engine he found has a hefty price tag to it … it’s free if my dad and mom will drive an r.v. to savannagh, georgia for the guy who owns the engine. so basically my parents get a free trip to savannah, georgia for a vacation and i get a free engine.

this was great but then the deal got even sweeter earlier today. this afternoon my dad called me and said that the guy who owned the “parts” truck that had my new engine in it is simply going to crush the “parts” truck after the engine is removed from it. therefore, the guy said i could have anything i want off of it. so my dad started listing things from the “parts” truck that could be put on my truck, such as:

  • running boards – i don’t have these
  • moon roof – i don’t have one
  • driver’s side seat – the leather on mine is worn
  • door hanndles – i have a broken one on one back door
  • etc., etc., etc.

of course, all of this is possible because of my “wheelen, dealen” dad. thanks dad.

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nicaragua prayer cards

nicaraguan prayer 06 - hannah
nicaraguan prayer 06 - eric
just a friendly reminder to pray for our friends that are in nicaragua over the next few weeks, you can pick one of these up at church tonight as a physical reminder to pray.

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random quote – narrow versus broad

it doesn’t take a genius to see that religious people to be more narrow than broad.

brennan manning, poser, fakers, & wannabes, p. 90

[Listening to: 08 You Knew – Waterdeep – Live 3.26.03 – Muncie, Indiana (5:25)]
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basketballs for nicaragua

basketball request
we hang out with the “street kids” in diriamba, nicaragua every year when we go to nicaragua. as a part of this we give out as many basketballs as we can. in order to do this, we have to have the basketballs. so if you would like to bring a few or even a hundred basketballs to the church i’ll make sure they get to the “street kids” and they will be very appreciative.

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random quote – the goal of work

the goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to GOD.

richard foster, the freedom of simplicity, p. 149.

[Listening to: Homeward Bound – TreeFinger – (3:38)]
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freedom of simplicity

i am about to finish richard foster’s book “freedom of simplicity” and i need to say that with only two chapters left it is an amazingly butt kicking book. any book by foster is inherently prophetic but always within a real world context. foster offers workable solutions to changing from a complex to a simple life. it is going to take me months and months of conversation with my wife to figure out what this means for us.

[Listening to: I am – anyma – Volume 1 (4:28)]
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Statue of Liberation


Statue of Liberation
Originally uploaded by rcooper.

god bless america … and noone else!”

the statue is in memphis at the world overcomers outreach ministries church and cost $250,000 to erect. now that’s tithe money that i think some one will have to answer for one day.

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just a test

love expired?
i’m just testing right now to see if my “post by email” option works.

i’ve stopped posting as much over the past two months because i’ve
been focused on other things. some of these are:

1)i’ve been focusing on my photography –
which is just too much fun.
2)i’ve decided that i want to run a 5k (and then maybe move up to a
10k, etc.) and i started coolrunning.com’s couch to
5k training program. this week i am running 2.5 miles sunday,
tuesday, and thursday (i’m on week 7).
3)it’s the summer and therefore the youth ministry has me jumping
all over the place.

still i enjoy typing into this blog and my other blog and so i’m
starting to do it again.

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Statue of Liberation?

Statue of Liberation
Originally uploaded by rcooper.

something is really wrong with our faith when we combine national symbols with the symbols of our faith. the powers of rome and judea feared what CHRIST represented because they saw that HE was dangerous to their hold on power. this doesn’t seem to really fit in with the MESSIANIC JEWISH REVOLUTIONARY that the new testament portrays.

now don’t get me wrong. i love my country. i haven’t been all over the world but i’ve been to western europe, easten europe, and central america and i like the system we have here in the u.s. of a. better than anything else i have experienced. yet, i don’t like it enough to worship it. being a citizen of the united states is not where my first loyalty lies. nope it’s a different kingdom that holds my highest loyalty and i constantly struggle to make sure nothing else (money, power, consumerism, etc) gets in the way of that loyalty.

i can’t see that a “statue of liberation” would be a good thing.

[Listening to: I am – anyma – Volume 1 (4:28)]