I'm finally getting Firefox 3 to where I want it ......found a work around to add tabs mix plus when supposedly it wasn't fully developed....

Hurry up developers....update your FF add ons!!! I cant do EVERYTHING myself...

Today....

Well .....If you need a fun way to learn Chinese......or teach kids....this is one option right here at ZON.

Play games......learn Chinese...

What more could you ask for?   Maybe some potential M's might be interested?

The BCC loves their tuna fish......and I mean REALLY loves their tunafish........the good news is they dont mind pepper either......

WE say it all the time....we are free, free, free.
 1 Peter 2:16 said it to me tonight... He warned me to live as a free man.  But don't use your freedom as a cover for evil....live as servants of God (love God).  next verse (love others)    - familiar theme....

But I think Romans 8;2 describes it best when it mentions that what we are free from is the law of sin and death (the consequence of sin without redemption and the ultimate consquence:   eternal seperation from our maker)

So if you're wondering what all that Christian "freedom" talk is about...there it is....and I hope that helps...
Wow!  Are we really free from consequences of sin?  (Be careful...thats a slippery slope!  From  a lot of angles but...ultimately YES...we are plain and simple not going to be seperated from God no matter what we do.  But if youre doing what the God has asked from you. You will continue to honor / love him and love others by demonstrating your love for him by your behavior....

Make Sense?  Hope so....

I love google reader...I get up-to the minute post on all my blogs and really stay in touch with what is going on out there....B.A. got me into it...

SBC outpost...what to do with these people....as a former journalist passioneer (I know its not a real word)  I love what these guys are doing.  On the other hand, this could be causing problems,  on the other hand....maybe there needs to be some problems looking at some of the issues going back and forth. 

Wow.....once again today I learn Man doesnt have the answers...no one is above reproach or accountability to others and unfortunatley we are not all in position to deliver that face to face....and yet we are not the judge....but wrong is wrong.....
(It's like a scene from Fiddler on the Roof"....IF I WERE A RICH MAN...yadadeeda...oops...back to work)

Ya know I much as I hate politics  (except in a way - I love to hate it), I despise christian politics worse.  It really makes me feel the need for a bath.  It to brood on it is discouraging to see crap like this going on!  I speak of the whole debate, not one side in particular.

Aye,  all these spiritually enlighted people who can't see the point of it all, to save their lives.  Who abuse power.  Who point the finger away from the "real imperfect" Maybe that's why Jesus had all he had to say about the "Religious" ( I wonder why more and more people turn away from the church?)

I love the Church and its organizations...the sweetness of the idealism of the church.....far outweighs the reality of the crap I seem to be ennudated with.

Thank you Lord for forgiving my imperfectness, help me not to judge, but to love.  Teach me how to admonish in a loving way,  to love, yet be aware or the dangers around me.  Teach me optimism in a world that doesn't deserve it.  Teach me forgiveness as you have forgiven me.  Change lives

So many new people at our church,  so little time to get to know them.....what should I do....I want to meet them and all and have them for dinner but that starts getting expensive......

It seems like most people in the church don't fellowship at homes any more,  its more of the "eat after church friends"  I want something more....
but thats the way it is now, so it seems,  what is my neighbors name anyways?

I dont think we can affect and support each other through the once a week "eat after church" routine...I hope there are people out there who still desire "real" friendships.

Its not about loneliness, its about leaning on each other to support a Christ-like walk and friendship.  I hope my younger readers (college, etc) wont settle for what a lot of us 30-somethings seem to be accepting for "Christian fellowship".

One of the most amazing things about peeps some times is how we play things up.

I'm chalking it up to the "fish story" effect....we had a great time the first time we went and built it up in our mind.  turns out a 15 by 10 play area isn't really that big and we got bored after about 10 minutes. 

I still have a love/hate relationship with people.......

(I know, I know....we are supposed to love everyone...I know, I know)

I'm talking about my inner struggles that I have always had with my introvert/extrovert self.  Most people wouldnt recognize me as an introvert.....but I am ....more than you might ever find out. 

I need reflection time....away from people (or at least just my family)......I could drown in it...If I let myself. 
I have to be careful...I do love others.  Sometimes, I just wish I could love you from my house instead of meeting you...I'm kidding; (well sorta).  It is a struggle sometimes. 

But there are times when I need people so much and I do really want to serve God and reach people.  To love you like he loves you.  I won't let Satan keep me away from you................I am only refueling with God by myself!!!!!!!

We had our first ACM (Anderson Collegiate Ministries) meeting tonight and I think it went really well.  I've realized that God brought the right people together and I can trust him to keep bringing  the right people. I believe God can pull Anderson together with an outreach goal to and for college and career-aged kids. 
I know the stats aren't there but its time we bucked the stats and not accept them as "God's plan for us"
God will bring the right people/ churches together. This is my prayer tonight:
    unity among Anderson churches.
    outreach instead of self-preservation
    investment in God without seeking to reap return to my attendance needs.

You could never call my work boring.  A Pain?  Sometimes but there is always something going on.

but I am close to getting caught up.
Now when I say that understand that my task list is under 30....and that is as good as zero when you do what I do.....so
YAH!

Oh!  I made up a commericial on the bus to high school one day and somehow that commericial made it to radio.  I haven't figured out how BUT I thought I was on to something when I discovered my friend Ken had been employeed with an Ad Agency.  But it turns out that he has nothing to do with it (allegedly!) and so the search goes on......

I am horrible at keeping schedules.  I will easily double/ triple/ quadtriple book myself and end up remembering none of my appointments....
I finally bought a paper pocket calendar but will eventually turn that (Im figuring, macgically) into a blackberry or something like that (I have Verizon which I love the signal but not a fan of the company or their products)(sigh...why is the US so far behind in openly competitive technology?  So much for the most democratic country in the world.  Does anyone really believe that garbage anymore?)

But I digress............

So I am trying to write down my personal life on paper.  Once again to see how much little time I have to do all the things I want to do and/or need to do? 
Its all about priorities.....

Stupid Work...dragging me down again...
Good to be blogging again.

Ok....Long time no see...but see my other blog (Noise of Nothing.co.nr) ...for explanation on that.....

Just wanted to share about how I got to reconnnect with friends today.  Sometimes you need breaks from people but you can always love them and keep a good relationship.

Plus, I have a chance to open up a witness door with someone  (pray for this)  This person has issues that we havent discussed that and pray for that wisdom to know what to say and how to approach it.

I learned again that

the south is HOT!!!!!!!!!!
I love the people I work with...even though they drive me crazy!
The southwest taco saled at Wendy's isn't bad
Just when you thing people you know cant shock you.......
I can get with this diet thing. (again lol)
I'm sure there is others but I'm tired..

You know, it occured to me again today:

A lot of people seem to still want to downplay the importance of the Old Testament.  I think there are some people that would disregard it all together in terms of relevance. 
But you know the scriptures they talked about meditating on and studying  in the New Testament couldn't very well be the New Testament, could it?

Just a thought.  ( They must have deemed it important, right?)

I am constantly reminded of what honesty can do for you
....or lack of it.

People follow honesty and if they can be sure you are completely honest,  You will go as far as you want to go.  Even to stations of life  where I have no desire to go.

Of course,  you can destroy everything you have built without it.  You can ruin for a person, everything you ever told them.  I have seen it and experienced it over and over again.

I used to have problems embelishing facts or as a tool to avoid conflict,  but I  continue to see the harm and does to others.  Its something I have left behind a long time ago although the desire still creeps up.  I pray  I remain transparent...