day 4

a picture of a habit you wish you didnt have...




why am I doing this? I have nothing else to blog about.

Skipping Church If You Catch Even a Whiff of a Guest Speaker

Here is a small exert from Stuff Christians Like, a Seinfeld-ish observational Christian comedy book by Jonathan Acuff.

Unless I know there’s going to be some sort of animal show involved – maybe called Noah’s Bark, with a group of traveling dogs that reenact Bible stories – I’m probably going to skip the guest speaker at church.

I know I’m not the only one who does this because the parking lot and the sanctuary are significantly emptier when the senior pastor isn’t there. I think my church is started to catch on though, because they’re getting pretty tricky about telling us when the senior pastor is actually going to be in the building. Using video sermons and live feeds and satellite campuses, they’re shuffling him all over the place like the president during a terrorist threat. You never actually know where he is until you get there.

And sometimes you’ll even get there, see him do the announcements, and then voila, a guest speaker magically materializes on stage. Clearly they’re on to us.

That being said…I’m going to be the guest speaker Sunday, April 10, 2011 at First AG fairfield

Day Two

a picture of you and the person you have been close with for a while.

30 day pictoral blog

Day one is a Picture of yourself and 15 facts about me.



1. I hate being 27, I have an OCD thing with even numbers.
2. I went to Bethany U for 4 years and have a degree from Northcentral U.
3. I live in CA but my first love is MN.
4. Steelers, ducks, dodgers, sharks, clippers. (not in that order though)
5. I drink more coffee in a day than most do in a week.
6. I grew up non-denom but decided AG is was best for me in college.
7. I wasnt a fan of apple until I got an iPhone, now I want everything apple.
8. I can type in the upwards of 80 words per minute.
9. I get excited for the little things, like coffee in the morning, tv shows.
10. I have youth pastored for 17 months but been in youth ministry for 9 years.
11. I think angry birds is the best game for a phone.
12. I buy a new dodger hat every year on march 7th.
13. I love awkward situations, they make me happy.
14. Ive never riden a bycicle ever, ever, ever.
15. I want to reach 1 million people for God before my life is done.

xes, a revolution series

The world is selling us a backwards view of sex (XES). We are constantly bombarded with this backwards view through TV, movies, music, advertising, and the Internet.

During the REVOLUTION February series, XES, you will hear about God’s plan for purity, dating, relationships, sexuality, and God’s view of sex. We will be answering questions like “What’s the Purpose of Sex?” and “Is there a reason to pursue purity or are we just supposed to run from impurity?”

Wednesday nights at 7!

the difference between a group and a ministry

The difference between a youth group and a youth ministry is:
• A youth group sings; a youth ministry worships.
• A youth group spends; a youth ministry gives.
• A youth group cares about “us four and no more;” a youth ministry cares about reaching the lost.
• A youth group baby-sits; a youth ministry trains and equips.

superbowl thoughts.

- you cannot win a game with 3 turnovers. crazy thing is we had a chance to win.
- Ben looked off the first quarter and a half. found himself late in the second quarter but it was to late.
- Mendenhalls fumble was what turned the game around. If Pittsburgh had scored a TD its 24-21 if a FG its 20-21, that was a 10-14 point swing.
- Green Bay looked like they wanted it more.
- Experience didnt play a role in this game at all.
- I was happy the refs didnt play a big role in this game.
- This game reminded me alot of the Jets-Steelers game from 2 weeks previous.
- Ben is human we cant always expect him to come through all the time.
- for Ben being out the first 4 games of the season and nobody expecting Pittsburgh to even go to the playoffs we had a good season.
- No superbowl means a failed season.
- 8 days till pitchers and catcher report.

here we go!

Here we go
Here we go
Here we go
Steelers, Here we go
Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl
Here we go

Cheer the Steelers, Black and the Gold
Here we go
Town of Pittsburgh's, Heart and Soul
Here we go
With tomlin power, will get the job done
This is the year will get 2 more than anyone one

Here we go
Here we go
Here we go
Steelers, Here we go
Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl

Here we go
Roethlisberger hes ready to throw
Here we go
To Ward, Antwaan, and wallace
Here we go
Will go to rashard when we need a touchdown
and if you get his way hes goin to knock you around

Here we go
Here we go
Here we go
Steelers, Here we go
Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl

Here we go
Now the offense is ready to score
Here we go
And theres one thing we know for sure
Here we go
If we dont get it in the endzone
Will get 3 points off of suishams toe

Here we go
Here we go
Here we go
Steelers, Here we go
Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl

Here we go
We got woodley, hampton, and harrison
Here we go
Polamalu, Ike, and townsend
Here we go
The other team aint going to gain any ground
Becuase the defense is going to bring the steel curtain down

Here we go
Here we go
Here we go
Steelers, Here we go
Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl

Here we go
Here we go
Here we go
Steelers, Here we go
Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl

HERE WE GO!!

Top 15 Pittsburgh steelers of all time.

Why 15? because 10 wasnt enough for this franchise.

15. James Harrison- he came out of nowhere to live forever in superbowl greatness, 100 yard interception return in SB43 changed the game, the reason Pitt won.
14. Mike webster- center for all those suberbowl teams
13. John Stalworth- won 4 sb's, great hands
12. Rod Woodson- Shut down corner, nobody threw to him
11. Jack Ham- one of only 9 players to have more than 20 sacks (25) and 20 interceptions (32)
10. Troy Polamalu- biggest game changer in the NFL today
9. Jerome Bettis- The bus, first ballot hall of famer
8. Hines ward- Toughest WR ever, hold all steeler reception records
7. Lynn Swall- best wr of the 70's crew
6. Mel Blundt- Changed how defense is played
5. jack Lambert- 9 straight probowls, major clog of the steel curtain
4. Terry Bradshaw- for someone who cant spell cat he sure is a great QB
3. Franco Harris- retired as the 2nd leading rusher in the NFL
2. Ben Roethlisberger- 2 time superbowl winner, still only 28
1. Mean Joe Greene- The anchor of the greatest defense ever

superbowl thoughts.

While I wont say Pittsburgh will destroy Green Bay(it would be nice, but not likely), I do think Pittsburgh will win the game. In my opinion the teams are decently evenly matched. Both have great defenses and pretty good offenses.

Heres are my reasons I think Pittsburgh is better.

- quarterback- although rodgers is a great qb, experience in this game is huge, Ben has it aaron doesnt. advantage Pitt

- Running back- Mendenhall is running well right now at the right time, and I honestly couldnt tell you who the GB running back is. advantage Pitt

- Wide recievers- Both crews are great. ward, wallace, sanders, randle el vs driver, jennings, jones, nelson. Push

- Tight ends- this position will be the key to winning, who can get the ball to the TE- its miller, spaeth vs crabtree and lee- slight advantage GB

- offensive line- no brainer advantage GB

- Defensive line- Im saying its a push

- Linebackers- This one is tough, bishop, hawk and matthews are good, but I would take farrior, foote, harrison, timmons, and woodly- advantage Pitt

- defensive backs- polamalu, taylor, clark, gay, mcfadden and allen vs woodson, underwood, lee and shields- advantage Pitt- the only reason I say this is because of number 43.

- Special teams- who are we kidding Pittsburgh's special teams is terrible- no matter how bad green bays is its advantage green bay.

This game is going to come down to who can get the ball to the tight ends and who's defense can make more big plays. I like Pittsburghs experience in this one so Im saying Pittsburgh 30 Green bay 24.