There was no flying cow, but a storm brewed quickly yesterday in Tallahassee and caused violent winds to blow over some trees and play with some roof tops. With not much else to do in Tallahassee on a Thursday night... or any night for that matter, I went to survey the damage.
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. (C.H. Spurgeon)
Here are some pictures I took at the Old City Cemetery in Tallahassee, FL. This is the first time I have shot completely in black and white. Most of the black and white shots I have taken before were originally color and I edited the picture to black and white.
I have had my current cell phone number for many years now. Within that time I have received wrong number calls/texts every once in a blue moon. Recently the wrong number calls/text have become frequent -- in the last two months alone I have received seven. I might have received a total of seven missed calls/text all of last year. At any rate, I got a wrong number text this afternoon and had to share. Out of all the text I have received, this one certainly takes the cake -- or should I say, pop tart? Enjoy...
Shelby called my number after her many texts (I missed the call or I would have picked up.) Seriously, you would think that after texting someone and they reply, "Who this be?" and then they don't reply four times you would probably call and make sure you have the right number before you get into the breakfast romance portion of the conversation.
Greg.
The new David Crowder Band single, How He Loves, is available on iTunes. This is a good thing. This means that we are getting closer and closer to the release of their new album, Church Music.
Greg.
A few weeks ago I had lunch with my best friend, Jerad and his beautiful daughter, Maddie. As we ate I tried to get a picture of her with my phone but every time I tried she would look away. Here are my attempts...
Greg.
Are we so important? I have struggled with this thought for sometime now. As the various social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc.) continue to grow in popularity it seems our interest in self grows right along with it. I look at the tweets and status updates on Facebook from my family, friends and people I have never met before except through the pixels on my computer screen and shake my head.
I don't have a problem with Twitter or Facebook or any of the other sites out there that allow us to scream ever so vaguely, "Look at me, look at me!" Heck, I have a personal website. Who am I? I can't tell you how many times I have been given that 'are you serious' look when I tell people I have a website. It truly is ridiculous. Anyone who has known me for a while knows that I have thought about closing down this site many times. But then I hear the stories of people who's lives have been affected by my site in a positive way and it makes me think there might just been a reason for my little corner of the web.
My worry is that we are in a steady pull towards ourselves and are losing sight of Who gives us our talent or kids or job or whatever it is that we like to write so much about. Just this morning I posted that I had changed my Twitter name. Even as I typed it out I thought how dumb it was for me to type such a "needed" piece of information -- but I submitted it nonetheless.
These social networks give us a chance to proclaim Christ in a form of media that we have never had before. Just this morning I was reading a book that was published in 1991 and the author was encouraging his readers to join a sermon cassette tape lender as an option for them to hear the Word of God if they were unable to visit a local church. What is a cassette? We now live in a world that allows us to hear (for free) sermons preached at a conference or church hundreds of miles away within hours of the preacher saying amen.
I could ramble on and on about this, but I think John Piper summed it up nicely here.
Greg.
“Self-loathing is just as arrogant, it puts you above and beyond the cross. The self-righteous man doesn’t need the cross because he is good enough to pull it off… and the self-loathing man puts himself beyond the cross as if it’s power can’t have any effect on them because of the darkness they have been through.” - Matt Chandler, The Village Church
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