a nerd's life.

get outside now!

people of the earth, go outside and make a snowman, build a fort or chuck a snowball - cuz the snow is pack-worthy!!

 

love my kids

ghost town

i'm at work today and no one is here!  strangely i'm kind of enjoying it.  i know, i know, i'm "anti-community", i'm such a jerk, blah, blah, blah.  but my life is so full of people, sometimes its nice to work alone.  so many times i come from meetings with agendas and tasks to do and so many times i don't have the chance to get those things done.  and if i get the chance i usually find myself in conversation with people about other stuff - cuz in this office, there is always other people around!

anyway, i'm saying thanks to God for out ghost town of an office today - its a nice Christmas gift for me.

raisins singing rudolph red nosed reindeer

here comes santa claus or is it Jesus

every year i have found it hard to savor the christmas miracle of the virgin birth.  every year i find myself saying, "it's christmas already!"  i try to avoid this by telling myself to slow down and enjoy christmas - usually i start this "discipline" around the weekend after thanksgiving.  truthfully i did do that better this year than i have in a long time.  i listend to more of my favorite christmas music.  i participated in more christmas miracles (through generosity, prayer, life-change).  and i enjoyed my friends even more this this year.  but still, is christmas really 4 days away?!?

well, regardless of pace, i'm also striving more and more to let my kids know this time is about worshiping Jesus and not the toy god.  and it's really hard...i mean i have to battle the toy god on a regular basis in my mind.  it's incredible how much toy companies are marketing to kids these days - which tells me our kids own our wallets more than anyone else - placing God's desires further down the our list.

anyway, it's my prayer that my kids find Jesus in our home - especially during the party of His birth.  happy b-day Jesus.

on a date

With my wife, and I love it!

oprah

she drives me crazy.  and here is a tribute to her craziness - i've watched it 16 times - i'm still crackin' up!

cartoons are excellent

right now i'm watching teen titans with my son joey and its a blast.  i'm don't event know all the characters names (except robin) and it's still entertaining to me.  now i don't just like any old cartoon; here are the ones i can't get enought of:

• bugs bunny, wyle e. coyote, daffy duck
• donald duck, goofy
• spiderman (and his amazing friends), batman, superman
• and now teen titans!

ones that need to be eliminated from tv:

• spongebob - too wierd
• pokemon - too confusing
• mighty morphin stupid rangers - too stupid!

one's i grew up with that i wish i could still watch:

• dungeons and dragons
• he-man
• darkwing duck

one's my rich friends could watch because they had cable and i hated them for it:

• transformers
• g.i. joe

campus pastoring

ok, so the title is a little misleading, as one of my friends jokingly (I think) reminds me I'm not a campus pastor, I'm a venue pastor. Anyway, I struggle sometimes with this role. And usually I struggle with the 2 minutues I'm given to "drive home" or "focus" the big idea, because I'm not sure the notes I've been given really work. And then there are the times when I think the big idea is unclear and I have a hard time drawing out what I'm suppose to say.

The bottom line is that I truly believe we can make that cp (vp) moment a catalytic moment for people - but instead I think it ends being more of a "when the heck is this guy going to shut up so I can get some chow" moment.  Anyway, maybe I'm being too self-concious or maybe not everyone has ADD like me...but I think sometimes our campus pastor moments just plain ol' suck.

Here we go.

one of my favorite shows in the world is seinfeld and jerry always had a way of devaluing his friends through a unique phrase that titles my first blog entry.  so in an attempt to start blogging i say to myself..."here we go."