Pray NOW for Senator Obama's Repentance

We need to pray for Senator Obama's repentance regarding numerous federal policies .......

DP:

You are right, I can not let the "political" aspect go.

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We received the fax (titled as in my post) today at church and it went into details about the up-coming choice.

Here are some of their language:

Our nation faces a fork, a divergence between the high road and the low road -- and you and your congregation could very well determine the direction we take. The high road upholds America's peaceful tradition of Judeo-Christian tolerance and morality. The low road marches us toward militant secular-paganism, militant Islam, or both.

The high road upholds traditional marriage between one man and one woman, and the sanctity of innocent human life that springs from such unions. The low road favors homosexual "marriage" and child sacrifice (we're not referring to familiar abortion here – see below).

The high road upholds the rights of pastors, priests and rabbis to "speak truth to power" in the tradition of Moses, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, (and for Christians) John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, Stephen and Jesus. The low road would officially censor the Judeo-Christian view from the public square.

They want us to show a "sermon" this Sunday to make our congregation aware of the issues at hand. Here is the video.



We, as a church, will not be showing the video.

I really struggle on how I feel about the Christian Community making thee pushes.

Shaq: Opening Night

From Yahoo Sports ....

This is too funny.

As some of you might recall, during the preseason doldrums, Suns center Shaquille O'Neal took offense with Spurs coach Gregg Popovich's liberal use of the Hack-a-Shaq strategy during the first round of the playoffs last year, calling it "a coward move."

Now fast forward to Wednesday night's Suns-Spurs season opener:



I love when the game is not taken too seriously.

BTW, The Suns did win the game and Shaq had a good game. He scored 15 pts and had 13 rebs and he went 5-8 from the FT line.

I Finally Did It ...

I went over to the election board and voted. I had to put the "election" behind me.

Yes, I was one of the "undecided" voters. I did not truly make up my mind until Monday. I had been weighing the pro and cons of the election in my head.

I listened to most of the debates and I read most of the transcripts and interviews.

I also did not limit my search to the Republican and Democrat Party. I researched the following parties and candidates:

Constitution: Chuck Baldwin
Liberterian: Bob Barr
Green: Cynthia McKinney
Socialist: Brian Moore
Independent: Ralph Nader
Reform: Ted Weill

I walked over to the election board and was comfortable with my selection.

Have you voted ?
Will you vote ?
are you waiting for this to be over ?

Before I Believe, I Need A Statue Of God ...

I thought that this cartoon was funny. Maybe, you do not but after the last 2 days, I need some small laughs:

My New Nephew

My brother and his wife just had their first baby. If the pic is too blurry, I apologize. I tried to zoom it in and blow him up a little bigger and by doing so .... it messed up the pix's a little.

Congrats to them *clapping*

Now, that was a lot of walking .....

Well, since I have been wearing a pedometer, yesterday was my biggest day of walking. After Monday's night meeting, I had decided that I was going to purposely walk and try to clear my mind. I think that it worked. As I walk to the Free Clininc, I decided to try to reach a "big goal". I did reach it. Here are the numbers:

70,109 steps
33.17 miles
10 hours and 12 mins of on my feet moving

Walking & Praying

That has been most of the day. I did have staff meeting and I did go to the free medical clinic to volunteer but besides that, it has been walking and praying ....

I am off to do more .... at the end of the day, I will share how many steps, miles and hours, I spent walking, praying, and contemplating at the issue at hand ...

Please Pray with me :)

Thanks

Why Am I Continually Amazed ?

Why am I continually amazed after coming out of church meetings ?

You would think that after 15 years of ministry that I would have come to the realization that you never know what will occur in the meeting and you never know what decisions have been made in meetings out of the meeting before the meeting.

On my talk and proposal ...... didn't give.

An Internal Struggle

Today as been a battle for me. If I am to be completely honest, the last two months have been a battle on where I am at inregards to our Sunday morning schedule discussion.

Here in 98 minutes, we will be entering into another round of discussions. I am feeling sick and my stomache is turning and there is more to it then the white chili that I had for lunch.

So, when it is my turn to speak and council looks to me for my words of guidance and direction on this topic, will they like what I have to say ? Of course, maybe the more appropriate question at the present time is "what am I going to say?".

Yes, this issue in my mind should have been put to bed long time ago and it should be "polished" and I should be going in there "to close the deal". However, the turning in my stomache is saying, "no, don't make the hard sell".

For you see, the proposal rhat I am "scheduled" to make from most peoples standpoint is one that I am not sure that I can fully support and encourage. Now, don't get me wrong, if the council decides we need to go in that direction, I will work my "you know what off" to accomplish it and make the situation the best it can be ...

HOWEVER .... I think that from a family ministry aspect, we will be making a few mistakes and the mistakes may "haunt" us for years to come.

I am reminded of the following quote:

You can add without attracting attention; but you cannot subtract without attracting attention.

One of the aspects that I believe is useful to do when you are managing change is the following:

prune quickly, plant slowly

We are not doing that. I am not 100% sure how we could do that in our current situation. Yes, I do have a few thoughts ... BUT .....

Begin with the End in Mind

We need to do this, I am not sure that this will occur though.

Well, I have to wrap it up because we leave for church notes in 5 minutes.

My final point will be this:

a better path is to be strategic, however, I am afraid that we might slip into a "whatever" approach.

here we go .....

Bill Clinton to campaign with Obama

They are making their big run for the last 10 days ...



In yet another sign that Democrats are putting the contentious and hard-fought primary season behind them, former President Bill Clinton will campaign with Sen. Barack Obama for the first time in Florida on Wednesday, according to Matt McKenna of the Clinton Foundation.

Sen. Hillary Clinton will not attend the event but did recently campaign with Obama in Florida, a crucial battleground state that CNN currently considers a toss-up.

The Clintons also recently campaigned together with Sen. Joe Biden and Biden’s wife, Jill, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where both Joe Biden and Sen. Clinton have roots.

Obama met personally with former President Clinton in September at Clinton’s Harlem offices. Then, Clinton predicted that Obama would win in November “pretty handily.”

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10 more days ..... of course, I am not sure if it will be done in 10 days, I am sure there will be something that occurs and we will not know ...