A crazy guy trying to follow God & his random ramblings!
Simon Says > Jesus Says I saw this video from Francis Chan about making disciples and it really hits home when he compares how most of us have all played "Simon Says" as a kid, but yet we think that when Jesus says all we need...
Heart Check For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. If you serve Christ with this attitude, you will please God, and others...
Keep Me Humble I occasionally publish notes on my YouVersion profile, but for some reason they don't always show up, so I will also post them here. After reading Luke 8:9-14 I decided to write a letter to God and...
Merry Christmas 2010 This year seems to have flown by! I am not happy to see it end, but I am thrilled for 2011 to start. This past year I found myself in several interesting places ministry-wise. Many of you know that...
My Light Will Shine This year I am taking the page from a friend of mine, Adam McLane, and I will not only be passing out candy for Halloween but I will also have some coffee and hot chocolate for the parents that are walking...
Jul
14
2009
Category : Sports
I saw this commercial on TV the other day and it just makes me all the more impressed with Lance Armstrong. People who know me know that I love le Tour de France. It is the greatest test of human endurance and strength, and Lance Armstrong is one of the greatest athletes of all times. He has overcome tremendous odds and obstacles to be the best. He is an inspiration to many.
I am so glad that he is back racing in le Tour this year. I hope he wins his 8th.
Apr
10
2009
Lance is da man! You can not keep a good man like him down.
HT to Andy.
Mar
24
2009
If you haven’t seen the crash that Lance Armstrong was in at the Vuelta a Castilla y León, I have it here on my blog.
Feb
05
2009
Category : Random
Everyone seems to be doing this on Facebook and I keep getting tagged with it on my Facebook profile by my friends, so I decided to do it. Since I have everything that appears on my blog appear there I decided to post it here first so that my blog readers could see it as well.
1) I have always lived in the state of Michigan, except for 3 years when I was in Bible college in New York.
2) I love to travel, but I rarely do because I don’t have a lot of money to do so.
3) My favorite means of travel is by airplane.
4) I am a roller coaster junkie.
5) I hate cold and wonder how it is that I have survived almost 36 years in this arctic tundra called Michigan.
6) Ever since I was a child I have always wanted to be a pastor.
7) I also have dreams of being an actor. I love being on the stage and would love to be in a movie.
8 ) My favorite state that I have been to is California.
9) Racism of any kind really annoys me and I even got in a fight with my best friend when I was a kid over it.
10) I am a Michigan fan at heart, but I also like Notre Dame. (Don’t tell my Michigan fan friends.)
11) I refuse to wear the color green or red during football season, because I don’t want anyone to think that I am a fan of one of those schools.
12) I love high school and college football.
13) I actually don’t own very many clothes with the colors red or green anyway.
14) My favorite athletic event is le Tour de France.
15) I have always wanted to meet Bo Schembechler and was really sad when he died, because it meant that I lost my chance.
16) I like to have an occasional cigar and I usually smoke one to celebrate a significant event in my life, like when I graduated from Bible college, had kids, etc.
17) I used to smoke cigarettes a lot when I was a teenager, which was dumb, and never had my ID checked until the day I turned 18.
18) I am a social networking addict.
19) I am a social butterfly and love being in large crowds of people.
20) I married my wife when she was a teenager and I want to be a youth pastor. Is that weird?
21) My wife and I have known each other pretty much our whole lives and I think that is very cool.
22) There are very few people that I can not get along with.
23) When I have a friendship end it takes me a really long time to get over it.
24) I rarely give up on people and I always believe that things can get better for them.
25) One of the most treasured things that have been said to me were: 1) that I am loyal & 2) that I was there.
Dec
26
2008
I saw this video on a friend’s blog and I had to post it here. This is so great and I am getting excited to see Lance Armstrong back in the saddle at le Tour de France. You can follow his training updates and just see what he is up to via his tweets.
For Christmas my son got me the book Lance Armstrong: Images of a Champion. I tonly covers up through his first 5 Tour wins, but it is still really cool to see the pictures. I have a dream of one day being able to go to France and witness a Tour in person. One of these days….
Sep
08
2008
Category : Sports
Jul
28
2008
Category : Sports
This year’s le Tour de France was one of the best ones that I can remember. Team CSC Saxo Bank and Carlos Sastre stole the show and won it all, both the individual maillot jaune but also the team won the overall team time.
The Tour was filled with some spectacular stages that left you on the edge of your seat the whole time and cheering in the end. There was also some spectacular crashes that unfortunately claimed a few riders, but some dusted themselves off and got back in the saddle.
There was some people who tried to disgrace the beautiful sport of cycling by taking drugs to enhance their performance, but my hat goes off to the officials of le Tour and to the French authorities for not tolerating it. Everyone who tested positive was immediately thrown out of the race and arrested. Cycling is showing sport how you should handle people who try to disgrace their respective sport by taking drugs. In my opinion, people who are saying this is tearing down the sport of cycling are dead wrong, because the cycling officials are dealing with it swiftly and harshly. So I say thank you for saving this beautiful sport.
I must say that having Versus and a DVR is such a wonderful thing, because I was able to catch all the stages. So thank you U-verse for delivering such a beautiful digital signal to my house for me to enjoy le Tour. Now if only we can get Versus to do next year’s race in HD. Then I know that Andy and I will be very happy campers.
Next year look out for Christian Vandevelde of Team Garmin / Chipotle, who was this year’s tour surprise. He might just be wearing the maillot jaune next year on the Champs-Elysées
Mar
21
2008
Category : Sports
Last year Alberto Contador won the maillot jaune in le Tour de France as a part of Team Discovery Channel. And Levi Leipheimer came in third place for Team Discover Channel. Now Team Discovery Channel has disbanded and Alberto and Levi joined up with Team Astana and the ASO (Amaury Sports Organization) has banned Team Astana from being able to ride in this year’s Tour de France, because of past issues related to illegal blood doping. But this year’s team is different.
I understand that they want to draw a hard line in the sand with teams that are caught in such practices, but giving the whole team what amounts to a death sentence is stupid. Alberto and Levi had no part in it as well as many of their fellow team members. You can read more about it here.
So Levi has started an online petition to allow him and his team to ride. You can join the campaign by going to letleviride.com and signing up. Hopefully, this will cause the ASO to realize they need to allow him and Albero to ride this year.
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