This weekend Erin and I went to church with Hieu at Crosspoint. Crosspoint is a ministry of West U Baptist Church & they serve fair trade coffee.....
On Monday Erin had a retreat with her fellow 1st year med students. Erin and another gal were canoeing during the retreat, and Erin spotted an alligator some 30ft from them.... so she kept her cool and they paddled the other way to safety.... Praise the Lord for that mercy.... Erin gets freaked out talking about it - so I'm glad that God granted her that season of calm.
Erin got back from the retreat on Tuesday and she's had orientation on campus every day this week. She starts school on Monday and I'm so excited for her! Please be praying for us - I'm sure we'll both need extraordinary patience and understanding as we start this journey.
Lately I've been listening to messages from the pastor of FBC Durham. My old accountability partner Line attends that church... and it so happens that they're preaching through Romans in the morning (just finished Ro 9) and Hebrews in the evenings - which is a great combo! www.fbcdurham.com
Anyway - not a whole lot to say right now - I miss my family....
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Friday, July 22, 2005
THE FRANCHI$E
It is a wonderful thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today is perhaps the best day of the year - today should be a national holiday - July 22-2005, the day our little prodigal returned.....
The man who I will refer to as "The Franchi$e" from this day forth - Greg Ostertag is back with the Jazz! I smell a championship. I am elated.... I can't even describe how elated I am....
I have one other comment for this blog -
Christopher Gino Dean(.net) sent me some CDs the other day and I was blessed (I'm talking the annointing of Elijah spirit here) by this man's music http://www.paisleyyankolovich.com/
I can only receive that musical blessing in small doses.... but they are life-changing doses....
Thanks Chris, but more importantly thanks to "The Franchi$e".... I need a T-shirt...
Feeling Tagalicious....
-jake
Today is perhaps the best day of the year - today should be a national holiday - July 22-2005, the day our little prodigal returned.....
The man who I will refer to as "The Franchi$e" from this day forth - Greg Ostertag is back with the Jazz! I smell a championship. I am elated.... I can't even describe how elated I am....
I have one other comment for this blog -
Christopher Gino Dean(.net) sent me some CDs the other day and I was blessed (I'm talking the annointing of Elijah spirit here) by this man's music http://www.paisleyyankolovich.com/
I can only receive that musical blessing in small doses.... but they are life-changing doses....
Thanks Chris, but more importantly thanks to "The Franchi$e".... I need a T-shirt...
Feeling Tagalicious....
-jake
Monday, July 18, 2005
What've we got in this thing.... a cuisinart?
This just in: On Aug. 27th, Derek Webb will be playing a show in Alvin, TX - and the speaker for the evening will be the youth minister for that bastion of doctrinal purity - Lakewood Church (Incidentally - if you're not living your best life now, there's a book available just for you....). I can't wait for this show - I'm actually really encouraged, I hope a lot of people show up... I hope that God rescues Osteen and revolutionizes the lives of all the people who are in the grasp of that ministry, and I hope that the truth is proclaimed loudly through Derek's music and teaching at this event.
I read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince this weekend - and I need to give it a month and then I'll read it again...Erin needs to read it this week so we can discuss it.... I can't wait. I'm thinking of starting on The Chronicle of Narnia... but for now I've the Normal Christian Life and set of Italian Language CD's to keep me company on my train rides to and from work.
Erin has orientation for med school all next week and she starts on Aug. 1st... I'm really proud of my wife.
Last night Erin and I were reading at our dinner table, and were visited by a large, unwelcome guest...... a speedy little bugger if you will. That's right kiddos our first roach. I tried to spray it, but that wasn't working out, so I pounced on it with some paper towel, and it kept on kicking..... so I applied somer serious pressure and twisting - and the struggle was over. Roaches are gross....
On a more somber note: I got an e-mail from my dad that my cousin Dan - who'd just returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan was paralyzed in a pool accident. Here's the link to the news story: http://www.katu.com/stories/78049.html
A lot of prayers to be said for Dan and his family....
And please be praying for Erin as she is at last able to start on her journey toward becoming a doctor.
In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. Prov. 16:9
Amen, Lord Jesus
I read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince this weekend - and I need to give it a month and then I'll read it again...Erin needs to read it this week so we can discuss it.... I can't wait. I'm thinking of starting on The Chronicle of Narnia... but for now I've the Normal Christian Life and set of Italian Language CD's to keep me company on my train rides to and from work.
Erin has orientation for med school all next week and she starts on Aug. 1st... I'm really proud of my wife.
Last night Erin and I were reading at our dinner table, and were visited by a large, unwelcome guest...... a speedy little bugger if you will. That's right kiddos our first roach. I tried to spray it, but that wasn't working out, so I pounced on it with some paper towel, and it kept on kicking..... so I applied somer serious pressure and twisting - and the struggle was over. Roaches are gross....
On a more somber note: I got an e-mail from my dad that my cousin Dan - who'd just returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan was paralyzed in a pool accident. Here's the link to the news story: http://www.katu.com/stories/78049.html
A lot of prayers to be said for Dan and his family....
And please be praying for Erin as she is at last able to start on her journey toward becoming a doctor.
In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. Prov. 16:9
Amen, Lord Jesus
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
My castle is this Houston Metro Bus.....
Erin and I met Eric James' dad on Sunday at Christ the King! He is awesome - we had a good mini talk and I need to e-mail him back so Erin and I can head over and meet Eric's family... they actually live pretty close to us....
Erin and I have really dug the music so far at Christ the King - this Sunday we sang: Amazing Grace, Let us Love and Sing and Wonder, Be Thou My Vision, and Jesus I come to Thee.
On an unrelated note I wanted to give a shout out to John Harty: http://thebearded.blogspot.com/ welcome to the blogosphere....
and also to my sister Amy - thanks for stepping out into the new frontier of blog to comment!
Work has been awesome for me.... I really am liking my job so far, and I get to listen to www.sermonaudio.com pretty much all day... I've been listening to a lot of O. Palmer Robertson lately and I really dig his voice..... I also listened to some more Keller and Piper for good measure. I'm almost finished with Life Together and I wanted to start blogging about how I've been effected by it...
So this is from the end of the book, but it really hit me hard:
From Ch.4: Ministry in the section: The Ministry of Listening
"The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them... Christians, especially ministers, so often think they must always contribute something when they are in the company of others, that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking... But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God too. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there is nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words... and it is certain that here too our attitude toward our brother only reflects our relationship to God."
As I sit on a train crowded full of a small portion of the couple million residents of Houston these words really hit home with me. As Erin and I were moving here, I told her that one thing I really wanted to work on was pride.... to fight the urge to be 'right' in conversations as though to exert some perceived authority over another.... I'm learning more and more that I am a poor listener to the disservice of the community that God entrusted me with over the past three years, and I hope that I'm growing in grace to be quiet in the presence of the Lord and listen to His Word, to be attentive to the Spirit, and to really long for the heart and burden of my brothers and sisters...... perhaps a quiet mouth in my case will bring about a quiet soul.
All for now.
-jake
Erin and I have really dug the music so far at Christ the King - this Sunday we sang: Amazing Grace, Let us Love and Sing and Wonder, Be Thou My Vision, and Jesus I come to Thee.
On an unrelated note I wanted to give a shout out to John Harty: http://thebearded.blogspot.com/ welcome to the blogosphere....
and also to my sister Amy - thanks for stepping out into the new frontier of blog to comment!
Work has been awesome for me.... I really am liking my job so far, and I get to listen to www.sermonaudio.com pretty much all day... I've been listening to a lot of O. Palmer Robertson lately and I really dig his voice..... I also listened to some more Keller and Piper for good measure. I'm almost finished with Life Together and I wanted to start blogging about how I've been effected by it...
So this is from the end of the book, but it really hit me hard:
From Ch.4: Ministry in the section: The Ministry of Listening
"The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them... Christians, especially ministers, so often think they must always contribute something when they are in the company of others, that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking... But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God too. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there is nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words... and it is certain that here too our attitude toward our brother only reflects our relationship to God."
As I sit on a train crowded full of a small portion of the couple million residents of Houston these words really hit home with me. As Erin and I were moving here, I told her that one thing I really wanted to work on was pride.... to fight the urge to be 'right' in conversations as though to exert some perceived authority over another.... I'm learning more and more that I am a poor listener to the disservice of the community that God entrusted me with over the past three years, and I hope that I'm growing in grace to be quiet in the presence of the Lord and listen to His Word, to be attentive to the Spirit, and to really long for the heart and burden of my brothers and sisters...... perhaps a quiet mouth in my case will bring about a quiet soul.
All for now.
-jake
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