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Fun with a Macbook

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:49:43 GMT

Okay, so my friend just got a brand new Macbook, and being that he's crossed over from PC world, he asked me to kind of show him the ropes on his new Mac laptop. Well it didn't take long for me to discover he had a built-in camera, so i then spent the next 30-45 minutes playing with it and making funny faces. So here are some of the pics we took with his new-found toy:

Man, she's hot!!
This is actually Luke.
Luke on the left, Jacob on the right.
i got sponsored by crest with super-power whitening bleach extract
uh, why ya'll keep staring at my forehead?
Me and Terrence, the proud new owner of a Macbook.

guess who's back

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:11:19 GMT

okay, so you know it's been a long time since i last posted when it says "it's been 150 days since you last logged in." so, yeah, it's been a while. it's the very reason why my title bar says "don't expect too much from me". i'm just not disciplined at this.

so a lot has happened since March 8. so rather than try to tell it all, here are some pics of things that have been most important to us:

jacob learned to ride a bike - he got it on like the 2nd try

the world's smiliest baby - seriously, this is his demeanor 99% of the time he's awake. and now he's learning to dance - will try to get video of that or something.

Kerri's birthday was yesterday. 31 yrs old. Older? yes. but she's more beautiful than ever. Happy Birthday baby! Here she is with our boys. Nathan was too distracted with the party hats.

me & Nathan (now 9 mos old)

this is my dad and our nephew Isaac (1 mo older than Nathan)

you simply cannot deny what you see with your own eyes

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:49:09 GMT

tonight at dunamis was pretty phenomenal. i really didn't prepare a whole lot because the last four weeks have been pretty intense, so i purposefully wanted to make tonight a bit more relaxed. i wasn't sure where all the night would lead, but i knew whose hands it was in.

part of me has really been wanting to have one of those nights where the spirit just moves and so we move with him and we watch amazing things happen, but i've not felt that leading in a while, and i'm not one who will try to force it to make it happen and get all worked up and then say it's God when it's really just me, so i've never pushed it.

tonight, there was no denying it. when worship started, i was a bit bummed out because there were only like 10 people there it seemed. but in the last song, or what was supposed to be the last song, i just felt the urge - now is the time - so i simply went forward and shared just a bit about how when jesus walked through villages, people would cry out to him and call his name. i told the students that God is a God who wants to act on our behalf, but we simply need to call out to him and take the initiative - i then had our staff come up to be available to pray with people as they needed.

patrick came up. he came in tonight with a bad limp and pain on his face - said he had sprained his ankle earlier today in drill practice. some staff and students prayed for his ankle. you see, this is where we want to stop. we've prayed for it, but then we go back to our seat or our routine as before and "hope" something happens. i told him to take a walk. don't just ask for healing - act on it. believe you have received. belief goes beyond hoping. belief carries into action. go for a walk. so he walked. the limp was gone. so i told him to go run. he ran laps around the church!

i don't care what they thought about things before the night started, but when most everyone there saw the miracle take place right in front of them, there's no denying it. you cannot deny the powerful presence of God and the miracle working power of the cross. unless you're a fool.

so it's been a while - get over it

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:58:36 GMT

with so much talk about the postmodern generation and the emerging church and moral relativism at an "all-time" high (who was appointed to measure that by the way? was he voted in or just self-appointed, or is this person some figment of our imagination that has the ability to compare generations with self-delegated powers? things that make you go hmmmmm) and anyway, all the changes and shifts that the church needs to make to either become a stronger and at least relevant resource to the world that surrounds it.

and with so much talk about changing methods without losing the message, you have to wonder if the church indeed has lost its message?! i mean, we have a message, but is it one that awakens within the soul of every man the burning desire to be part of something bigger than himself? the current and popular teachings of the church today, while they may excite us and tell us how much we can get from being children (and heirs also) of God, they don't call us to a life of surrender and sacrifice to be part of a plan that is so much bigger than my individual life.

we live in a time when knowing Jesus is a very personal, individualized concept, and we have lost the depth of following him and knowing him as a people, as a group, as a community, as a body - we read scriptures and interpret them to our own personal benefit and consistently fail to grasp the depth of the meaning and its implications for the entire body of Christ or as a nation or even as a church body.

for example, to use a very popular verse about God's blessing, take Malachi where it says "you have robbed me of tithes and offerings. test me now in this and see if i will not throw open the gates of heaven and pour out a blessing so great you will not be able to contain it." we read that and pull out the hankies and get all excited about how much God is going to bless us, so we pay our tithes and our hearts are much like playing the slot machines in vegas - we pay our tithes (pulling the handle) in hopes of hitting the jackpot. yet, what we fail to
grasp is the simple fact that God was speaking to the ENTIRE NATION of Israel - not to any particular individual. "yeah, but jeff, can't we apply it in principle?" of course you can, but get past that point you greedy, self-seeking hypocrite! serving God is less about what we get from him and more about what he gets from us!

i mean, seriously, has anyone ever thought about his inheritance from us once we become part of his kingdom and extended body? we as charismatics are great about knowing what we get, and our inheritance, and how God is going to bless us in this and that and we've reduced God to being the spiritual santa claus who's sole purpose is to make our lives better enriched and to give us more stuff. but what about his inheritance in us?

Eph 1:11 "In Him, we were also made His inheritance..."
Eph 1:18 "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints."

So, i believe it's high time we stop worrying so much about "God, what's your will for my life" and start asking "God, what's your will????" and then as he shows us what he's doing in the earth and we become aware of the kingdom of heaven being now and alive in us NOW and us bringing aspects of heaven to earth NOW and living a faith that is NOW, we will then be able to ask "Where do i fit in to that incredible plan?"

we have to get back to the heart of the gospel, which does indeed go well beyond the mere concept of redemption - it's important, but it's only the beginning. let's get back to the message that awakens within each of us that intrinsic desire to give our lives to something so much bigger than ourselves that we would be willing and eager to surrender all to him.

remember, we were made BY him and FOR him.

the follow up

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:22:02 GMT

okay, after kerri read the previous post, she was glad that i ended it the way i did, but she did want me to clarify that she did in fact apologize. i told you - love won.

a what????

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:42:02 GMT

kerri and i are working on this 1000-pc puzzle together - it was kind of a spur of the moment thing, which is why i don't like to let Kerri go shopping late at night because of just such things. but anyway, the other day, i was working on it, and she kind of got upset at me for doing so much of it by myself instead of together and she called me a #@*!%.

so now, here's the whole point to this post - you want to know what she called me - what the #@*!% was, right? and your first inclination may be a few choice words that if you heard her or me say, you might have to catch your breath as you recover from the shock - not necessarily from what you just heard but maybe from the "who" that said it. and it's like we automatically assume that we know what the #@*!% was - that choice word that we wouldn't be caught saying. but truth is, you don't know what the #@*!% was. you have no idea what she called me.

was it "jerk" or was it one of those "really bad words"? does the fact that i typed #@*!% automatically make the word higher up on the chart of "bleep-worthiness"? so maybe the real question at hand now is, what is your impression of Kerri after reading this? to think that she would call me a #@*!% - is it appalling? is it shocking? is it no big deal? am i making this up? does it make you think less of her? does it make you think less of her walk with Christ? but keep in mind, you have no clue what #@*!% represents. we just think we do because you only see #@*!% used to cover up a bad cuss word. so, even if it is one of those, which one is it? does it even matter? are some words more profane than others?

point is, when we hear or see someone doing/saying something that catches us by surprise, is it because we have some sort of image of them that we like to keep and anything that fails to measure up to the standard we hold about someone, we tend to pass judgment on them. we might not say "you're going to hell for that" but we might say "i just don't know if she's as close to God as i thought" or "i don't know if i can trust him as much now" - yet therein, we hold a standard that is shallow and not at all based on what scripture says of should be the standard of those who follow christ - love.

so, back to the #@*!% - if anything, it wasn't so much what she called me, but more it was the fact that love was not the prevailing attitude at that particular moment. but one thing i know about my wife, and that is that she does follow christ and lets him rule in her heart, and needless to say, love won. i've seen more evidence of christ in my wife's life than i have in some people who are so tight about all the wrong things that we use to measure our christian walk.

Monday, January 30, 2006

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:34:21 GMT

I was sitting here watching some TV when i thought about the fact that i haven't posted anything since the original post - i told you, don't expect too much from me on this site. but last week, i started checking out all these other blogs from some of my friends, and i noticed that most of them seemed to leave all these profound thoughts about life or whatever, and i think that's one of the reasons i never post anything - i just don't think i have anything to say.

so today, i thought i would say something. today is sunday, and after we got home from church, we did absolutely nothing all day - nothing in the sense of no chores, no lists, no work - we simply spent the whole day with the boys. after lunch, i laid down with Luke and Kerri laid down with Jacob and we took like a 2 hour nap - after that, we just played with all of Jacob's new toys (it was his birthday yesterday, and it seemed like he racked up more presents on that than he did at Christmas) - what a great day!! just to rest and be with our family and enjoy each other and take time with each other - no hurry to be anywhere - no phone calls - taking our time at dinner and simply enjoying it. and why? because that matters. so there, that's my profound thought of the day.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:21:53 GMT

okay, this is my first post. seriously, don't expect me to post here a lot - i just don't keep up with all these sites too well, but i really want to be able to leave posts on other people's sites, and i couldn't do that without setting up a xanga for us.

so, about us - we are the (in)famous jeff & kerri, or as was pronounced during our wedding: keff & jerri - we are trying to do life as parents now, raising our three boys who are absolutely wonderful, yet there is no manual that can prepare you for life with kids - trying to keep the love between my wife and i completely alive while doing life with two boys who wrestle non-stop and a baby who is either so happy and smiling that your heart melts, or he is screaming at the top of his lungs as he fights going to sleep.

so, i have no idea where this little train of thought came from, but know this, i am completely happy with my life and the way it continues to turns out - i am more alive in my journey as i follow Christ than ever before, and i absolutely love spending time growing old with my beautiful wife and incredible sons.

so, until the next time i post...