New Website!!!

That's right you heard it, I'm laying the old Think-Pad to rest. I have my new site up and running but there are going to to be kinks the next week or so, so please bare with me. You can get to my new site by clicking on the title of this post or by clicking here.

Oh don't for get to update your bookmarks!!

Orange?

Ok, so was the color orange named becasue of the fruit or was the fruit named after the color? And if that is in fact the case why can't I call banannas yellow?

Crikey!

Yes it is true, Steve Irwin the "crocodile Hunter" is dead. And it's kind of surprising his child in that picture isn't. I have to admire Steve for his hard work in making people aware of many different things in nature but come on! You knew it only had to be a matter of time until his profession caught up to him. None the less, R.I.P. Steve.

I had nothing to do with this.

OK everyone go and Google the word "failure" and look at the first hit. Sorry our southern friends.

The New MTV

So I am coming to you from the bubble that is Bethany today. I am here for a week taking a seminar to finish up my in class hours. The seminar I am taking is Global Youth Ministry and so far it has been going very well. We haven't take any notes in the past two days, the prof actually gives us handouts with all the stuff we're covering so in that respect it's been good.

I guess that's all that I have to say about anything right now. I am going to post another music video that I stumbled across like 2 weeks ago. I can't get enough of it. Probably one of the best covers I have heard in a while. Has a lot more passion and feeling than the original. So here it is, Matt Wheedle with Outkast's "Hey-ya."

If You Don't Think This Is Cool, Then You My Friend Are Different

But Christians Use That Parking Lot...(See two posts ago)

This post is in response to some comments that were made on the "Parking Lot for Church Use Only" post.

For the most part I have to agree with what alot of people said in regards to the church as an organization is worried about preserving its beauty and how we are beginning to see a separation of the goats from the sheep. But I have to raise the question, who's making that separation?

Now don't get me wrong I believe that there is some genuine parting of the herd going on however I think sometimes (myself included) can be a little too quick to make that separation ourselves. Now I don't agree with the sign that the church here in town put up in their parking lot, but maybe in their minds they made a good choice based on what they know to be true. I've heard people complain about how the church is a door mat sometimes and that we should stand up a little bit and maybe that's what they were doing. Maybe they are just misled sheep.

So I guess the second question that I have is how do we help those sheep? I mean is it up to me to walk into the church and confront the pastor? I am sure that some people would say rebuking is the best way. Yet others would say that we need to just let that church die a natural death. Heck I've heard that said about a lot of churches lately. Why are we so quick to give up on our own people? No wonder people don't want anything to do with the church today. We split, can't agree, shut people out...maybe we as a younger generation need to be more open minded about things. We get so caught up in the "emerging" church and being "post modern" that sometimes we miss some things, like our roots. We want to cut of the foundation that we came from.

Yes we want to do things differently and that's ok. As time progresses the way that people need to be reached will have to change and evolve to our culture. However, for those of us that grew up in the church, we have had many good things instilled in us by the older generation that we seem to be so anxious to leave. Maybe we should try sticking around and learning some things from them, and you know what, I'm learning that they are at times more willing to learn then we are.