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jim elliot said...
he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
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about me
jambo. jina langu ni
clay noe.
i'm 29. i like chai, missions, adventure sports, curry, democracy, text messaging, hiking, a good hoodie, my church and kentucky basketball.
i do not like olives, injustice, dumb drivers, golf, liars, wearing suits for prolonged periods of time, or duke basketball.
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kentucky is #8! it's a good day for the SEC.
i got to sleep in this morning. i had a break from running media and i took advantage of it.
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11:00 service was great. the worship set was because of who You are and god of wonders. good stuff.
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i learned that i'm going to have to start sitting in the front of the church instead of toward the middle or back of the church. i get distracted too easily. especially by a large woman who consistently feels the need to talk to others around her while pastor is preaching. i wanted to get up and tell her to keep her trap shut. but i didn't.
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we learned today that strongholds are established in our minds. behind every stronghold is a lie. behind the lie is fear. behind the fear is an idol. the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds - 2 corinthians 10:4
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after lunch i took my younger nephew hiking. as we were walking through the forest, he randomly started singing shouting "I DON'T KNOW BUT I'VE BEEN TOLD, JESUS CHRIST CAN SAVE YOUR SOUL...". i had to laugh out loud.
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jesus, i love you and all, but i'm not going to church tonight. i've been to church every night for the past seven nights and i'm just not going anywhere tonight. we had campmeeting at new vision ministry center sunday through friday of last week. last night i was at southeast christian church supporting my brother-in-law. it was his first service leading the 200+ voice choir and the 30+ member orchestra. they did a great job. kudos to bob.
my younger nephew fell asleep during church tonight. how? i have no idea. it was loud and crazy at church, but when he's sleepy - BOOM - he's out like a light.
when we got home, he plopped on the floor like this. his feet look uncomfortable. and where are his arms?
i don't believe i could sleep like this. too awkward.
if You say go, we will go
if You say wait, we will wait
if You say step out on the water
and they say it can't be done
we'll fix our eyes on You and we will come
- diane thiel
 this is david jacques, young adult minister at new destiny christian center in apopka, florida, and he preached at church tonight. he did a good job, but i honestly quit listening after he said "what good is a blessing if you can't handle it?"
WHOA! i've prayed and prayed and prayed for the big kahuna to bless me with different things. but what if i couldn't handle the blessing, so the Lord didn't give it to me when i asked Him for it?
so now it's almost 1am and i'm up thinking. processing. pondering.
my blogger's been broken for the past two days. don't know what happened, but my ubercool-urban-childrens-pastor-friend in the big apple healed it.
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i had to go to the podiatrist today to have a minor procedure performed. i'm not a foot person, by any stretch of the imagination, and having somebody else touch my foot was odd. i've got a bandage wrapped around my foot and i can't get it wet for the next 24 hours. it doesn't hurt, but it's sore where he used the scalpal.
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campmeeting is this week at my church. the youth have ministered in drama each night and they amaze me. amaze. me.
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i'm thinking about attending a service at lifechurch.tv soon. it's a church based out of oklahoma city that has "internet campus". i a little skeptical about attending a church service via broadband, but i atleast want to give it a try.
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this time in two weeks i'll be in utah. word.
2007 ncaa football rankings - ap top 25:
14. kentucky
15. georgia
22. alabama
university of louisville isn't in the top 25 anymore. so sad, so sad. they have a nose-down attitude. they should adjust their attitude indicator.
i've had gas all day long. for real. bad gas.
what makes this interesting is that my girlfriend is here this weekend visiting me. i'd try to casually walk away and fart, but it was the kind that lingered. well, hovered really like a news helicopter covering a car chase through a school zone.
i'm just glad she didn't go home after the first few hairs on her head were singed.
integrity. rectitude. moral uprightness. principle. different words that pretty much mean the same thing. i'm noticing these, or the lack of these, in myself and in others lately.
i get frustrated when people don't keep their word. if you say you're going to do something, then do it. if you can't do it, then tell me you can't do it. communicating the fact that you can't do something you said you were going to do is much better, atleast in my book, than ignoring the situation all together and not communicating at all.
but i'm guilty sometimes of the same exact thing. i'll tell somebody i'm going to do something and then forget about it. i don't do it on purpose, but sometimes i just forget. forgetting is a fact of life.
the problem comes when people (myself included) make a habit of not keeping their word. does it take concentration? yes. does it take planning? yes. does it involve telling people "no" sometimes? yes. but it is imperative, especially for christians, to keep their word.
i don't want to be "another one of those christians who lie, cheat and steal".
i've seen this all over the blogosphere lately. a blog stalker of mine (jk JC) emailed it to me too.
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain in to joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.
wow. good stuff.
5:25am - get to airport
6:30 - lift off
8:30 - land
8:55 - catch the train
9:10 - catch the bus
9:30 - pick-up my rental car
11:00 - meeting starts
2:00pm - meeting ends
3:00 - drop-off rental car
3:20 - catch the bus
3:35 - catch the train
6:30 - board plane, then sit on tarmac
8:00 - lift off
10:00 - land
10:33 - blog
so i just finished reading reaching the world in our own backyard: a guide to building relationships with people of other faiths and cultures. overall it was a pretty good book. but it's one that i would have read in my missions 101 class at lee. it did remind me of the importance of being culturally sensitive to people of other faiths and cultures.
i'm around hindu's and muslim's everyday. i have relationships with them. i understand their faith. but do they understand mine? what kind of example have i been?
there's a lot of people in louisville of other faiths and cultures. there's a lot of work to do...
i need a favor.
i'll be out of town tomorrow and won't be able to attend church. can you please take your cameras to church tomorrow night and take pictures of pastor wearing an anointed university of kentucky jersey, then email them to me? if you don't have a camera, take a picture with your phone and text it to me.
if you don't have a digital camera or a camera phone, then let me introduce you to the twenty-first century.
¡gracias y adiós!
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so for the past few days around 3pm, i've been getting a craving for chocolate donuts. you know, the little ones you can get out of a vending maching for $0.50? then i get a mountain dew.
yum yum.
i've watched more football today than i have any other day in my entire life.
my elder nephew played at 9am and won. my younger nephew played at 1:30 and lost. kentucky played at 7:30 and won.
oh yeah. that's all i've got to say about that.
 the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me and told me that the forces of darkness would come upon our pastor tonight. He told me that i should prepare an image to go up on the screens tonight during church when the forces of darkness launched their attack. so when they did, this image miraculously appeared on the screens just like the virgin mary appears on grilled cheese sandwiches.
praise God for the university of kentucky wildcats! for truly they shall defeat the enemy, the university of louisville cardinals, this weekend.
come on saints, lets praise Him now for the victory that He's all ready provided!
first of all, if you don't read ragamuffin soul then you don't know what you're missing. his blog makes mine look like crap. no joke. he recently joined the staff of buckhead church in the ATL. they're the church that has their own ringtone. how cool is that!?!?
but anyway, this particular post is hi.lar.i.ous. you should read it now.
 six years ago this morning, my aunt and uncle dropped me off at work. i went inside and chatted with my boss before she went to class. i checked my email and tried to organize my day when i heard dr. wickam say that a plane had crashed into the world trade center.
little did i know that ana soria and her twelve year old son, luis eduardo, would never be the same.
luis alfonso chimbo, loving husband to ana soria and wonderful father to luis eduardo, graduated from college in his homeland of ecuador with a degree in microbiology. after unsuccessfully trying to find employment, he decided to move to america. he was a receiving attendant at windows on the world. september 11, 2001 was his first day back at work after being off for a month to take care of his wife, who was expecting a child. she miscarried for the fifth time.
a few months after luis alfonso didn't come home from work, luis eduardo attended a camp where he was going to play the violin in honor of his dad. he couldn't play. silently he cried. and honored his father.
luis alfonso chimbo, 39, confirmed dead.
i'm so proud of my church.
pastor curtis was out of town today, so rorey and his group filled in and did a great job. we were definitely influenced by the islands today now mon.
why am i so proud? a large portion of the congregation clapped on two and four instead of one and three. wow!!! we need island influence more often i do believe.
clap your hands if you love Jesus
clap your hands if you really love Jesus
i realized today that i'm co-dependent. not on an individual though, but on my phone.
i left it at the house this morning by accident. when i realized i had left it by my bed (always within arms length), it was too late to go back and get it. all day long i felt like i was going crazy! i kept wondering who has called? who has sent me a text message or 3?
as soon as i got home i grabbed my phone to see the damage. seven missed calls. three voicemails. zero text's.
what did we do before cell phones?
do you ever find yourself shocked at yourself for how you've dealt with a certain situation? i have. twice in the past week.
the first was at the funeral i went to a few days ago. the organ music was playing in the background. people were sitting down with tissues in hand. you could hear sniffles. the preacher got up and started to read the eulogy when all of a sudden - beep. beep. beep. beep. somebody's alarm on their watch started going off. beep. beep. did they turn it off like a normal human being would do? NO. beep. beep. i started laughing. laughing a lot. my shoulders were bouncing up and down i was laughing so hard all the while trying not to make any noise. you know what i'm talking about. i was covering my face with my hand and a crumpled tissue praying, lord, please let people think i'm just distraught over the death. please don't let them know i'm laughing at a funeral.
the second was an uber-important meeting i had last week. there were about 30 people in the room and i did it again. laughter at the most inopportune time. only this time i didn't have a tissue to cover my face with or a death on which to blame my "grief".
it's interesting to me how we can be in a situation and think we'll know exactly how we'll handle it. but then when we're actually put in the situation, we find ourselves doing something completely contrary.
peter thought he wouldn't deny Jesus. but when push came to shove and the cock crowed, denying Him was all he could do.
i guess it just all goes to prove that we don't always have everything figured out. i know i don't have it all figured out. (although sometimes i like to think i do.)
the payment i made was posted to my online account in real time.
we sang a song on sunday morning that i haven't been able to get out of my head.
where the Spirit of the Lord is
there is freedom
if you're tired and thirsty
there is freedom
freedom reigns in this place
showers of mercy and grace
they are falling on every face
there is freedom
every time i've gone to pray since hearing this song all i can seem to do is pray for freedom. not necessarily for myself, but for those in my city who don't know Him yet. for persecuted christians in china, afghanistan and saudi arabia. for those bound in whatever.
so lift your eyes to heaven
there is freedom
give your all to Jesus
there is freedom
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