Well a new year's coming and I wanted to start tapping into what this Apple can do so I made a new blog.  You can find it here:

http://web.me.com/pastorpink

It's simple, but I like simple sometimes.  Please go and check it out and tell me what you think.

Yesterday the teshuva went to "The Greatest Taco Bell in the Whole World" and bowling in New Castle, Indiana.  I told everyone that I was going to bowl a 203 and beat the Grime boys but alas my best game was cut short because of a lack of time.  I had four strikes and 2 spares in the first seven frames.  It was going to be close.  

One number I did hit yesterday was my texting record.  214 texts in one day.  I figured it up, I texted 214 times to 30 different people.  I'm guessing that there are more than a few people that are sick of me by now, but that's okay, that's a youth pastor's job.  Modern technology has made ministry to youth a lot more fun and convenient.  

So make sure that you leave a comment if you want about texting, or better yet text me a comment and then all put it up on the comment board.  Just know that if you text me there is a very good chance that you will hear from me again in cyber cell space.  Sorry, that's just the way it goes.

How Marvelous (I Stand Amazed) - Chris Tomlin 

I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene, 

         

And wonder how He could love me, a sinner, condemned, unclean. 

How marvelous! How wonderful!  And my song shall ever be, 

How marvelous! How wonderful!  Is my Savior·s love for me! 

He took my sins and my sorrows, He made them His very own; 

      

He bore the burden to Calvary, and suffered and died alone. 

When with the ransomed in glory His face I at last shall see, 

            

Twill be my joy through the ages to sing of His love for me. 

"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior."  Habakkuk 3:17-18

I love the way verse 18 is written in the literal:

Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my salvation.

Habakkuk is an interesting little book.  Three chapters all dwindling down to joy in Jehovah!  

1.  Itunes gift cards

2.  Books or Book store gift cards

3.  Pink Iphone case

4.  A heavy zip up hoodie

5.  Artsy photography to hang in my new office

6.  A business card holder (you know, a really cool looking one)

7.  Really cool paper

8.  A first edition C.S. Lewis book

9.  A cool new Bible

10.  A magazine subscription (I love good Christian magazines)

Do you just throw your garbage on the ground in public?  When was the last time you got through with a wrapper or some other object and decided to just wad it up and throw it on the ground?  I honestly can't remember the last time I littered.  Not only that but I can't remember watching someone else throw garbage on the ground.  Except for one notable exception.  Smokers.  Why is it that smokers think they can just throw their butts anywhere they want?  I just saw it the other day in the Walmart parking lot.  A man in his 60s was getting into his car, finished off his cigarette, and then just flicked it on the ground.  Why do we stand for this?  Why don't we say something?  Better yet why don't we as a people everywhere put our foot down and make it known widely that throwing cigarettes on the ground is littering and should not be tolerated?  You know this may just be something that I call the news or the papers about.  We need this to be taken care of.  I assure you that if everyone in the world just started throwing their trash all over the ground that we wouldn't just stand for that.  Why do we stand for smokers doing it?