Month: March 2008

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Blogging

Friday Night Blogroll Review

It’s Friday night friends, so that means it’s time for me to highlight some of my favourite bloggers with some of their best blog entries of this past week:

Travis presents a 4½-minute video shot by the Ritz Man of our ‘Moonlight Easter Egg Hunt’ at Harris Field last Friday night. This is the G-rated version. The TV-14 version was (thankfully) not captured on tape.

Kelly gave me a hard time about not wearing my light-blue ‘CHURCH ROCKS !‘ tee-shirt at the aforementioned event. Travis stated that I can have an ‘I Survived The 2008 Moonlight Easter Egg Hunt’ tee-shirt once it rolls off of the presses. I’ll have to make sure that Kelly sees me wearing that or else there will be trouble ! 

Phil is all about various thoughts – a ‘Deep Thought‘ on Wednesday, a bunch of ‘Scattered Thoughts‘ on Thursday, and a collection of leftover ‘Smothered Thoughts‘ on Friday. I am flattered that P.J. has taken my ‘Tuesday Night’ mainstay and run with it on his blog. He’s cool like that !

Nathan is on God’s ‘V.I.P. List’ so that no bouncer is going to stop him from talking to Jesus on a regular basis.

Harmony has all of the pictures from InDependence Church’s Easter Sunday celebration at a local park in Weston.

Gary Lamb tells the mad crazy story of how his church’s Easter Egg Drop went down last Saturday up in Canton Georgia. What you are about to read could SHOCK you !  You are there as you check out the unbelievable saga in two parts – Part 1 and Part 2. You have been warned !

Categories
God

Bedtime Stories

We have a lot of fun here on this blog, and we also learn a lot too. There’s a time and a place for everything that’s good, and now is the time to be serious for a little while as I openly pray to God in these humble words of this particular moment in time:

Lord. It’s me again. Your buddy Chris. Over 19 months ago during the Summer Of 2006 I set course on a new Life (always capitalized). A new beginning. A rebirthing. An awakening. I awoke from the darkness that was so dominant during the first 39 years of my life (intentionally not capitalized). The dawn of my new Life began, and I was saved by You. You showed me. You guided me. You directed me. I put You in charge, and You have never let me down Lord. You have given me a purpose-filled Life. You have made me feel important and worthy for the first time in my Life.

Thank You Lord for introducing me to Life Pointe Church over 14 months ago and all of my loving friends and family. I never imagined that this Life could be attainable, but You have created this miracle, and I shall cherish it forever. You have given me some amazing people in this new Life such as J.T., Anne, Travis, Kelly, Phil, Marcela, Paul, Annie, Jesse, Reina, Alex, Ela, Nancy, Arlene, Hattie, Jonathan, Lillian, Venus, Kristina, Mark, Terry, Patricia, Lisa, Luciana, Casey, David, Tom, Nathan, Harmony, and the list just goes on and on and on. I didn’t know any of these loving people in 2006, but now they are all an integral part of this awesome Life of mine. I owe it all to You, for You Lord are the King of Kings – the most Almighty of them all. There is no other like You Lord.

Thank You God for giving up Your only Son on that raw and bloody cross so that my friends and I could live – I mean really live to honour Your true greatness. When non-believers see me and my friends they should be able to see Jesus Christ on Earth – living Life to its fullest extent and radically changing the world for the better.

Lord we are Your eyes, mouths, arms, hands, legs, and feet on Your glorious Earth that You created over 2,000 years ago. I am so truly blessed to be able to carry out Your mission day and night. I am so truly blessed to be one of Your disciples here on Earth. I am so truly blessed to be able to call You my Father. Thank You Lord for everything that You have provided me all throughout Your fantastic journey.

I love You God more than anyone or anything. Thank You for this day. Thank You for this night. I pray to You that all of my friends and family will be safe and peaceful on this night. Please provide them with what they need to carry out Your mission here on Earth. Please watch over them, and protect them from the evils and the darkness of this world.

I pray for all of this in the loving and caring name of You Lord God Almighty. AMEN.

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Driving Hoaxes Internet

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

This is an Internet hoax:

DON’T FLASH HEADLIGHTS AT ANY CAR WITH NO LIGHTS ON!!

Police officers working with the DARE program have
issued this Warning:

If you are driving after dark and see an on-coming car with no headlights on, DO NOT FLASH YOUR LIGHTS AT THEM! This is a common ‘Bloods’ member ‘initiation game’ that goes like this:  The new gang member under initiation drives along with no headlights, and the first car to flash their headlights at him is now his ‘target.’ He is now required to turn around and chase and spot that car, then shoot and kill every individual in the vehicle in order to complete his initiation requirements. Police Departments across the nation are being warned. Their intent is to have all the new bloods nationwide drive around on Friday and Saturday nights with their headlights off.

In order to be accepted into the gang, they have to shoot and kill all individuals in the first auto that does a courtesy flash to warn them that their lights are off.

Make sure you share this information with all the drivers in your family!

Please forward this message to all your friends and family members to inform them about this initiation ritual. They are also known to drive with high beams on and will do the same as indicated above.

This Internet hoax has been in existence since 1998, and fresh new variants of it keep appearing in E-Mail Inboxes worldwide to this date. What was an Internet hoax in 1998 is still an Internet hoax in 2008. Hit that [DELETE] key upon receipt of it !

Read more about it.

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Humor People

Bedtime Stories

Me:  Hey I noticed that you’ve been blogging up a storm recently as the Ol’ Atom-Splitter over on Phil’s blog. Do you know about my blog ?  How ’bout dropping a comment or two on mine sometime ?

J.T.:  Oh I don’t have time to be reading blogs. I’m a busy man these days.

Me:  There’s only 3 blogs that you need to be reading – Travis’s, Phil’s, and mine. You know those of your 3 sons.

J.T.:  I have a 3RD son now ?

Me:  Yes I’m your oldest son, and Trav and P.J. are my younger brothers.

J.T.:  Well as my oldest son then it’s up to you to care for me when I get older and can’t care for myself – oh yeah and vacuum my living room.

Me:  Well as your oldest son then I should be invited to dinner sometime so that we can look at old pictures of us that I’m not in – and then I can vacuum your living room afterwards.

J.T.:  We can do that. Hey Anne did you know that we have an adopted 3RD son now ?  The Johnson Family just keeps getting bigger at Life Pointe.

Anne:  Of course we do. Have a great night son. I’ll see you bright and early on Sunday morning.

Me:  I’ll be there !