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truth rarely presents itself naked and unashamed...

NBA Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |

So I am watching the cavs game, and I have to say that I am getting a little tired of the NBA. Almost every trip down the court the referees blew the whistle. It was so incredibly frustrating. When did the NBA decide to play by High School Girls Basketball rules? It seems like there has been a emasculation of every major pro sport instead of hockey in US. It's pretty heavy...that's right...heavy.

NFL Broadcasters |

This post is short. I was just thinking the other day that it will be a great day for NFL broadcasters when the majority of TVs in the nation are high-def because they will be free to stand further away from each other and still be in the frame. As it is now they have to stand uncomfortably close to each other. I was watching the other day and the shorter of the two men was forced to look up into the others eyes....creepy. One dude should never have to look up into another dude's eyes. High-def...yes.

thoughts Friday, October 10, 2008 |

I'm heading to Nashville on Monday to begin work on a new record. I'm excited and terrified at the same time. It has been a really long time since I have done anything real towards recording. It seems that life has exploded into my plans and new plans have emerged that have left the old ones a little worse for the wear. I want to make something good this time around. We'll see.

I sat at home by myself this evening and did very little. There are plenty of things I could have done, plenty of things I should have done, but nothing that I wanted to do. So I did nothing.
I am dreading the next two days. I do not want to elaborate too much in this medium for all too see (even though not many people actually read this).

I have too much to do in the next two and a half months. I am finishing up my first degree...hard enough as it is, but Christmas at the Salvation Army is coming. Most Salvation Army people almost make a joke of how busy it is at Christmas, but I think it is disgusting. We use this time of year to be our biggest fundraiser as well as it being the most needful time for the community. I am dreading Christmas and it is ridiculous that church/mission/organization would let that happen. I also have to clep out of four classes...something that I am reassured is not too difficult, but I will not know until I take my first test. I also have to begin applying to grad schools, a task that is proving to be pretty formidable. Oh well. To make matters worse, the NHL season has begun...I am a little excited but will save the real happiness for spring when the NHL becomes all the more magical. The NBA season is fast approaching and the Cavs look like they may be better with their new additions. And of course the NFL has been trudging through their season nicely. So many things to do.

Also, its Star Wars time of year. This is the time of year when Star Wars was payed consistantly every year on USA...Every time I drive to work and it is a cloudy day I wish I was actually heading somewhere to watch Star Wars...

That's all. The laptop is warm and making my lap way too warm, I am getting irritated by it.

Anywho...

Two men walk into a church...which is funny 'cause you'd think the second one would have seen the first one do it. Thursday, October 09, 2008 |

I met with a pastor friend of mine this week and we naturally began talking about church. Right now he is trying to rethink how to do ministry in our city. It really is a very good time. The converstaion made me want to present some thoughts on my own church (as if that is a big surprise to anyone). The issue I have this time around comes from the superiority that exudes from the Sunday morning crowd. We have two distinct and polor opposite church services on Sunday. In the morning we get "the crusties". I say this in full cynisim and contempt and I will probably have to repent of it later, but I am tired of supposed mature Christians acting like infants. The issue with these folks is that they believe that there is nothing wrong with them. They are contenet to complain about anything new, sit in their dedicated seats on Sunday and not care about the dying world around them. I am currently in a Christian Ministry course at school and each book outlines how not to do church. This outline could be called The Salvation Army in Canton, OH. In ten years half the congregation will either be shut in or dead, and another 25 percent will be in their eighties and nineties. They currently do no personal ministry and scoff at any attemp to reach the lost through our Sunday morning service. Further, they do not accept anyone new. Their mantra is, "If you come here, you need to be like us, act like us and if you do not then you are not welcome." All that aside, I must say that I am equally dissapointed in the leadership. Here is why...

We have a wonderful Sunday night service. The average attenders are either homeless, drunkards, drug addicts, hookers, or a combination of them. Many of them come for the food that we provide aftarward. Some of them have recieved Christ. Many of them are striving to live the way that Christ wants them to live and they have found acceptance and fellowship with each other during this time. This is church. The problem is that they are looked upon entirely as an outreach ministry. The "next step" would be to invite them to Sunday morning, which, as I pointed out, could be detrimental to their faith. If Sunday morning has become such a force for negativity, and in my opinion, does more bad than good, what does that say about the state of our church. Meanwhile the people who could be the most effective people in the city ofr Christ are being treated as second class citizens. We are content to keep providing outreach to these poeple without bringing them into the fellowship that is the church. This is a problem. My point is that we have, perhaps inadvertantly, made a sociological barrier that separates the church from the outsiders who we simply evangelize too. The problem that I have is that many of these people have been coming and listening, and sharing, and striving for years and are still looked at as outsiders. I think that ministry to this group of people requires a new thought process. We need to be able to look upon them as a church; as our church.  I believe the crusties and I have more to repent of than any of the people who walk throughthe door on Sunday evening and until we see it that way...well its going to continue to be sad.