Month: August 2005

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Fitzhugh

Amazing. . .
Okay I confess I’m a doubter. . . I just couldn’t believe it would happen. . .

How wrong I was. . .

🙂

It’s good to be wrong. . .

Okay about 4 months ago we came back from a retreat. . . One of the men really got excited and single handedly annouced a pay off the debt campaign. . . We are a small church and had a $30k mortgage on a Family Life Center we built in 96. So I think okay this is good. . . but you know 3 months and 2 weeks went by and we still have $16k left to go. . . So 2 weeks ago our Pastor annouces we are going to pay off this debt in 2 weeks. . . And I have to say I was a doubter. . . Oh how little faith I have. . .

But God is good, and we had all the remaining amount come in yesterday. . . Which after the week before was still approximately $14,500 . . Wow God is very good. . . Now for a Church where the average weekly offering is $2,500 to $3,500 a week that was a really good week. . .

Go God. . .

Okay so now we are in the 29th fastest growing county in the Country, right smack in the middle of 3 growing Hill Country Suburbs and seeing a daily influx of new faces pass into our community. . .

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C. . .

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Found Faithful 2005

Moreover it is required of stewards that one be found faithful (NKJV)
1 Corinthians 4:2

I taught a lesson on this verse and Zechariah 7:4-10 which I blogged about a few days ago. ( We have a Prayer Breakfast every Fri at our Church. )

There were a few points that caught my attention on this but verse 5 speaks of God knowing the motives of our heart. . . Also in Zechariah 7, God is chastising the Religious Jews in captivity about just Fasting and Going through the motions. . .

That’s what God is speaking to me about. . . Don’t go through the motions, cause God knows my heart and He knows yours? If I say I am a Christian. . . then God knows the motives of our inmost being of why we take certain actions. . .It isn’t for us to judge our fellow believer on their Godliness, it is to God to judge the believer and the unbeliever. . . But it is up to us to share what we know. . .

I’ve heard an adage from my Preacher in Mesquite when I was growing up. . . He would say (and I’m sure he took this from someone . . . :))

“You know I’m just a blind beggar, showing another blind beggar where to find some bread. The Bread of Life.”

I believe its true. . .

C

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More Stupid Blog Things . . .

The Keys to Your Heart
You are attracted to obedience and warmth.
In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you’re told that you’re loved.
You’d like to your lover to think you are optimistic and happy.
You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please.
Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything… no secrets.
Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.
You think of marriage as something precious. You’ll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred.
In this moment, you think of love as something you don’t need. You just feel like flirting around and playing right now.

Amazingly enough . . . I think I agree with everything but the last statement. . . But I’m already married so it was thrown completely off! 🙂

C

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Blog Things Are Not Addictive > :) NOT


You Belong in 1974


1974


If you scored…

1950 – 1959: You’re fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

1960 – 1969: You are a free spirit with a huge heart. Love, peace, and happiness rule – oh, and drugs too.

1970 – 1979: Bold and brash, you take life by the horns. Whether you’re partying or protesting, you give it your all!

1980 – 1989: Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You’re colorful at night – and successful during the day.

1990 – 1999: With you anything goes! You’re grunge one day, ghetto fabulous the next. It’s all good!

Those that know me well will laugh. . . I didn’t trick the answers they were my real first answers.
🙂

C

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Self-Checkout

I saw a post on Anandtech and I answered with this story. ..

I like the self-checkout since you only have to check out yourself not anyone else.
If you consider time saved depending on the regular lines versus checking yourself out that may be incentive enough.

Of course there are times like yesterday when my wife strolled into Albertson’s at a quarter till 7:00. She merrily went to shopping for the few quick items we needed to pickup for a meeting at 7:00, but when she goes to check out. The lines are outrageously long down the aisles and around the corner. . . What happened? . . .

(Well about 5 months ago Albertson’s decided to save some money) They installed 8 used self cashier stations they moved from the D/FW area. . . (The welcome screens had local info to the DFW metroplex untill a few weeks later) But yesterday something happened. . . guess what the self check out lanes called in sick! ha ha, well something technical happened and they were all broken at the same time. . . Genius. . .Well Albertson’s now had 2 cashiers to deal with an regular evening rush when they would have 6 to 8 cashiers before the automated checkouts were installed (sorry human cashiers) I guess they were moved to other positions or lost their jobs. . .

Long Story Short, my wife walked out without any of the snacks for the meeting our group had to go hungry last night and Albertson’s lost $10 to $15 sale. .. not much, but that was just us.

Our local Wal Mart’s don’t seem to function under this same assumption (Albertson’s Management used). . . I think all 16 of the Wal Mart Self Checking stations could be broken and they would still have plenty of cashiers. . . but they just opened 2 more SuperCenter’s so maybe that’s helped alleviate the rush of customers. . .

C

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Connections

It’s interesting how connections work. . .

like I was browsing brazospointe.com cause Greg, was Misty’s youth minister in Texas and he officiated at our wedding . . . from their I linked to www.picksblog.blogspot.com and www.stunz.blogspot.com which are Greg’s blog and Tommy Stunz a man I’ve never met. . . but since Misty is my wife and Greg was her Youth minister, here I am writing about and reading someone’s blog I never met. . . and you know what it was good. . .

“Sometimes this feels like a narcissistic pursuit. Who in the world would want to read anything I write, especially when it’s about me or what I think.”

Okay I know this is simplistic, but ditto . . .

later,
C