I was surfing around and found a really neat site. It lets you play all the vintage NES and arcade style games. Check it out.
http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/
later...
http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/
later...
Monday, July 21, 2003
Saturday, July 12, 2003
I just got home from work and I was surfing around and came acrossed a neat website, Emode.com. They had an IQ. test, so I took it. I'm not sure what it means but I got a 127. The site said:
Then they tried to sell me a "special" IQ report that was going to tell me stuff all about me. Why would someone pay to find out all about themselves? What secrets could they possibly keep themselves from knowing? This feature must be for those with a lower IQ score :)
Anyways, it was fun. Take the test yourself and let me know what you get.
By the way, if you look at the bottom of each post you will see a "No Comment" or "Comment(#)" if you click this you can leave your comments concerning my posts and others can read them and comment on your comments and you on there their's. Sounds like fun eh? Well, try it out.
later....
During the test, you answered four different types of questions — mathematical, visual-spatial, linguistic and logical. We analyzed how you did on those questions, which reveals the way your brain uniquely works.
We also compared your answers with others who have taken the test, and according to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is an Insightful Linguist.
This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. And that's just some of what we know about you from your test results.
Then they tried to sell me a "special" IQ report that was going to tell me stuff all about me. Why would someone pay to find out all about themselves? What secrets could they possibly keep themselves from knowing? This feature must be for those with a lower IQ score :)
Anyways, it was fun. Take the test yourself and let me know what you get.
By the way, if you look at the bottom of each post you will see a "No Comment" or "Comment(#)" if you click this you can leave your comments concerning my posts and others can read them and comment on your comments and you on there their's. Sounds like fun eh? Well, try it out.
later....
Sunday, July 06, 2003
Don't you just love moms? I love mine. She's always there to give me a quick slap on the back of the head when I need it. Even when she's 400 miles away! I recieved an e-mail from her this morning.
It read:
Ouch! That's OK. I needed it. In my frustration I often (and I mean often) vent from my flesh and speak before I think what it is I'm saying. OK! the truth is out; I'm not perfect. Ssshhhhh...don't tell anyone. :) Well, I am sorry if I offended anyone and I have made changes to my previous entry.
Thanks Mom :)
It read:
Just want to point out that you need to refer to your previous entry
regarding the lost. While the people at the parade may have been "idiots"
and very rude people, "the truth is, they are lost". It is certainly much
harder to put inspired words into practice. Just my thoughts.
Love, MOM
Ouch! That's OK. I needed it. In my frustration I often (and I mean often) vent from my flesh and speak before I think what it is I'm saying. OK! the truth is out; I'm not perfect. Ssshhhhh...don't tell anyone. :) Well, I am sorry if I offended anyone and I have made changes to my previous entry.
Thanks Mom :)
Saturday, July 05, 2003
Well, although the day began with disappointment the end went with a bang. (no pun intended :) ) When I got home from work we watched the fireworks and they were pretty good. Here's a play by play I cought on our camera of one from the end.
ooooouuuuuuuuu!!!!
aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!
oooooohhhhhhhh!!!!
They were nice. And then we went to Pastor Jay's house to watch his neighbor burn up a couple paychecks on more fireworks. Now we're home and the family is in bed and I'm relaxing. All in all it was a good day, even with it's minor frustrations.
ooooouuuuuuuuu!!!!
aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!
oooooohhhhhhhh!!!!
They were nice. And then we went to Pastor Jay's house to watch his neighbor burn up a couple paychecks on more fireworks. Now we're home and the family is in bed and I'm relaxing. All in all it was a good day, even with it's minor frustrations.
Friday, July 04, 2003
We just got back from the 4th of July parade here in town and I must say it was less than I had hoped. Not the parade itself, but that we had planned on enjoying it a lot more. We went down an hour and fifteen minutes before it started so that we could have good seats and so the girls could see. And we got a great place.
Here's our view at the beginning of the parade.
The girls were loving it and we were having a good time, then shortly into the parade people started letting their children run into the street and in front of everyone. I really got mad about it. In hind sight I see how stupid it was for me to get so mad, and as I blamed them for ruinning my day, it was actually me and my attitude. Well, lesson learned. Next year I'll remember to take a cattle prod. (just kidding :) )
We're going to grill now and then I have to go to work. Hopefully I can get home in time for fireworks.
later....
Here's our view at the beginning of the parade.
The girls were loving it and we were having a good time, then shortly into the parade people started letting their children run into the street and in front of everyone. I really got mad about it. In hind sight I see how stupid it was for me to get so mad, and as I blamed them for ruinning my day, it was actually me and my attitude. Well, lesson learned. Next year I'll remember to take a cattle prod. (just kidding :) )
We're going to grill now and then I have to go to work. Hopefully I can get home in time for fireworks.
later....
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Lost People Matter. Their value determines your intensity.
When I lose my car keys or my wife loses a contact lens, “operation recovery” immediately goes into effect. I have taken apart traps in bathroom sink drains, returned to restaurants, and even dismantled our living room furniture. On the other hand, when I lose a blue sock deserving retirement anyway, I don’t fret until I find it. The value of lost items determines the intensity of my search-and-rescue efforts.
When the religious leaders of Jesus’ day criticized him for hanging out with sinners, Jesus told three stories about lost items: a lost sheep (Luke 15:1-7), a lost coin (Luke 5:8-10), and a lost son (Luke 15:11-32). The shepherd left 99 sheep in a secure place to search for one lost sheep. He didn’t say, “Oh well, 99 percent isn’t bad. You’re going to lose one once in a while.” The peasant woman swept the reed-covered dirt floor until she spied the lost coin. She didn’t say, “Oh well, it’s only a day’s wage.” The father checked the road for the sign of his lost son’s return. He didn’t say, “Forget him. If he’s going to be such an idiot, then I’ll pour my life into my older son.”
In each case, the value of what was lost dictated an intensive search.
Jesus is saying that the value of lost people demands an intensive search for them. Our failures to reach our communities stem more from faulty perspective than from faulty technique. Intensive searches happen only when we place a premium on the lost item. Technique usually takes care of itself when we share Jesus’ perspective.
When we bump into people during the day, how do we view them? We notice that Todd is unfriendly. The truth is, he is lost. We know that Katie grew up in Buffalo, New York. The truth is, she is lost. We think of Rob as a kind grandfather and a reliable neighbor. The truth is, he is lost.
If people are really lost, and if these lost people are valuable, then an intensive search-and-rescue mission is in order. When we value lost people as Jesus did, outreach will happen, and more people will sing, “I once was lost, but now am found, ’twas blind, but now I see.”
—Steven D. Mathewson
"Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, “Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.” In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents” (Luke 15:8–10).
When I lose my car keys or my wife loses a contact lens, “operation recovery” immediately goes into effect. I have taken apart traps in bathroom sink drains, returned to restaurants, and even dismantled our living room furniture. On the other hand, when I lose a blue sock deserving retirement anyway, I don’t fret until I find it. The value of lost items determines the intensity of my search-and-rescue efforts.
When the religious leaders of Jesus’ day criticized him for hanging out with sinners, Jesus told three stories about lost items: a lost sheep (Luke 15:1-7), a lost coin (Luke 5:8-10), and a lost son (Luke 15:11-32). The shepherd left 99 sheep in a secure place to search for one lost sheep. He didn’t say, “Oh well, 99 percent isn’t bad. You’re going to lose one once in a while.” The peasant woman swept the reed-covered dirt floor until she spied the lost coin. She didn’t say, “Oh well, it’s only a day’s wage.” The father checked the road for the sign of his lost son’s return. He didn’t say, “Forget him. If he’s going to be such an idiot, then I’ll pour my life into my older son.”
In each case, the value of what was lost dictated an intensive search.
Jesus is saying that the value of lost people demands an intensive search for them. Our failures to reach our communities stem more from faulty perspective than from faulty technique. Intensive searches happen only when we place a premium on the lost item. Technique usually takes care of itself when we share Jesus’ perspective.
When we bump into people during the day, how do we view them? We notice that Todd is unfriendly. The truth is, he is lost. We know that Katie grew up in Buffalo, New York. The truth is, she is lost. We think of Rob as a kind grandfather and a reliable neighbor. The truth is, he is lost.
If people are really lost, and if these lost people are valuable, then an intensive search-and-rescue mission is in order. When we value lost people as Jesus did, outreach will happen, and more people will sing, “I once was lost, but now am found, ’twas blind, but now I see.”
—Steven D. Mathewson
Don't You Get It!
Mark 8
Don't you understand yet? What chilling words. Jesus' frustration shows through very clearly. The disciples had seen Him do so much, and yet they lacked faith. They had seen Him feed thousands and yet were concerned that they were going to go without when their supply came up short. Now it is easy to read the stories of the Bible and pick on the disciples and wonder what they were thinking. As if we would have been such better disciples. Remember Peter, the rock in which God built His church, denied even knowing Jesus the very same night he said he was ready to die to protect Jesus. We all have had our moments.
When I see ministers that are seeing great results like salvations, healings and miricles. I have wondered what their secret is. Why I don't see that in my own minstry. I think their secret is simply, they get it. They understand. So what's to understand? Jeus tells us in the next verse.
Mark 11
Did you see it? "Have faith in God" It sounds so simple and it is. But it's not so much the believing part we need to worry about. In the first part of chapter 8 Jesus warns the disciples to not let the yeast of the Pharisees and Harod get into them. What is the yeast you ask? Doubt. Asking in Faith means to ask without doubt. Now all of us would say that they believe God heals, but when we pray for healing don't we in the back of our minds think, "I wonder if it'll work?". Don;t we hesitate when that person in the wheel chair comes up to get prayer? Why? Because we forget who Jesus is and who we are and doubt creaps in.
There is another point made at the end. Jesus tells us before we pray that we need to forgive others first so God can forgive us. This is all about relationships. Not only do we need faith without doubt, but we need to have right relationships between our fellow humans and with God.
So what do we do? We forgive, repent, and do what God has called us to do.
Mark 8
14 But the disciples discovered they had forgotten to bring any food, so there was only one loaf of bread with them in the boat. 15 As they were crossing the lake, Jesus warned them, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod." 16 They decided he was saying this because they hadn't brought any bread. 17 Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he said, "Why are you so worried about having no food? Won't you ever learn or understand? Are your hearts too hard to take it in? 18 'You have eyes – can't you see? You have ears – can't you hear?' F36 Don't you remember anything at all? 19 What about the five thousand men I fed with five loaves of bread? How many baskets of leftovers did you pick up afterward?" "Twelve," they said. 20 "And when I fed the four thousand with seven loaves, how many large baskets of leftovers did you pick up?" "Seven," they said. 21 "Don't you understand even yet?" he asked them.
Don't you understand yet? What chilling words. Jesus' frustration shows through very clearly. The disciples had seen Him do so much, and yet they lacked faith. They had seen Him feed thousands and yet were concerned that they were going to go without when their supply came up short. Now it is easy to read the stories of the Bible and pick on the disciples and wonder what they were thinking. As if we would have been such better disciples. Remember Peter, the rock in which God built His church, denied even knowing Jesus the very same night he said he was ready to die to protect Jesus. We all have had our moments.
When I see ministers that are seeing great results like salvations, healings and miricles. I have wondered what their secret is. Why I don't see that in my own minstry. I think their secret is simply, they get it. They understand. So what's to understand? Jeus tells us in the next verse.
Mark 11
19 That evening Jesus and the disciples left the city. 20 The next morning as they passed by the fig tree he had cursed, the disciples noticed it was withered from the roots. 21 Peter remembered what Jesus had said to the tree on the previous day and exclaimed, "Look, Teacher! The fig tree you cursed has withered!" 22 Then Jesus said to the disciples, "Have faith in God. 23 I assure you that you can say to this mountain, 'May God lift you up and throw you into the sea,' and your command will be obeyed. All that's required is that you really believe and do not doubt in your heart. 24 Listen to me! You can pray for anything, and if you believe, you will have it. 25 But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too. "
Did you see it? "Have faith in God" It sounds so simple and it is. But it's not so much the believing part we need to worry about. In the first part of chapter 8 Jesus warns the disciples to not let the yeast of the Pharisees and Harod get into them. What is the yeast you ask? Doubt. Asking in Faith means to ask without doubt. Now all of us would say that they believe God heals, but when we pray for healing don't we in the back of our minds think, "I wonder if it'll work?". Don;t we hesitate when that person in the wheel chair comes up to get prayer? Why? Because we forget who Jesus is and who we are and doubt creaps in.
There is another point made at the end. Jesus tells us before we pray that we need to forgive others first so God can forgive us. This is all about relationships. Not only do we need faith without doubt, but we need to have right relationships between our fellow humans and with God.
So what do we do? We forgive, repent, and do what God has called us to do.