Aaron Ivy – Worship Band

Aaron Ivy – Worship Band, originally uploaded by Doug Klembara.

Here is Aaron Ivy at Kyle Field in Aggieland. Doug Klembara (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougklembara/) took this picture and some others. He estimates the crowd at 7K.

ben rector is free fallin’

cool stuff (I don’t know why vimeo videos won’t embed for me. either I am doing it wrong or wordpress doesn’t support it, but click through the link before or the one after to see it.)
Ben Rector – Free from TK McKamy on Vimeo.
more tunes from Ben

price of perpetual boyhood

Amy Holmes is wondering if there is a price for men to pay in their pursuit of perpetual adolescence. Inher post on The Corner she says about the death of DJ AM [Adam Goldstein]:
But consider: He died a 36-year-old millionaire with luxury homes on both coasts. No wife. No children. The quintessential boy-man. He [...]

friday fotoes

a pelican swooping over the water last Tuesday morning

more macro flowers

and a monochromatic sunstar from the old film camera

Last morning

The last morning here and Joseph and I decided to see if the fish bite early. First we had to clear ourselves a place and the we got busy. Not too much luck, but I did finally catch a bass. A little one.

Still Fishin

Still out here fishing. So far we have only caught perch. The river was coming up some last night. Maybe it washed some bass downstream. Here’s hoping. We will probably head up to Lake Whitney for a swim sometime today.
In case you didn’t know, it is still [...]

Vacation

We came up yesterday to my parents’ river house northwest of Waco. Going to spend a few days catching fish and laying around. Too hot to do much outside. But it sure is pretty here.

free music

Resurgence is starting a music wing called Re:Sound. To kick things off, they are giving away a free EP of eight songs.
I just downloaded them and have listened to the first two. Interesting.

friday fotoes

My lovely wife and I celebrated 20 wonderful years of wedded bliss last weekend in Grapevine at the Gaylord Texan.

and the sky was really funky one evening this week

here we are on self timer

God saves bad people (hallelujah!)

here is a word from Dr. Art Azurdia III courtesy of the Ramblin’ Pastor Man.

Romans 5:1-11:
1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we [...]

Fireproof’s review by the NYT

surprisingly positive.
“Fireproof” may not be the most profound movie ever made, but it does have its commendable elements, including that rarest of creatures on the big (or small) screen: characters with a strong, conservative Christian faith who don’t sound crazy.
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Only at the end do the filmmakers get heavy-handed. Until then, though, this is a decent [...]

foto friday

here is Austin City Hall’s “stinger”

and here is Pluto enjoying Bull Creek.

Transparency is worth zero if you have no passion

Michelle Greer has a great post up about “transparency in marketing.” (warning, a mild expletive)
Her point is that the latest marketing buzzword means nothing to a person/company that is bored with or dislikes their own product. Here is some of what she says but go read all of it:
People are not stupid and they [...]

Gray morning

A little cooler, but much more humid this morning. Hopefully we will get some real rain today.

ouch

too true

blaming others

Ben at Desiring God blog posted 12 sins we blame on others. Here are the first few:
1) Anger
I wouldn’t lose my temper if my co-workers were easier to get along with, or if my kids behaved better, or if my spouse were more considerate.
2) Impatience
I would be a very patient person if [...]

a musical interlude

Thanks to the Justin Cofield Band I am obsessing over this song. I just can’t get enough of it. I haven’t obsessed over a song like this since this one and this one. I can’t link to the other song I have been obsessing over because it isn’t for sale anymore, [...]

new page/rock of offense

I just put up a longer piece on a new page that I wrote back in 2005 about Jesus and the woman at the well. The tab is above.

one of the things I like about Austin

The pagans are pagans and proud of it. I saw this bumper sticker in traffic earlier this year and took a picture of it with my iPhone (great little phone and minicomputer, not such a great camera) so the quality isn’t that great. what it says is “Pagan and Proud.”

Vista Church podcasts

I am trying an experiment to see if I can link to the Apple Store. If I am doing this right, this link ought to take you to the Vista Church podcasts in the iTunes store. If you get there, download and listen to the Nehemiah series, they are great.

Test from the iPhone

Walking with Julie right now and testing the wordpress application for iPhone blogging. Beautiful day so far.

Hospitality

In our bible study this morning we talked a little bit about hospitality.  We are studying Hebrews and we have arrived at chapter 13 verse 2.
This passage seems to echo the instruction of I Peter 4:7-9 that we keep our love for one another at full strength and don’t neglect to show hospitality. One [...]

Piper is coming to town

John Piper is coming to Austin in October.

thanks to Frank for letting me know.

tribal or missionary minded

This post by the Rambling Pastor Man pointed me to this post by Tullian Tchividjian.
Tullian’s post is an extended excerpt from his forthcoming book Unfashionable. It explores the difference between being tribally minded and missionary minded.
Here is a quote, but you really should go read the whole post.
“[I]n order for us to experience the [...]

My Role

Chris Marlow wants to know what we think our role in the Kingdom of Heaven is.
I think mine is the same as or similar to these guys
I have enjoyed teaching the Bible over the years and I look forward to doing so again in the future.