Got the newest pictures of the kids up for your perusal. See Flickr strip to the left. Click on any picture & you can get to our photostream (in blue to the right on that page) to see all. As you can see, Nate got glasses, Callie got a hair cut, & Anders lost a front tooth – first one! There are two pages, including cousin’s birthday party at the carousel & corn husking party pix, so take your time. : ]
I am so excited about the things God’s been teaching & working in us lately. Two basic areas: prayer and missions. If you have time, please listen to these two messages from the Alliance Conference this last year. EXCELLENT!! Keith listened to them & had to download them for us to hear this summer on our travels. Both of us have been so encouraged & challenged by them, we’ve listened to them a couple times since individually as well (something I don’t usually do – listen multiple times to a sermon). Yes, they are that good!
The first message is on prayer by Pastor Mike Phillips. Go here to listen. My favorite line, “I don’t have no clue!!” You’ll just have to listen to get it.
The second message is on taking risks by Dr. Richard Swenson. Go here to listen. “It isn’t what you think it is.”
Prepare to be challenged, moved, & thrilled to tears by the Spirit. : ]
If you have even more time, the second message on risk taking reminds me of a PBS series I saw “by accident” about five years back (again, it is that good I’m still excited about it!) & found the whole thing on line about science’s thoughts on the dimension beyond what our eyes can see – exciting stuff from the world’s perspective. They don’ know how to explain it but they know there’s more to this life than meets the eye. We as Bible believers know exactly what it is – the spiritual realm. It’s three hours long, but well worth watching & you can watch it in ten minutes segments. Go here to watch. If nothing else, scroll down through the chapter titles & see if your curiosity isn’t stirred. When you watch it in light of God’s Word, it is so exciting!!
Finally got the summer pictures downloaded. Anyone interested in what we’ve been up to this summer, see Flickr photos to the left. Be sure to double click the strip so you can get to the seven pages of pictures available! (Click “photostream” in blue to make it easier after you double click.)
Have you listened to Seeds Family Worship yet? Click here for more about it. To hear some samples, scroll down a bit to get to the audio box here. We have been LOVING these CDs this summer. All the way to/from & in between MN & OH, we worship/learned scripture/jammed to these awesome songs. It is so fun to be able to have God speak to you through a song popping into your mind during the day (& actually know the address too – a long time challenge for me personally)! And we are all learning the verses together. God uses music to get to my heart, I don’t know about you. Let me say again how I love the appeal these songs have to kids & parents alike.
If you are wanting to buy some Seeds CDs for your family, let me suggest two things: 1) Make sure you order the one with the stick people on the cover. That way you get two copies – one for you & one to give away, or in our case, one for home & one for Keith to take to his classroom. 2) It’s cheaper at CBD, but the Seeds company gave me a coupon to get 20% off (making it the same deal) & said I could pass it on to anyone else who would want to use it, too. They are fast!! We ordered & received ours in two days flat. Here’s the code to get 20% off at Seeds: LWAYNE09 It expires February 10th, 2010.
Happy listening/learning!!
Happy first birthday, Jack! Here’s a video of a few of your peeps celebrating the big day…
38 new pictures have been downloaded for your enjoyment at Flickr or just see to the left there. These have all been taken in May & June of 2009. Included are pictures of our recent trip to the zoo (AWESOME zoo, by the way), crazy antics the young ‘uns have been up to, Nate’s “Transmofgifier” (time machine he made completely out of recyclable materials), Callie’s winning crazy hair entry, a memorial day picture, Flat Stanley excursion, and Mother’s Day at school with Callie & Grandma W. So I’m two weeks behind on my goal of getting them on line at the end of the month. You could say I’m two weeks early at getting June’s on. It’s all in how you look at it. Look for the next installment of pictures mid July hopefully.
Again, be sure & flip through ALL the pictures. You wouldn’t want to miss this kind of stuff on photo page three…
“Can the cousins come out to play?” – Anders calling Aunt Valerie. See the cell phone? Didn’t know Vader was on the other end of the line, did you?
I love this music! The idea behind it is: 1) make music the whole family can use together & enjoy & 2) create songs entirely from Scripture. There are five albums out currently. Oh, and when you buy their CDs, they give you two; one for you & one to give to a friend. (Note, learned the hard way that there are two different covers. If you want to have the two CDs, get the edition with the stick guy on it!) Fun! Here’s their site, & here’s a sample for you. Enjoy.
I hesitated linking this because I heard it a day late & figured it was “old news”. Come to find out, only 33,000 have heard even part one on youtube so far (two days after) and so I link. This so needs to reverberate through the airwaves of this great nation. There are ten parts and every one of them well worth taking the time to hear. If you have the time, please listen to all ten.
Listen to part two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten here.
1. My country,’ tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrims’ pride,
from every mountainside let freedom ring!2. My native country, thee,
land of the noble free, thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
thy woods and templed hills;
my heart with rapture thrills, like that above.3. Let music swell the breeze,
and ring from all the trees sweet freedom’s song;
let mortal tongues awake;
let all that breathe partake;
let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.4. Our fathers’ God, to thee,
author of liberty, to thee we sing;
long may our land be bright
with freedom’s holy light;
protect us by thy might, great God, our King.
I guess San Diego County has apologized for telling a pastor & his wife they couldn’t hold a home Bible study without a permit costing big bucks. Read the article here. Since I wrote about it here, thought I should pass along the latest info on it.
