Heading to CA

Tomorrow morning, I have the inexpressibly wonderful privilege to fellowship with the saints here on the Lakeshore and work through the rest of Luke 6 with them.

Tomorrow evening, I get on a plane to head to the Left Coast for the annual Pastors' Conference.

I simultaneously love and hate this time of year.

I love, I look forward to this time of year - I get to fellowship with brothers-in-arms from all over the planet whom I haven't seen in a year, get to soak in some of the best Biblical teaching around, get "trimmed" (as my brothers Ed Yearack and Roger Ulman like to call it), and partake of the Third Ordinance the Lord left for His church.

Good times.

I hate and dread this time of year, because I'll be apart from my lovely and gracious wife - and now I'll also be apart from my son. Since my lovely and gracious wife has been invited pretty much every year since we've been here planting CC Lakeshore to speak at our pastor's church's Ladies' Retreat, which is held on the weekend before the Murietta Conference, she leaves the Wednesday before I do - so I wind up not seeing her for a week-and-a-half.

Now, this year, I'll be missing my wife and son.

Yeesh.

My plan for this week: some "live blogging" RE: the conference, much like last year, plus "live-Twittering."

Gotta love microblogging.

Now I need to get to sleep - if I can - so that I can be as fresh as possible when 4am rolls around, to head to the church building and finish preps for Sunday morning.

Rock on...

Ideal vs. Real

Great food for thought here.

What It's All About

This is what being the Body is all about.

4:14-dot-Org on Continuationism in Patristic Writings

In reference to the Johnny Mac blogposts about the cessation of the Gifts, y'all might like to read this post at ephesians 4:14, a UK blog from a self-confessedly "reformING evangelical" who happens to be a continuationist and has a really good grasp on patristics.

Of course, I don't agree 100% with the dude - he seems to believe that tongues as currently practiced is not valid, but hey - at least he's mostly right... ;D

Anyway, good read.

Geekin' at Barnes 'n' Noble

So, this is very cool... Maggie and I went to hang out at Barnes and Noble with some friends, and we brought our laptops... and they have a wireless internet connection, so we geeked. God bless technology...

Youth Night, 4/8/06

Youth Night, 4/8/06

We had our second Youth Night of the year... good fun, good fellowship, good message from the Word given by Chuck...

Gathering for fellowship...

...getting ready for the Word...

Chuck teaches on holiness and dedication to Jesus...

...and what would a Youth Night be without burning a plethora of stuff?

Youth Night, 1/27/06

So we had our first youth night in over a year. There was a lot of interest in doing it, a lot of excitement leading up to it... but lots of spiritual warfare. In the week leading up to youth night, and the day of, lots of things came up that kept many families away... and it was a little odd at first having a youth night where the adults outnumbered the youth by a factor of just over 2:1... but God was in it, and we were all very blessed.

Chuck Wiltshire shared from the Word a good exhortation to "get in the Word!"

Then we burned stuff.

Much fun.

Chuck sharing from the Word...

...take 'em to the mattresses...

...more of the mattresses...

The fires grow...

Reba likes the fire...

...and the fire likes Reba.

Joseph gets a wee tad close...

Larry, Master of Fire and Flame