{Idea taken from James via Shannon}
O GOD, who declarest thy almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity; Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we, running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy gracious promises, and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Refrain
We come to share our story,
We come to break the bread,
We come to know our rising form the dead.
We come as your people,
We come as your own,
United with each other
Love finds a home.
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We are called to heal the broken,
To be hope for the poor,
We are called to feed the hungry
At our door.
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Bread of life and cup of promise,
In this meal we all are one.
In our dying and our rising,
May your kingdom come.
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You will lead and we shall follow,
you will be the breath of life;
Living water, we are thirsting
For you light.
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We will live and sing your praises,
"Alleluia" is our song.
May we live in lov and peace our
Whole life long.
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1. Are you going to school this year? Nope.
2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate? HS - 1998; La Tech - 2002
3. What are/were your favorite school subjects? I liked math, but wasn't the best at it; and I loved my Art History class in HS; and of course everybody liked recess
4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects? Anything to do with writing, Econ, marketing.
5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite? The first one that comes to mind is Mrs. Pardue. She was my American History and Fine Arts History teacher in high school. She was tough both in her grading and with the class but we still had a good time.
SHREVEPORT - The University of Miami showed it still is a national championship caliber team as the Hurricanes stormed past Louisiana Tech 48-9 Thursday night at Independence Stadium.
A Tech home-record crowd of 43,279 joined a national television audience on ESPN for the season opener for both teams.
Miami totaled 467 net yards compared to Tech's 310, but the Bulldogs struggled in the red zone and managed only three field goals from Josh Scobee on the night. Scobee connected on field goals of 35 and 27 yards before closing out Tech's scoring with a career record 52-yarder.
The starting quarterbacks put up similar stats as Tech's Luke McCown hit on 16-for-26 passes for 195 yards with two interceptions while Miami's Brock Berlin, playing before a hometown crowd, connected on 14-of-28 attempts for 203 yards and one interception. But Berlin did manage to throw two touchdown passes while the Hurricanes added one score on the ground while also scoring on a punt return, a fumble recovery and an interception return.
"When all was said and done, (Miami's) defensive line was the key," McCown said. "They had so much speed. I think our receivers' speed matched their defensive backs but I thought their defensive line was going to be younger. They played very aggressive."
Miami defensive back Antrel Rolle had a big night with a 66-yard punt return for a score and a 78-yard fumble return for another touchdown.
The Hurricanes didn't waste any time as they opened scoring on a 24-yard scoring strike from Berlin to Ryan Moore before Rolle's scoring punt return put Miami up 14-0 only five minutes into the contest.
Scobee's 35-yard field goal with 1:03 left in the opening period put Tech on the scoreboard, but the Hurricanes stretched the halftime advantage to 21-3 on Leon Williams' 78-yard fumble return.
"When it got to 14-3 we could have gotten blown out in a hurry," Tech coach Jack Bicknell said. "I'm proud that the team settled down at that point and started playing better."
Miami moved out to a 24-3 lead on a Jon Peattie field goal from 23 yards out with 10:56 left in the third quarter before Scobee and Tech countered with his 27-yarder just over three minutes later.
The Hurricanes made their move to ice the game late in the third quarter as Berlin hit Kellen Winslow on a 6-yard scoring strike with 3:28 left in the period before Rolle's interception put Miami up 38-6 with 1:56 remaining in the quarter.
Jarrett Payton's 4-yard scoring scamper with 13:13 left in the game pushed the Hurricanes' lead to 45-6 before Scobee hit on his record 52-yarder to make it 45-9.
Peattie closed out scoring with a 32-yarder with 4:16 remaining as the Hurricanes moved to 3-0 in all-time games against the Bulldogs.
Ryan Moats led Tech rushers with 44 yards on three carries, including a long burst of 41 yards while Danny Wilson added 27 yards on three carries for the Bulldogs.
"You have to get your running game going against a team like that," Bicknell said. "After Moats got hurt we started getting tired and got away from our run game."
Frank Gore led Miami with 118 yards on 21 carries.
Freddie King topped Tech receivers with four catches for 27 yards while D.J. Curry added three receptions for 13 yards. Moore led Miami with four catches for 67 yards while Winslow added four catches for 35 yards.
I was helping a girl at work today and turned around to walk into my manager's office that was right behind me, tripped over a box and landed on my hands and knees without one of my shoes on. The lobby just stopped. How humiliating.
The Sunday before last a bunch of us from church spent most of the afternoon ripping up carpet and linoleum off the floor in the sanctuary and fellowship hall, respectively. Only to do what? Put down stone tile. This Sunday we had the pleasure of hearing the new acoustics, and WOW. I can't wait till we get the pews back in.
Today's Collect
LET thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of thy humble servants; and, that they may obtain their petitions, make them to ask such things as shall please thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
St. Bartholomew the Apostle
O ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who didst give to thine Apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and preach thy Word; Grant, we beseech thee, unto thy Church, to love that Word which he believed, and both to preach and receive the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Who is on the Lord’s side? Who will serve the King?
Who will be His helpers, other lives to bring?
Who will leave the world’s side? Who will face the foe?
Who is on the Lord’s side? Who for Him will go?
By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!
Not for weight of glory, nor for crown and palm,
Enter we the army, raise the warrior psalm;
But for love that claimeth lives for whom He died:
He whom Jesus nameth must be on His side.
By Thy love constraining, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!
Jesus, Thou hast bought us, not with gold or gem,
But with Thine own life blood, for Thy diadem;
With Thy blessing filling each who comes to Thee,
Thou hast made us willing, Thou hast made us free.
By Thy grand redemption, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!
Fierce may be the conflict, strong may be the foe,
But the King’s own army none can overthrow;
’Round His standard ranging, victory is secure,
For His truth unchanging makes the triumph sure.
Joyfully enlisting, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!
Words: Frances R. Havergal, 1877.
Music: “Armageddon,” C. Luise Reichardt; arranged by John Goss, 1871.
1. When was the last time you laughed? This afternoon.
2. Who was the last person you had an argument with?My mom.
3. Who was the last person you emailed? Mrs. Michael L. Stewart
4. When was the last time you bathed? I showered this morning
5. What was the last thing you ate? Uncle Ben's Chilli Bowl
She's A Flight Risk
Stolen from Shannon.
I started at the very beginning (a very good place to start). I got through most of March, skipping a little. The first sentences of the first post in April (on tax day I think) was this...
I guess I let you down, dear reader, going this long without writing. It is, of course, my responsibility to keep you entertained, to get you reading. To keep you reading.Now doesn't that seem to you like it's a blogel?
I think his Mimi (my mom) got his this shirt. It makes him look like he's 3 instead of 15 months.
My second nephew, Jakob, will be along in about 2-3 weeks.
[in the sing-song "nah-ny-nah-ny-boo-boo" voice]
I'm off tomorrow! I'm off tomorrow!
[/in the sing-song "nah-ny-nah-ny-boo-boo" voice]
GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as are right; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.
Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.
Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;
Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;
Thou my soul’s Shelter, Thou my high Tower:
Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.
Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.
High King of heaven, my victory won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.
1. How much time do you spend online each day? Zero to 3 hours...usually closer to 0.
2. What is your browser homepage set to? whenever i connect through netzero it takes me directly to their homepage, but if i had a choice it'd be my cartoons i read on yahoo or my blog.
3. Do you use any instant messaging programs? aim, msn
4. Where was your first webpage located? angelfire, where i learned basic html
5. How long have you had your current website? i've had a blog for a little over a yearh and have been at chattablogs a month today.
The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy.
Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the language is disgrasful and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "0" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud, of kors, be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German lik zey vunted in ze forst plas...
1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country? Actually I just returned today from a 2-day trip to Virginia to see my step-sister get married.
2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling? Let's all bow our heads and mourn the death of.....the hermit crab.
3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go? Europe (Spain, the British Isles, France, Germany, Italy, China/Japan, Australia, Hawaii, Alaska, the Brazilian coast where my aunt is from, et al.
4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car? Depends, sometimes a road trip is fun but not everybody wants to drive a long way.
5. What's the next place on your list to visit? Actually, I wasn't planning on going to Matt's wedding in December, but I think I might try.
This more just an FYI. I'm leaving town Friday morning to fly to Virginia to my step-sister's wedding. I'm very excited about flying in to D.C. because I've never seen it before. But oh what to do on the plane, she asks while printing out Theologia articles.
MT is having a hard time trying to "rebuild" my last post so I'll just write another!
When I drove home for lunch today, I saw a police car in the small parking lot of another bank (where Matt used to work) and wondered if something had happened (robbery, bomb threat, out of control customer, etc.). Later heard that they were robbed. Also, one of our branches over in Monroe had a bomb threat within the past week.
As a banker (especially one that runs a teller window at least twice a week), it's something always in the back of your mind and never brought to the forefront until something like this happens. Of course, I know that we have taken certian security measures and will be protected. And honestly, I'm not afraid of criminals. But still there's that something...that adrenal rush and psychological impacts that affect you. That's what I'm afraid of.
I saw this guy on NBC this morning and I almost wanted to vomit. Gay Bishop Wins in Episcopal Vote; Split Threatened
Fellow Chattablogger Christin, posted about being single. I'd just like to follow it up with an article emailed to me quite some time ago by her sister.
Had I any vague premonition of my present plight when I was six, I would have demanded that Stephen Herbison (incontestably the catch of the second grade) put his marriage proposal into writing and have it notarized.
I do want this piece to be practical, so to all you first-graders: CARPE DIEM.
Over the past several years I have perfected the artistry of escape regarding any singles functions—cookouts, conferences, Sunday school classes, and my personal favorite, putt-putt. My avoidance mechanism is triggered not so much by a lack of patience with such activities as it is by a lack of stomach for the pervasive attitudes. Thoreau insists that most men lead lives of quiet desperation; I insist that many singles lead lives of loud aggravation. Being immersed in singles can be like finding yourself in the midst of "The Whiners" of 1980's Saturday Night Live—it gives a whole new
meaning to "pity party."
Much has been written in Christian circles about singleness. The objective is usually either to chide the married population for their misunderstanding and segregationism or to empathize with the unmarried population as they bear the cross of “Plan B” for the Christian life, bolstered only by the consolation prizes of innumerable sermons on I Corinthians 7 and the fact that you can cut your toenails in bed. Yet singles, like all believers, need scriptural critique and instruction seasoned by sober grace, not condolences and putt-putt accompanied with pious platitudes.
John Calvin’s secret to sanctification is the interaction of the knowledge of God and knowledge of self. Singles, like all other sinners, typically dismiss the first element of the formula, and therein lies the root of all identity crises. It is not that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but that life has no tragedy like our God ignored. Every problem is a theological problem, and the habitual discontent of us singles is no exception. Can God be any less good to me on the average Tuesday morning than he was on that monumental Friday afternoon when he hung on a cross in my place? The answer is a resounding NO. God will not be less good to me tomorrow either, because God cannot be less good to me. His goodness is not the effect of his disposition but the essence of his person—not an attitude but an attribute.
I long to be married. My younger sister got married two months ago. She now has an adoring husband, beautiful home, a whirlpool bathtub, and all-new Corningware. Is God being any less good to me than he is to her? The answer is a resounding NO. God will not be less good to me because God cannot be less good tome. It is a cosmic impossibility for God to shortchange any of his children. God can no more live in me apart from the perfect fullness of his goodness and grace than I can live in Nashville and not be white. If he fluctuated one quark in his goodness, he would cease to be God. Warped theology is at the heart of attempts to” explain" singleness:
Have you ever wondered at what age one is officially single? Perhaps a sliding scale is in order: 38 for a Wall Street tycoon; 21 for a Mississippi sorority girl; 14 for a Zulu princess; and five years older than I am for me. It is a relevant question because at some point we see ourselves as “single,” and that point is a place of greater danger than despair.
Singleness can be a mere euphemism for self-absorption—now is the "you time." No wife to support? No husband to pamper? Well, then, by all means join three different golf courses, get a weekly pedicure, raise emus, subscribe to People. Singleness is never carte blanche for selfishness. A spouse is not a sufficient countermeasure for self.
The gospel is the only antidote for egocentricity. Christ did not come simply to save us from our sins; he came to save us from our selves. And he most often rescues us from us through relationships, all kinds of relationships. "Are you seeing anyone special?" a young matron in my home church asked patronizingly. "Sure," I smiled. "I see you and you’re special." OK, my sentiment was a little less than kind, but the message is true.
To be single is not to be alone. If someone asks if you are in a relationship right now, your immediate response should be that you are in dozens. Our range of relational options is not limited to getting married or to living in the sound-proof, isolated booth of Miss America pageants. Christian growth mandates relational richness. The only time folks talk about human covenants is in premarital counseling. How anemic. If our God is a covenantal God, then all of our relationships are covenantal. The gospel is not about how much I love God (I typically love him very little); it is about how much God loves me. My relationships are not about how much friends should love me; they are about how much I get to love them. No single should ever expect relational impoverishment by virtue of being single.
We should covenant to love people— to initiate, to serve, to commit. Many of my Vanderbilt girls have been reading Lady in Waiting, a popular book for Christian women struggling with singleness. That’s all fine and dandy, but what about a subtitle: And Meanwhile, Lady, Get Working. It is a cosmic impossibility for God to require less of me in my relationships than he does of the mother of four whose office is next door. Obedience knows no ages or stages.
Let’s face it: singleness is not an inherently inferior state of affairs. If it were, heaven would be inferior to this world for the majority of Christians (Mom is reconciled to being unmarried in glory as long as she can be Daddy’s roommate). But I want to be married. I pray to that end every day. I may meet someone and walk down the aisle in the next couple of years because God is so good to me. I may never have another date and die an old maid at 93 because God is so good to me. Not my will but his be done. Until then I am claiming as my theme verse, “If any man would come after me, let him. . . "
who are getting married today. May God bless you, and both of you continue to grow in your sanctification in your new life together. Love you guys!
LORD of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things; Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.