First Chapter

Welcome to the 1st chapter discussion. Please post any comment on the relevant chapter and question. Go ahead and blog as anonymous or if you like use your name. I want to generate questions that will create us men as MEN. Meetings are 6-26, 7-31, 8-28, 9-25

1)Did anything strike or move you from what was said?

2)What did you want to be when you grew up, what happend that made you stop?

3)Did you have a goal or dream that has been lost because it was not "nice" or what a "Good Christian" has as a dream?

4)Do you agree women want to come on the adventure?

5)How has Church played a roll in creating men... good or bad?

6)What would you do if you had a bottomless bank account?

been a while

I have a wedding shoot coming up and am very excited. Congrats to Abe and Ali will be in order this coming Sunday and it will be very fun.

On another note, Jen has come down with allergies and they have been mean to her this year. We were up North this weekend and Jen forgot her inhaler, so we went to the local drug store and got this asthma tablets that you swallow. To both of our surprise, it worked. it was weird.

that is all that I have for this limited time today, catch ya later.

old sayings for troubled times

Family issues are happening, we need prayer.

Sin will lead a person like a cow to the slaughter house.

You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.

sorry so cryptic, pray for us.

la. tee. da.

So here I am... sitting... at my desk with my duties accomplished for the day,... and tomorrow, already got my co-worker caught up and he's bored, and all that I can think about is how I have to drive 45-60 minutes home tonight and I have an hour left for the day. what joy.
My Hebrews study is going pretty well, I have read 1/2 of the book straight through and am looking forward to doing more this weekend, 3 hours of study is tough if you don't buckle down and do it.
I should go, my conscience is getting the better of me now. see ya.

personal challenge

As I was leading a discussion with 3 other guys about getting more meat out of devotional time I was challenged by the words I was saying to encourage them. I used to study the Bible with intention rather than routine daily duty. Now I read for about 10 min and then pray for 5-10. It makes a nice devotional time. A nice glass of milk in the morning and then run all day on that feeding. I need that glass of milk (15 min of easy devo time), but I need to follow that up some meat later in that day. So in the next 30 days I will be doing a deeper study into the book of Hebrews. I might not do it every day of in depth, but I will put 3 hrs towards study beyond my milk time per week. Here is my plan...
1) Read Hebrews all the way through 1 time, no notes, no assumptions, not trying to get any hidden meaning out of it.
2) Read back ground notes from Bible dictionaries and write down important notes like, where, when, why, how, culture relevance, to whom.
3) Read Hebrews a couple of times only jotting down breaks in ideas and where the topic changes. This will help create an outline.
4) Go per section of the brief outline and create a more detailed outline as sub points.
5) Dig into Hebrews with the notes that have already been taken and extra commentaries. At this time Hebrews will be divided into manageable portions of meat.

I will post my progress to keep myself accountable. Goodluck to myself.