The Perfect Church

The Perfect Church
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brothers on a hotel bed

We are making our music video to this but I just love this one too!

being good where you are

view this

they say he's just a friend...oh biz

creepy

art life's little reminder

I stole this from flowerdust.net....

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” - Quote by Stella Adler


ps buy anne jackson's book

Watch the Inaugaration live from Hulu

the inauguration view it on hulu.com

bless

“if in life we were sincerely more concerned to bless more instead of impress more, Jesus would enjoy it.”
as seen on http://www.flowerdust.net/

the renewed mind

Say what you will-but these days the "church" is getting jiggy with it.. sense the sarcasm


The Renewed Mind is the Key from Lehrthing on Vimeo.

lest we forget

I saw this on Ragamuffin Soul.com--It is becoming one of my favorite blogs.

There is a gaping hole in the middle of all of our Sunday services.

We try to fill it with cool videos.
We try and fill it with social justice.
We try and fill it with tree hugging Christianity.
We try and fill it with God is love.
We try and fill it with unreal production.
We try and fill it with life application.
We try and fill it with smiles and winks.
We try and fill it with hands raised and hearts seated.
We try and fill it with Martin guitars and Orange amps.
We try and fill it with “Go after the heart of God”’s and “Lift up your voice”’s
We try and fill it with singing loudly and harmonizing beautifully.
We try and fill it with internet campuses and Sunday tweets.

But at the end of the day, the hole is still there.
At the end of the day, the hole is still gaping.
Because although all that stuff is good,
None of it is the Gospel.

We must never forget that the only thing capable of filling it…
Is Jesus Christ.

Lest we forget.

What would Jesus Buy???

second life death

now we have hit an all new low..

An unnamed Japanese woman reacted in anger after her virtual husband divorced her in the interactive game “Maple Story”. She reacted by killing him -not the player, but his online avatar! The player whose online persona was murdered complained to police, who arrested the woman on suspicion of hacking. She used information she got from the other player in order to destroy his avatar. If convicted, she could face up to five years in prison. -link

arcade fire....album :neon bible

cheesburger jerry

‘Big C’ makes for more patient Plaza panhandler'

Kansas City’s most prolific panhandler is coming to terms with his own mortality …

Jerry Mazer — a Plaza pariah to some, an institution to others — has cancer.

“The doctor says I’ve got two years to 20 to live, so I figure I’ve got 10 years,” Mazer says. “That’s a helluva estimate, isn’t it?”

Mazer procured a note from his doc to evidence his condition.

“To whom it may concern,” the note begins on what appears to be a Truman Medical Center prescription form that lists his name, payment terms and date of birth (06-09-50). “Gerald Mazer, patient under my care, cannot work. He was recently diagnosed with leukemia.”

Still Mazer must make a living, so he maintains his vigil.

“I’m doing fine,” he says. “It’s almost been a year since I was diagnosed, but I’m doing fine. I’m trying to stay out of trouble — the cops pretty much have been leaving me alone ....”

The end game for Mazer?

“For me? D-E-A-T-H. That’s between seven and 10 years now if I’m lucky. You never know because it’s up to God.”

Has his philosophy on life changed?

“I’m trying to be nicer and crack jokes,” Mazer says. “I don’t even think about the death sentence. But it’s changed my philosophy about how I want to be right with God and right with people, where I’m not a bad guy, so maybe I can go to heaven.

“Like yesterday I asked somebody for a down payment on a cheeseburger, and I got no results. So then I asked somebody for a down payment on a hippie-burger, and he called the cops and said I called him a hippie mother-(something). It didn’t sit too well with the cops, but they let me get out of here.”

Mazer’s lawyer extricated him in May from a jam, “for cussing out a Plaza security guard,” Mazer says. “But that was from October of last year, and I haven’t been arrested since.”

It’s like this: Some people resent being asked for money and will say some nasty stuff. In Mazer’s “Screaming Jerry” days in Westport back in the 1980s and early ’90s, he more than returned verbal fire.

Recently he’s been more restrained but still feisty. But the “Big C” has further calmed the once-petulant panhandler.

“It’s better to be humble than to go to jail, because if somebody calls the cops, no matter what happened, I’m the one who gets in trouble,” Mazer says. “Make sure you put my diagnosis in the paper, that way maybe people won’t be so mean to me.”

Done deal.

kansas city star - hearne christopher jr.

wally world

Wal-Mart Denies Pressuring Workers to Vote Against Democrats

By Michelle Sherwood

Story Created: Aug 3, 2008

Story Updated: Aug 3, 2008

Wal-Mart is denying a report that it pressured employees to vote against democrats in November because of worries—that a bill the party supports—would make it easier for workers to unionize. The measure would allow labor organizations to unionize workplaces without secret ballot elections—Obama co-sponsored it; Mccain opposed it.

A Wall Street Journal report says the Bentonville-based company held mandatory meetings with store managers to warn them about the bill. A Wal-Mart spokesman said the company did discuss the bill with employees and sees it as a negative but was not advocating that workers vote against backers of the bill.

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rootless

We have become rootless; we are living in ways that are counter to thousands of years of human experience. While it is good to no longer be subject to local famines and natural disasters, we’ve lost some important aspects of being human in the world. ––Katherine Kelly in Rootlessness and Rootedness.

mount jesus

top ten rules of living

Bob"s Top Ten Rules of Living

• 1. Get Involved
• 2. Be Kind
• 3. Never Give Up
• 4. Rejoice in the Success of Others
• 5. Take Chances
• 6. Be Humble
• 7. Embrace Chaos
• 8. Take Time
• 9. Trust in Your Intuition-Guts-Bones
• 10. Don't Move to the Suburbs

scrubs moving to ABC

Straight from Zach Braff... Scrubs is not over but moving the last season to ABC
Dear friends,

Many of you have been understandably confused by the Fairy Tale episode of Scrubs serving as the series finale. It was not. I was not allowed to say it until today, but Scrubs will be moving to ABC for its final season. We are currently filming the 8th and final season. The true finale of the show will air on ABC in the fall. NBC merely promoted the Fairy Tale episode as the finale, as it was the last episode they owned.



Also, several of you were very confused by the fact that Dr. Kelso and Laverne were still working at the hospital in the Fairy Tale episode. Because of the writer's strike, the last remaining episodes for NBC were aired out of order. This is why Dr. Kelso was still chief of medicine. That was not Laverne however, for those of you who have been following closely; it was a new nurse "Shirley" who no one thinks looks anything like Laverne except for JD.



Hope this clears some things up.



peace and love,
zb