the media hates obama?

check this out...

pretty much my thoughts on obama and mccain

couldn't have said it better myself...

11 years ago

i haven't blogged for a while and i'm ok with that.
today, however, is a very special day. you see, i have been married for 11 years. sarah and i got married just after our first year of college and haven't looked back since. and yes, that means that we were high school sweethearts. i was so madly in love with her in high school that i couldn't eat a normal meal for at least a year. i'm not joking. i would lose my appetite because i was so excited about seeing her again.
she has been my best friend ever since and the worst part about traveling is not getting to hang out with her as much as i want. i am a man made for one woman and God gave her to me at a young age. i may not be a smart man but i know when i am handed a great thing. So you can see how nothing that comes to me in life from here on out can quite compare to what God gave me 11 years ago (kids come dangerously close). i am a blessed man who married up...

sarah, even though i have all of my appetite back and then some, i am still madly in love with you and can't wait for the next 50 years together. happy anniversary!

Sting's Watch Coverage Periods

more song chart memes

car goes 300 miles a gallon

check out this car. the Aptera is a 1 cylinder/electric, two passenger, 3 wheeler car that goes 300 miles/gallon. $30000 is getting closer to something reasonable.

good movie?

a friend sent me a link to this movie. looks like it could be good. let me know if you see it.

new weekend week end review

check out the new weekend week end review in the upper left corner. there is a cool announcement from our corner of the universe!

how hungry are you?

"i'm as hungry as a gopher looking for food on a sunday"

-my 6 year old son-

worship review

steven roach is another worship leader that is doing some really powerful stuff. he is more in the "world music", percussion based category than anyone else i know of. be sure to watch the whole clip. they kind of go off in the end. very cool stuff.

Steven Roach

i am...

i am a christian. i am in love with Jesus, the only son of God. we have an intimate relationship where i talk to him every day and he talks back. i depend on him to lead me through this life and all that it entails (as a husband, father, friend, worker, and in finance, decisions, opportunities, music, etc.) i am a real person and if you are reading this you probably know me and this is the real deal. Jesus is who i truly love and depend on. this is not just rhetoric. i believe that Jesus provides to all humans the only way to heaven. i believe that the church will live through most of the tribulation (seven years of extreme turmoil) after which time Jesus will rule the earth, on the earth, from Israel. i believe that this is the last or next to last generation on earth before this occurs. i believe that prayer and fasting are incredibly important to the growth of a follower of Christ. i need to do more of that.
i pray for all of the people around me that they would come to know Jesus as a friend who absolutely rocks their world. that they would know the king not some religiosity that is filled with empty rules and leaves them feeling less than. don't you know that he wants the best for you. he is real and wants you? this is not a game and he is not a santa claus. he is a real, living man who is God and one day it will be all too clear. all wisdom of man will seem like a house of cards leaving so many wondering what made so much sense before when they explained away the existence of God. laughing at truth doesn't make truth disappear. i believe that the first step to having a relationship with Jesus is admitting that Jesus is Lord over everything (including your life) and believing that in your heart. then dive into the bible. it is full of the stuff that life is made of. let it come into your mind every day and then it starts to flow into your heart. talk to God about it. ask him questions and talk to him. he will answer. this is what prayer is, conversation with God.
God is the only one who fills me. he is my anchor in life. i have no direction without him, but in him i have incredible freedom. all good things in my life flow directly from his hand.
i am in love with my wife. she's my best friend.
i am in love with my boys. they're super cool.

i am blessed...

worship review

i thought that some of you might enjoy hearing some worship that you might not otherwise. so here's three worship leaders that are heavy hitters (in my book) right now. Luke Wood, Kim Walker with Jesus Culture, and Misty Edwards. check 'em out:

Luke Wood


Kim Walker with Jesus Culture doing a killer JohnMark McMillan (another heavy) song


Misty Edwards, in my opinion, one of the most powerful worship leaders today


enjoy!

bells and squares

went to see the liberty bell and independence hall today. i took a leisurely stroll down market street from the hotel. the last time i was here i was maybe four. it was in the middle of a hot summer and i'm sure we had squeezed about as much patriotism into one day as any young family can. i was able to touch the bell then. now they won't let you. in fact, i had to open my jacket to let military-ish dudes make sure i wasn't packin' any heat. i'm sure that didn't happen when i was four. come to think of it, back then i got so sick from the heat that i puked on the subway tracks in the station. i remember being worried that when the train came, it would slip off the tracks on my vomit. whew, was i relieved when i realized that the engineers who built the train had thought that one through and the train sailed safely to a halt at the station.
i didn't puke today. it was a good day. one thing that would have made today awesome is two little boys by my side and one sexy lady. oh well. south carolina is being blessed with them for now. i can wait, but don't want to be doing this for long...

zahav means gold

i am working in philadelphia this week. i am really tired from this last run of shows. over the last 5 weeks we have done shows in houston, texas; rogers, arkansas; kansas city, missouri; little rock, arkansas and now philly. each show lasts about 5-7 days. you do the math and you will see that that leaves about .0001% of my time with my family...not the way i like to roll if you know what i'm saying.

but i realized a while ago (and sarah helped me to remember just the other day) that i have an old friend here in philly. he is the kind of friend that you didn't spend a great amount of time with growing up but the time you did spend together was very memorable. i would consider him one of my great friends. he and his little bro used to come to florida in the summertime and stay with his aunt who just happened to be our neighbors. there was a lot of skateboarding, pools, ice cream, movies and pretty much whatever else boys do in the summer...great times!

i hadn't talked to him much for the last several years so i wasn't so sure he would want to hang out. but i called him up and he said, "i'll clear my schedule, we're going out". we grabbed a bite to eat and he showed me around a few of the restaurants he is involved in as a chef or owner.
he is a chef here in philadelphia who has worked at places like here and here and was even voted one of the city's hottest new chefs. (you can check out his ultra sexy photo here). he is a part owner of this restaurant and a brand new project, Zahav, a trendy restaurant with Israeli cuisine. It's still being built and the cities biggest paper, the philadelphia inquirer is doing a week to week blog on the building of the restaurant that you can see here.

i have to say, "good on ya, mike!". but to tell you the truth, i was just glad to see an old friend and really would think no differently of you if you had just a plain old job. just from one overworked dude to another, remember to take a day off every once in a while...

savin' money

when you travel, eating out can get expensive. so i have a foolproof plan to save money.

pb & j.

the only drawback is when you try to fly with a loaf of bread...

jesus 101

to explain:
i read some pastors got together and put this video together. it was to show some common misconceptions of Jesus. very funny.

i love you

the other day i was telling elijah about a funny scene in a cheesy movie sarah and i saw the other day. the guy goes to pick up his fiance's ring for their wedding and the personal engraving in the ring was misspelled to read something like "i love you with all of my fart". well eli thought that was the funniest thing in the world.
the next day when eli woke up he comes up to me and says, out of the blue, "dad, i love you with all of my fart" and we both giggled at each other.
the funny thing is that i think he meant it...

elfed

please take the time to visit this site

...thank you for your support and merry christmas

oh happy day

why is it that whenever there is a church in a big hollywood movie the choir is always singing "oh happy day"...

holiday greetings

weird town

so i'm working downtown kansas city today. my friend mark and i were carpooling so we were talking all the way through the commute. we pull off the highway into the heart of the city with all the big buildings and stuff. all of the sudden we see three elephants on the sidewalk by an arena being hosed down by some guy.

early morning. big city. wet elephants.

nice.