Ya Mon!

-Jamaican Sunset-

7:45pm - 15 minutes after the sun had set......there were other people that were there 15 minutes before hand and were starting to leave right after the sun had set. I was able to stop a couple of them and tell them to wait just a couple more minutes if they wanted to see the colors explode. And sure enough it did! One Asian man grabbed my arm and made show him how to use his camera. Then my beautiful wife and I left for a delicious honeymoon dinner.

Natural Color

The most beautiful natural colors are in the morning just before sunrise. Clouds are a good thing because they produce some extremely vivid colors when the sunlight hits them at this angle. This was taken before I left for work in the morning. I had my camera on me and as Carrie and I walked outside to go to work I said, "Honey, I think I am going to be a little late for work today"... It's too bad that most people are asleep during the most colorful part of the day. There is no artificial color in the picture. The only thing I did was slightly bump up the contrast afterwards to make it look like it should have, because I didn't have my camera set on the right setting at the time. Which I found out later :(. This was taken with a Nikon D200, 80mm, 1/40 sec, F/5.6, at -2/3 Step.

Slip & Slide

Chillin'

Yosemite

The good ole days.........

Papa John

Papa John....welcome

to the Blog

Family

p.s. don't hate me for

putting this picture up

old school

Unkown God

All of the Bible is truth, but the Bible is not all truth.

It is not exhaustive truth.

For example 2+2=4. That is true.

That is not in the Bible. It is however still true.

We can also apply this to other religions. Although they are not the Total truth they may still have truth laced in their theology even though they fall short of ultimate truth. We need to find these snippets of truth, accept it as truth and use it. I think this is a powerful way to share the gospel. To relate to someone that you thought you didn't have anything in common with.

Take Paul's example in Acts 17. He is at a place in Athens in the midst of great philosophers. He says, "for as I was passing through considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:" HE Claims that this 'unknown god' is actually Jesus. He knows nothing of what they believe of this God but still make the claim. Now that is bold. That is studying, finding the little truth that a person has about the True God, and using that to relate the gospel to them. Strategery. Simply amazing. He also later quotes their own poets, "For we are also His offspring." Saying that if we are His offspring then the Divine Nature is not something made with human hands, shaped by art and man's devising.

I used to think that Christianity is Totally True and that all other religions are Totally False, ever single part of them. I don't believe that anymore. Christianity is Totally True, but that doesn't mean that there isn't some truth found in other religions as little as it may be.

Any thoughts?

America's Most Wanted

Name: John "Funk" John

Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 185
Age: 26

Wanted for: Making ridiculous claims like he invented the question mark.

Last Seen: December 27, 2006 - Bathing himself in a dried up public bird bath, with no soap, a handful of lemonheads, while singing his self declared theme song of “Baby Beluga”

Charlie Hall

p.s. Go VCU

Its that Time of year Again

I know that this is not the greatest picture I have ever taken....but Today is the big day. There is just a different feeling in the air during March.
Yes, the weather is changing and we have thunderstorms instead of freezing rain, but that's not what I am talking about.

March Madness. Period.

It reminds me of when I used to fly through the air and dunk all over people......until I hit my back on the rim and haven't been able to do it since.

It reminds me of Isaiah Hamilton, when he dunked in 7th grade. And when I used to throw him Alley-oops in 8th grade.....

its that time of year again.......ahh yes....enjoy everyone

Found...

This is a picutre that I took this past fall, and just found it, sweet!

Colored Markers

This lady is pretty good at using colored markers...

Although I disagree, I didn't get to talk to her and allow her to defend her ridiculous ideas.....

This is my life

This is a picture of my desk.

This is what I look at every day.

This is my life.

Today I was thinking about work. Because well, that's where I am right now. But why do we work? And what is work? What is our motivation to work?

Is it just to fill up at least 8 hours of our day?

Is it to enjoy a 20 minute commute, slithering your way through traffic on one of the busiest roads in America listening to Elliot in the morning?

Is is to make you fee like you actually acomplished something during the day?

It's sad. Today I realized that my motivation to come to work is money.... cash flow, dollar dollar bills y'all, the bling, green paper, currency, wealth, capitol, funds, riches, legal tender, coinage, whatever you want to call it. I always hoped that wouldn't be the case, that coinage would never be my motivation, but it is. It made me realized that I spend more time at work with my office-mate than at home with my wife.

Or look at it this way. Even if you spent an hour with God a day (which is alot more than reality), you would be at work for 8 times that. 8 times more thinking about "work" than thinking, meditating, and focusing on true reality. That's a sobering thought. That is why our occupation needs to be, has to be, something we love and enjoy. So.....

Do I love my job? Do YOU love your job? What do I love and how can I make a profession out of that?

What am I doing with my life? How am I making an impact for Christ? Has anything I have done this past week even make some kind of impact on eternity?

That is why it is important to look at the past and remember. To mediate on what God HAS DONE. He was the one who brought me back up to DC. HE was the one who got me this job. I was the one He used to share Jesus with a couple of my co-workers. He has me here for a reason. We are called to be a witness wherever we are and so thats what I am going to do. This may not be the place I want to spend the rest of my life, but its the place God has me right now. I may be the only follower of Jesus here.... right now. God might really need me here. So I will pursue to change my motivation and to continue to preach the Gospel to myself daily, and look for ways to make His name known.

This is a picture of my desk.
This is what I look at every day.
This is my life.

Thank God its Friday.

Bottles

Cause when it rains, it pours

Cause when it rains, it pours

and this heart, it was yours

deception at first

give it time it would burst

to a Fury unknown

as a child it was sown

an attack from below

on and on...it would go

theres a point you have seen

been assulted, used, and abused

and left so confused.

Till that light did appear

'Ohh my child do not fear,

I have rescued your soul,

it is under control

No more pain, no more tears

recalling those years

no more death, no more strife

I have ransomed your life'

But what did I bring?

you put my hand in your ring

theres only one thing i've seen

to your cross I will cling.

Is that Legal?

I took this while driving home from Roanoke yesterday evening when my wife was asleep. She woke up and found me... not good.

Does anyone know if its 'illegal' to take pictures while you are driving?

"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." -Romans 8:1

The Fall of Man

Reach Higher

There is supposed to be a lunar exlipse tonight. Anyone see it?

Ah Shucks.

I picked this picture for two reasons. The first is because our car was making some really weird noises on the way down to JMU last night.....and the second is because this is kind of how my nose and throat feel.

My Beautiful Wife

I get lost in her eyes..........