Today is my anniversary!

August 5, 2011 in Family, Life with 5 Comments

I remember being in the car with my dad in the morning of August 5, 2000, just a couple of hours before I would stand in front of the woman that I love and commit to being her husband. It started raining. I freaked out. The wedding went just fine, but little did I know that this would be the first, and smallest, of many storms we would go through together, holding tightly to God, and to each other.

Over the past 11 years, I have grown to love Jill more and more. I have seen her grow into a wonderful and beautiful woman. She is incredibly talented, extremely generous, deeply loving, and so patient.
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A New Photography Challenge

June 21, 2011 in Creativity, Photography with 4 Comments

I come from a family of photographers. My brother is photographer. My dad was a photographer. I have an uncle (actually a 2nd or 3rd cousin) who was a photographer for the Associated Press for a long time.

Last year I got myself a new DSLR camera. I really like it. I can take awesome looking photos, and it shoots HD video as well. But this is not a review on my Canon T2i, this post is about a new challenge I am on. It’s simple. In an attempt to grow in my photography skills, I am taking photos each day for the next year and then posting the one I like best online for all to see. I won’t blog every one of the photos, but you can follow along by going to my Flickr site. I would love you input on the pictures.

Here’s the first one.

Day 1 of 366

I went down to the river in town with my new Sigma 3omm lens, and my new Lightcraft Workshop Fader ND trying to learn how to use the ND and a slow shutter speed to get the water to look “fluffy”. I found this tree that looked like it was ripped out of the ground roots and all. What do you think?

G.O.S.P.E.L.

March 28, 2011 in The Gospel, Theology, Video with 2 Comments

I saw this awesome video this morning! Not only is it an awesome piece of art (in my opinion), but it is a great explanation of the Gospel. Take 4 minutes (edit: actually it’s 5 minutes) and watch it!

What do you think? Does this explain the Gospel well?

Birthday Cards

March 24, 2011 in Productivity, Youth Ministry with 0 Comments

Something I do as a youth pastor is send postcards to students. I try to send at least five personal, handwritten postcards to students each week. It doesn’t always happen, but it happens more often than not. I just want them to know that I care about them. I started doing this way back at the suggestion of my friend Bobby Moss, and it is something I love to do. If you are, or have been in my youth group, chances are you have received a postcard from me, and if you haven’t, someone is hiding them from you.

I also keep track of when each student’s birthdays is, and I send them a birthday card. They are simply a design I create and print on regular 4×6 photo paper and mail as a postcard. Each year I come up with a new design for the birthday card. So, instead of hoarding these graphics, I thought I would make them available to anyone that might want to use them. There are 6 different designs. I hope you can get some use from them. ZIP FILE

Baptizing Family

March 23, 2011 in Family with 2 Comments

This past Sunday, I had the privilege of baptizing my sister and brother-in-law at their church. I’m not sure I ever thought it would happen, but God has done amazing things in their lives, and it was cool to be a part of it. I was also awesome to have their kids up front watching their mom and dad take this public step of obedience.

It was a very emotional time for my family.

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