CRAZY TRAIN

So many treasures buried out there if ya know where to look...or if your friend gets married in a barn by a meth house!

MYSTERY

if you aint been here go...its pretty much everything i am up too lately.
Mystery Church




steev

Sad Truth

"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate." Hooptyrides

Rockin' Poopin' Hippo

the family and i were at the zoo. a sweet hippo decided we should get lost and tried to dismiss us by turning himself into a whilring poop shooter. he rolled over and over in his pool squirting the stuff everywhere. he failed to notice that he was dealing with two guys (my son and I) this behavior only caused to us stay and watch. laughing out loud, pointing and as evidenced here snapping pictures. so instead of making us leave he jsut filled his home with poop. and it did not even phase us...well it did but not the way he intended.



my son called this photo "rockin pooini hippo"

hippos rule.

But This is Me Too

I have mulitple sides. I am like a diamond or maybe just a card board box. But i have sides and this is one of them.
YeeeeHaaaaaaa!

This is Apparently me...

my friend matt's blog sent me to this quiz site. Apparently this is me theologically.

You scored as Reformed Evangelical. You are a Reformed Evangelical. You take the Bible very seriously because it is God's Word. You most likely hold to TULIP and are sceptical about the possibilities of universal atonement or resistible grace. The most important thing the Church can do is make sure people hear how they can go to heaven when they die. Reformed Evangelical 68% Neo orthodox 57% Fundamentalist 57% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 54% Emergent/Postmodern 54% Roman Catholic 29% Charismatic/Pentecostal 29% Classical Liberal 21% Modern Liberal 4% What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com

Pics

Here a couple pics of the New Bridge Building. Right now thats most of what i do. Try to get it all finished up and looking good.

brad

i am sitting here watching hockey with my friend brad. we are also nerding it up on the computers as we watch the best team sport ever HOCKEY. you can try and deny it but its true. sorry. so brad says i need to update my blog so here it is. i will think of sommething wise later, but for now its just making my friend happy and me a little less guilty.
GO STARS!

darth steevious

South Bound Cemetary

I came to a place of death early as the sun rose into the stinging cold. Warmth dawned in my heart. Around me they slept my soul awakening. Under my feet they slumbered my eyes resurected in wonder. Beauty strolled among the tombs its young spread out in her wake. Light broke though bare outstretched limbs and blinded me to the sight of soaring freedom. Life fed from deaths covering. The journey is long and hard. The world it groes cold and growns the pains of mornig awaiting warmth and renewal from the sun still coming. My heart is lifted high in praise and swells in awe and adoration. -Amen

Wood

I was watching a show about henry ford, the car guy, this weekend with my son. over one of the many fireplaces in his masive home he carved this: "if a man cuts his own wood he'll warm himself twice". i liked that.


"Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding." - Proverbs 4:7

Links

Just put some more links in my favs file over to the side.
-steev

vanity

i dont like many pictures of myself. not sure why. false humility? Vanity? Poor sefl-esteem? i dont dont either way i do like this picture that was taken by a friend named neil. it appeals to me, not in a vain sense but i like it artisticlly and there is somthing about it that says a lot about who i am.

man oh man

sheesh its been what like a year since i posted? man this is hard stuff. seems all my spare time has been spent trying to find spare time :)
i am working on a very detailed halloween costume at the moment and its kinda fun. all my kids are getting into it as well. it will be a family affair for sure. i will post pics.

well thats it. so much for anything meaningful or life changing here.

Silence

YES

"Tell me of a time in your life that God as spoken to you and What does it look like when He does?" that was a question someone asked me this week.
If we follow Jesus it would stand to reason he might speak to us...right? We pray and expect him to speak. Searching desperately for answers (a.k.a the quick fixes) to our queries we look, wait, wonder speculate...we do lots of things to get him to give definate answers, lead us, and devinely respond. Usually though, don't we really just want him to justify/condone our actions, desires...sin?
It dawned on me over the last few years that silence can be an answer. Seeing as God always responds with "Yes, No and Wait".
Nothing usually means "wait". For me it almost always means "hold on-patience".
Ever ask God for something then just assume a positive answer and move on? Did he really affirm my request? Did that thing you then decided to do ever just stop, fall apart, cause you heartache, pain...trouble? I find those to be "NO"s mistaken for "Yes"s
But what about "Yes". Not maybe, sorta, kinda, wait, or later but "YES!" What does that look like? What does confirmation to prayer look like?

Often its Suffering...Sacrifice...Pain...

I understand why we assume so much with God. I know why we move on without clear direction so often, why we press forward without waiting. Cause to get a "YES" from God is Hard. You see yes always involves HIS glory and thats in direct conflict with our own will more often than not.

"Yes" means his way not mine. "Yes" means "I am allowing you or asking you to do something that might benefit you , but always glorifies Me." (God speaking)

We don't often think before we pray. At least in the past I have had a bad habit of not thinking too much. If i knew what was really required of me in the outcome of these prayers, if i knew i would have to wait impatiently, if i knew i would have to sacrifice and suffer...i might rethink my requests.

Following Jesus aint easy. Hearing his voice and responding is a call to live life as it was intended and then die. To die right were you stand everyday, all your life. To ask, wait and suffer. It's not glamorous, but it's glorious.

I think the most comforting thing about it is that He knows. He relates. Our God is a god who knows. Knows what is required in the "Yes". He knew what making man would loose-sin. He knew what redeeming man would cost-the death of his son. He knows what you will endure in following him-he did it too. And that is good. That is God. It's also good to know he only gives us what we can handle. No more. No less.

I heard from God last week and it hurt. I had been crying out. I had been asking for answers. I had waited and waited and he spoke. And it hurt...deeply And it is good. It will require much but he is God.

Can you hear him? Are you waiting? Are you willing? Do you really want to know...YES!

Nerds

Bit old (MAY) but this is me and the Kids Opening Day of Star Wars Ep III. I was at the opening weekend of the first Star Wars when i was 7 years old. It was really cool to be with my twins for the last SW movie-and they are now 7 years old! My daughter demanded we be at the front of the line and made us get there really early. Pretty cool. Pretty geeky. I love my nerds!

The Gloomy Dean

Found This doig some research. I thought it was funny.

Compassion

As i watched the news this morning I found myself shaking my head at all the people from New Orleans and the surrounding areas hit by Katrina standing on their roofs as the rushing waters reached the tops of their homes. "Why did you not leave?" "What is wrong with you?" "Are you stupid?" all these comments came to my mouth in questioning disbelief. You would think that after days of warning and encouragement about the seriousness of the coming storm people would have been "smarter" and left their homes and saught shelter and safety. I was dumbfounded.

Compassion.

Where is your compassion Stephen? Why are you not weeping over that man's lost wife? Why are you not on your knees for those who have lost everything. How would you comfort them? Would you? Or are they just "dumb"?

Sometimes the Spirit troubles me at the wrong time, but making it the right time to hear.

Be Still. Listen. Learn.

Materialism

Found this article interesting. While i try to avoid the whole "left-right" banter it does share some insight and give thought especially on the whole concept of materialism in our country. Are we as Paul said content in all things? And if so were and why? Is social justice just that? Is financial inequality the real unequal in our lives? Faith, or Trust, we all have it and when we realize that its critical to ask ourselves where and in what do i place my trust. Idealism or Idols, Satisfaction or a Saviour?