For All Bird Lovers

This is reportedly from the Detroit ABC affiliate. I don't really know as I rarely watch local news.

Truth is that I think this is a hoax. There is no Canadian Brown Finch. There is a Brown-capped Rosy Finch that lives in the high peaks of Colorado. And where is the green grass and leafy trees in the Detroit area right now?

What do you think? Hoax or real?

12Stone Church

12Stone Church is doing some creative things with video in worship. Check this one out:



I pray for the day ....

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Computer Repaired

My computer is back from repairs! I feel like I have both hands again. Isn't it amazing how much we've grown to depend on technology? I felt like I couldn't do anything without my computer. Of course, my feelings aren't true. I can do almost all of my work without a computer. It just takes longer.

Key learning .... it's time to start saving for a new computer at home. Ours is so old I can't run many of my applications with it. We've had it about 9 years. In computer age that's geriatric.

Fun stuff is happening at DPC. We have two new small groups starting up - one for men another for women. About a half dozen people will be baptized February 3rd. Awesome!

I plan to get my other blog going again today. For some reason I couldn't post to it from the old office laptop. I never figured out why.

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Enough rambling .... I've work to do!

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Computers!

My office computer died yesterday. Ugh!! It has to go to the factory for repairs. I have spent much of today getting an old computer going.

It hasn't gone well. :-(

Blogs, email response, etc. from me may be very slow for a few weeks.

Walking Man

Yesterday's mail brought a new book I ordered. Walking Man is the autobiography of Narciso Zamora. Narciso is one of our Church of God leaders in South America. He has started many churches in Chile and Peru.

There is a line in the prologue that really captured me: "You can't expect a crown if you don't enter the race."

I've been "racing" now for a little over 40 years. (I became a Christian somewhere around 10 years old.) But, I still feel like there is so much more. I realize most of my course is behind me, but there are pit stops that I still see ahead. There is so much to do yet for Jesus!

I hope you are in the race. Don't get lost on a detour or stuck in the pit for repairs. Get out there and race!

Acts 20:24 (NIV)
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

1 Corinthians 9:24 through 1 Corinthians 9:27 (NIV)
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

2 Timothy 4:7 through 2 Timothy 4:8 (NIV)
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

Hebrews 12:1 through Hebrews 12:3 (NIV)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.