Ok, so I found out about this site on Jared’s blog. It’s great! You can learn all about yourself. Here’s my profile:

American Cities That Best Fit You:
70% Honolulu
60% Los Angeles
60% Miami
55% San Diego
55% San Francisco

Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General American English
20% Dixie
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Yankee

Your Japanese Name Is…
Yogi Ito

Your Irish Name Is…
Owen Browne

Your Inner European is French! (I am repulsed!)
Smart and sophisticated.You have the best of everything - at least, *you* think so.

You Are 35% Normal(Occasionally Normal)
You sure do march to your own beat…But you’re so weird, people wonder if it’s a beat at allYou think on a totally different wavelengthAnd it’s often a chore to get people to understand you

You Will Die at Age 76
76 You’re pretty average when it comes to how you live…And how you’ll die as well.

Your Brain is 60.00% Female, 40.00% Male (DO WHAT???)
Your brain is a healthy mix of male and femaleYou are both sensitive and savvyRational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headedBut you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve

Your Taste in Music:
80’s Rock: High Influence
90’s Alternative: High Influence
90’s Rock: High Influence
Adult Alternative: High Influence
90’s Hip Hop: Medium Influence
90’s Pop: Medium Influence
90’s R&B: Medium Influence
Classic Rock: Medium Influence
Country: Medium Influence
Hair Bands: Medium Influence
80’s Alternative: Low Influence
80’s Pop: Low Influence
Alternative Rock: Low Influence
Ska: Low Influence

You Are 31 Years Old
31 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what’s to come… love, work, and new experiences.30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You’ve had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!40+: You are a mature adult. You’ve been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

I guess that’s enough for me.

I’ve been a pretty proud sibling for a long time. My brother and my sister have both excelled as adults in what they’ve done. I’m the dummy in the family, unfortunately. I’m really proud of my little sister today, though. She found out last night that she has been accepted as a Journeyman with the IMB. She will begin training in August so that she can leave in October to go, to all places, to West Africa. She will be working with Epic Quest to develop an oral Bible for a people group with no Bible. I’m very pumped. She’ll be living in a heavily populated muslim country called Niger (nee-gher) right smack dab in the middle of the desert, with giraffes and lots and lots of camels. I can’t wait for her to experience what we’ve been able to go through. I pray that God blesses her, like he has us, through her time in WA!

with all of the recent postings on my friends blogs (see sidebar) I have recently experienced a bout of nostalgia. I may not have gone to the most prestigious, or wealthy, or popular college in the world, but in my book I went to the best. Between the professors, the classmates, the education, the community, the fact that I met my wife there and much, much more, BCF is a remarkable institution. I know that there are many who might choose to disagree with me, and that’s ok, but for me BCF is a fantastic place and I’m glad to say I’m an alumni. Here’s to BCF!

Dr. Donald Whitney, who has been teaching Spiritual Disciplines at Midwester for many years now, and is one of the most phenomenal writers and thinkers in the area of Spiritual Disciplines out there today, left Midwestern last week to go teach at Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. I certainly understand Dr. Whitney’s pull to Southern, I was accepted there and almost went there myself, but it’s beginning to get frustrating to me that some of the really good theological minds that we’ve had at Midwestern keep leaving and going to “greener pastures.” Last year it was Malcom Yarnell, who has a M.Div from Southwestern, a M.Th. from Duke U. and a Ph.D. from Oxford, who left and went to be the head of the new theological think tank at Southwestern.

I think the frustrating thing for me, and others, is that so many of our teachers preach consistency, tenure, etc. to us and then seem to jump to bigger, better pastures when given the first opportunity. I want badly to stay at my church for years, if God will allow, and grow a powerful work in that place that is currently small. That’s what I’ve been taught, and I think that’s the best route, personally, yet all of our teachers seem to do the opposite. (That is except for the occasional Dr. Lee)

I should say that I’m not bashing these guys that have left because I’m sure that they have listened for God’s voice, but when are we going to find people willing to “stick it out” and watch God move where they’re at, rather than just move on to someplace where God has already worked? No wonder the average tenure for SBC pastors is now around 18 months and no wonder our small SBC churches continue to stay small. Oh well, I guess………………

I’ve been gone for a while, sorry guys! I usually write while I’m at work but I’ve been working in a different area recently and I’ve had no time to write. I’m going to try and be a little better from now on!

I know that a while back we looked into the idea of evolution. I’ve recently encountered a fairly new argument for the existence of an intelligent designer that I have been very impressed by. It’s a concept called ‘Irreducible Complexity.’ It was originally postulated by Lehigh Professor Michael Behe and I think he argues convincingly for the existence of this intelligent designer. I think you ought to check it out for yourself.

Today marks the end of spring practice. It has been an exhilirating few weeks at Florida where my brother, Jared, will be on the sidelines for todays Orange and Blue scrimmage. Get this, they’re expecting over 50,000 people to show up to watch this practice. It’s unbelievable! That’s what happens when you are a dominating football school in a dominant football state. I’m pumped about our upcoming season!

It’s great to be a Florida Gator!

In response to freezer on his blog I need to post and comment that this is an awesome time of the year for sports fans! Sure March Madness just ended and there’s not any football except for spring practice but there are so many good sporting events going on right now. It’s enough to make me giddy! For starters baseball kicked off this past week. I love the Royals and even though everyone’s picking us to be the worst team in MLB this year I know we can make a run at respectablity.

On top of that we’re in the middle of NASCAR season. If you say that NASCAR is boring, you’ve never tried to spend time watching it! The races over the past two weeks have been awesome. Jimmie Johnson is a stud and WILL win the title this year. It’s not the fasting growing sport in America without reason.

Finally the Masters starts today. After watching THE MAN, Phil Mickelson, win it all last year I’m pumped about watching Lefty, Sergio and Tiger slug it out with Ernie and Vijay for the green jacket!

And freezer says there’s no good sports. Sorry man, you’re flat wrong on this count!