i was looking at this picture and thought to myself "so life and growth can happen even in the most unlikely places." (disclaimer i stole this picture from Patrick Mead)

Simple???

This morning in class we were looking at John 6 basically the whole chapter. and the focus today was Jesus as the bread of life and the idea that only through eating his flesh and drinking his blood can we have eternal life. but something hit me today which went right along with Johns sermon in John 6:28-29 those that were listening asked Jesus what are the works that God requires? And his response is simply this. "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent." thats it can it really be that simple? belief in Jesus as the one God has sent is all we are called to do. Abraham is called righteous because he believed. wow can it be that easy. i hope so

7 Random Things plus some other misc stuff

( i filled this out a long time ago and thought i had posted it, but apparently i did not. so here it is) I was tagged so according to blog etiquette i must respond i guess. 7. i think that the pelican is the coolest bird ever. 6. i took 3rd in a knife and tomahawk throwing contest in high school. 5. i beat the original contra game with out dying. 4. the disc golf bag i use was originally one of my wifes purses. 3. my friends and i got stuck on an elevator with thousand foot crutch. 2. my first car was a 69 blue vw bug and it was awesome. 1. i have read C.S. Lewis' "Great Divorce"9 times

Inagural Blog

So it begins, my online journal entitled "a Bald man and his Bear" the Josh Mauldin story. a veiled reference to the fact that im bald and do youth ministry and the similarities between my life and the story of Elisha in 2 Kings

23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. 25 And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria.

Im a mean youth minister