Ron Paul

(HT to Vox)

This pretty much sums up my feelings on the economy...



Pray for our soldiers...

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Oklahoma vs. Texas (again)

Big game on Saturday. OU plays Texas (at Texas) at 9:00pm EST. OU has Blake Griffin who is probably going to win National Player of the Year this year. Watching him play is kind of like putting me against anybody else on the court - just an unfair comparison, really.

Willie Warren, a rookie guard pictured below, is also a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year. He's the real deal. Watch out U-Conn- Boomer Sooner!

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Worship

I don't know if anybody reads this blog but you would have to be basically dead not to notice the amazing praise and worship music coming out lately. Crowder, Tomlin, Fraser, Brown, Leeland, etc. are really expressing who Christ really is (at least in my opinion) in their songwriting.

This latest song from Tomlin is awesome. If you get a chance, pick up a copy of his new album 'Hello Love'. Here is a song from the album called 'I Will Rise' (get ready OGC, we are singing it this Sunday)...



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Stimulus...

(HT to Gerald Warner) If you summarize the entire US Government's commitments under O'bama's stimulus package along with the commitments made over the last couple of months by the Treasury Secretary and others, here is the grand total:

• $5.5 trillion (yes, TRILLION) to the Federal Reserve to bailout banks
• $1.5 trillion (yes, TRILLION) to the FDIC
• $947 billion (only billion) to the Treasury
• $300 billion (only billion) to the Federal Housing Administration

Total: $8.34 TRILLION by 2017 (BTW-the total government deficit under the 6 years of the Bush administration was $3.35 trillion).

ASTERISK:

The $8.34 trillion deficit does NOT include the cost of nationalising Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which will cost an estimated $5 trillion, running up the sum to a meager $13.4 trillion deficit.

The gulp/gasp that you hear is the vacuous sound of my wallet when I open it up after pay day...

Moral of the story: Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save. When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them—the LORD, who remains faithful forever. (Psalm 146:3-6)

Blurbs

Sorry its been awhile since blogging but business has been incredibly busy. I am reminded of times in the past where life hasn't been so hectic and am sorry to say that it appears that they are forever gone.

For all the husbands reading this, please make sure to get something nice for your wife or take her out to dinner on the 14th (Valentines Day, remember?- that means you, Ben).

Congratulations are in order for my good friends Kent and Heather Johnson on the birth of their daughter, Evelyn Mae Johnson. I was at the hospital yesterday and it was really neat to see the joy in their faces. For those who think that God is not in the miracle business, just ask Kent...

I am consumed with work- more to come later...

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Discussion and Prayer

I love the bible study we are currently doing in Acts right now. It makes me aware of the responsibility that each of us have to not only own the faith that we have, but to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

Prayer request: Please pray for a friend of mine, Sara. She has contracted skin cancer (stage 4). She has 5 children and her husband is a close personal friend. Please pray that God would provide peace and comfort through her treatment for her and her family and that she would experience joy through this trial.

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Excerpt from a SuperBowl Weekend

(From an email by Heidi)
My boys invented a new game on Monday evening called basketball-football. The game is fairly simple – you try to shoot a basketball while the other tackles you. The game ended poorly for Jalen. I spent Monday evening at the hospital, after Jalen suffered a concussion. It was pretty clear that something was wrong after the 40th time he asked “Where are my shoes” and “Where am I?” Each time he asked the question as if he was asking it for the very first time. The doctor said he may not ever remember his first and last game of “basketball-football,” but he should recover most of his short-term memory in 3-4 days.

Kind of a funny ending to this story though. We get him home from the hospital and tell him to go brush his teeth. We check on him a minute later as he is lying in bed and ask him “Did you brush your teeth?” Of course he responds “I forgot.”

Coincidentally, Jalen can’t remember the SuperBowl party we hosted on Sunday – a party that, at the beginning, I wish I could also forget. Heidi was making homemade pizzas, and our oven chooses to conk out while she was preheating it. We have some great neighbors who were kind enough to bake about 10 pizzas for us. So the partiers were well fed, even if the effort was stressful to say the least.

Since this blog was Jalen-intensive, I feel compelled to say a few words about Hunter. He was explaining to me tonight that the sun has not yet reached its half-life. When it does, the heat will be too intense for us to bear … so we’ll have to live on another planet for a while. But he concluded in saying that we personally wouldn’t have to worry about the sun’s half life, as it won’t be reached until 2.3 million years from now (or something like that … I dozed off in the middle when he started talking about red stars …). Then, the rest of his conversation was focused on the 2nd coming of Christ. He wanted to know if Christ will get as much publicity as Obama...

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