you ever find yourself stumped on a theological issue of sorts…
You now have "Theopedia…(found this on Mark’s blog)
My seminary book-shelve continues to become even more dusty as all of these wonderful web resources keep appearing…hehe
I just finished a day of fasting. Some of our youth participated in the 30 hour famine. It was the fist time in my ministry that I’ve ever encouraged or facilitated an event like this. Although I spewed on some of the event details, our focus was to think about what it meant to be with out. One exercise I was fascinated in watching was the way the kids responded from afar to one of our youth leaders who covered herself with some blankets during a game of "ware wolf." One kid ran by her…head covered and all…smacked her back…kept running…moments later ran by her again…and slipped a $5 bill under her blanket….I kid you not, I watched this…as we talked about it later and as the leader slowly walked into our youth room wrapped up in blankets…the mouths that dropped to the floor…priceless…I didn’t need to say anything else…what I enjoyed most was being with a group mostly made up of crazy wild and fun loving Jr. Highers who are thrilled to be alive…and we get to love them as Jesus loved them…I have the best job in the world…I now know why marko loves Jr. Highers…by the way…my new favorite oldie but goo-die…stolen from an youth specialties idea book (now on CD rom)was three rounds of "pew races"…the sanctuary floor is spotless for worship services in the morning…who says our youth don’t contribute! Anyways…pooped…I’ve now over carbed with the best post-youth event Sacramento carne asada burrito money can buy with my family at…"Adalbertos"….and spent some time at a feeding program our church started last month…which the Lord is overly blessing…I’m ever so grateful that I (even in the midst of learning from the Lord how to live out my faith in Christ as a young pastor)…get to live my life before Jr. Highers…
Last week while I was in Tahoe here I again took a scaled down version of MB. My results…(I,N,F,P)the purpose of the test administered was to see where some of us young pastors where at on the scale…it was one of the many tests I took prior to ordination as a PCUSA pastor…
The test is usually helpful. Although I have a few friends, even my wife who think I fall more on the "E" rather than the "I." I think it’s because of the youth thang I’ve done for a number of years.
Someone did make the comment which makes sense is that some drop their results like their zodiac sign…"so, what’s your MBTI sign?" Maybe this blogging thing is good for the "I" type of pastor…my problem is that my introverted self hurts from all of the reflecting when I try to blog…I usually need a break from the reflecting…and then I’m too tired to remember what I reflected on…anyways…it’s a good test…helpful…somewhat accurate…a good indicator on how many of us function… it would be interesting to see the make-up of whose who when it comes to presonality types…on our church session boards, our youth leader teams, even our pastors of churches…if they took the time to take the test…It might just help in letting people perform where they fit best within in the four walls of the church…the church might actually be who she’s supposed to be…
Drinking some coffee at the local pub…front page news…Milblogging? Military blogs? A new kind of blogging? WOW…
Something I saw last week while in Tahoe...I sure could use this in my back yard…
Mark (the pic is off my pda…not the greatest…but it works) is doing an excellent job leading our retreat for a bunch of us pastors. It’s a great group of pastors from our presbytery. Mark is leading us on a theme of prayer and the psalms based off of his book "No Holds Barred…I had a great morning of just sitting and listening…being quiet…before the Lord…I still love the idea of "bold" prayers to God…if David could do it…why can’t I? God still listens…and God wants my heart…loving the couple days here in Tahoe…(Took this pic of the lake with my PDA at 6:30am this morning…what a place…not bad for a little palm pilot camera) 
Those interested…Check out It Takes a Church and Tod’s live blogging from GodConBlog at Biola University. Wish I could of gone…to far…October for some reason is retreat month…
Going here again for our annual Sacramento Presbytery pastors retreat this next week. Dr. Mark Roberts is leading the retreat. I love Mark. He’s an awesome pastor, teacher, scholar…looking forward to being fed…speaking of Tahoe…rumor has it that it might snow this week…it’s only October…
Doing a wedding Saturday. It will be an interesting wedding…the groom asked me if I’d be okay with folks speaking in tongues…and being all charismatic and stuff…I smiled…
I read something yesterday that my wife I had given to me…must be from God…has to be…
"Peacemakers breathe grace…
Something I don’t do well at all with…something I need to start doing in ministry…phew…
